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What's Up in AI
November 17, 2025
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If your holiday shopping stresses you out, Google’s new AI features are basically a gift: they can search, compare, call, track, and even buy things for you. Meanwhile, hot tea on leaked bills of Chatgpt.
Two headlines. One is retail therapy. The other is the therapy bill.
In today’s issue:
🤯 Gemini Will Now Do Your Christmas Shopping
📈 OpenAI’s Cloud Bill of Microsoft Explodes
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
📰 What Else Happened in AI
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh
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#1 LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
What Happened (Nov 13–14, 2025) :
Google launched a set of AI-powered shopping features just ahead of the 2025 holiday season: integrating its Gemini model into Search’s “AI Mode” and the Gemini app, enabling voice-calls to stores, price-tracking, and an “agentic checkout” that can complete purchases using Google Pay.
What You Need to Know:
Conversational shopping: users can describe what they want (“grey sweater under ₹5,000 for men”) and get curated results from a database of over 50 billion listings.
“Let Google Call” feature: the AI agent can call local stores to check availability and promos, then send you a summary.
Agentic checkout: set criteria (item, size, price threshold), and Google can buy it automatically via Google Pay when conditions are met.
Retailers participating include Wayfair, Chewy, and select Shopify merchants in U.S. now.
Google emphasises the rollout begins in the U.S., with global expansion and more merchants planned.
Why It Matters:
By enabling AI to handle search, comparison, stock check and even checkout, Google shifts shopping from discovery to action. For retailers and brands, this means optimizing for AI visibility and conversion — not just website clicks.
#2 LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
What Happened (Nov 14, 2025):
Leaked financial documents show just how much OpenAI is paying Microsoft—and how expensive running ChatGPT has become. Microsoft earned $493.8M from OpenAI in 2024, but in just the first three quarters of 2025 that number surged to $865.8M, reflecting skyrocketing compute usage.
What You Need to Know:
OpenAI’s revenue is projected to exceed $20B annualized by end of 2025.
But inference costs alone hit $8.65B in the first nine months of this year.
Spending is spread across Azure, CoreWeave, Oracle, AWS, and Google Cloud.
This multi-cloud footprint shows OpenAI may be running in the red just to keep its models online.
Experts say 5.1 and Sora 2 have massively increased inference load, pushing compute demand to historic levels.
Why It Matters:
OpenAI may be the fastest-growing AI company in history, but its operating costs are scaling even faster. With inference bills rising toward tens of billions annually, profitability becomes a question of compute efficiency—not user growth.
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QUICK HITS 💥
It’s time for some quick hits that you’ll love. Let’s go in…..5-4-3-2-1 👇️
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3-THINGS IN TREND
Today’s viral animal videos feature Whiskers the poker player.
This amazing Coca Cola ad made by ai will blow your mind off!
A new video shows two Tesla Optimus humanoid robots performing a really cool dance in a synchronized way(and guess what, they did not fall).
2-USEFUL LINKS
A Düsseldorf supermarket is now home to the world’s first autonomous in-store kitchen, built by Munich startup Circus SE. The CA-1 Series 4 robot runs the entire operation end-to-end — grabbing ingredients, cooking dishes, plating them, and even cleaning up afterward. It pumps out up to 120 restaurant-quality meals per hour, no breaks, no sick days, no staffing headaches… just nonstop automated cuisine.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
💹 Baidu Releases ERNIE 5 + Self-Evolving Agent Famou
Baidu unveiled its omni-modal ERNIE 5 and a “self-evolving” AI agent called Famou at Baidu World 2025.
🧑💻 LM Arena Launches Code Arena for Live Coding Evaluation
Code Arena tests AI agents in real-time app development—from planning to debugging—with full developer feedback.
💥 Google Launches Deep Research in NotebookLM
Google adds Deep Research to NotebookLM, with support for Sheets, PDFs, Word docs, and images.
🙀 H Company Unveils Holo2 Lightweight Models
Holo2, a new series of cost-efficient AI models, powers agents optimized for visual reasoning and UI interaction.
😀 Disney Exploring AI Video Tools for Disney+
Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is considering AI-generated short-form video tools for its Disney+ platform.
Funding 💰️
Cursor raises $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation.
Parallel Web Systems raises $100 million to build a web that’s better suited for AI agents. The startup is run by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.
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