Top249: Issue 3

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June 10, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

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AI & Tech Frontier

  • Apple unveiled iOS 26 with a stunning new “Liquid Glass” design, introducing translucent interface elements, redesigned lock screens, updated Camera and Phone apps, and floating Safari toolbars.

  • The update brings major improvements in AI and communication, including on-device Live Translation during calls, enhanced group messaging features like polls and custom backgrounds, and creative tools like Genmoji and Image Playground.

  • Apple is aligning all its operating systems with the release year (iOS 26, macOS 26, etc.) and introducing features like adaptive battery mode, a new centralized Games app, and smarter AI-powered tools like Visual Intelligence and upgraded Shortcuts.

  • Google DeepMind has launched SynthID Detector, a free tool that helps identify whether an image or text was generated by AI, even if it's been edited.

  • The tool works by detecting invisible watermarks and analyzing patterns that are characteristic of synthetic media.

  • SynthID supports image formats from tools like Imagen and text from Gemini, aiming to promote transparency and responsible AI usage.

  • China’s release of the Manus AI agent in March sparked a rapid surge in the development and adoption of agentic AI across the country.

  • Startups like Genspark and Flowith are competing with innovative features such as multi-agent coordination and interactive, branching knowledge tools.

  • This momentum is part of China’s larger AI strategy, blending strong government support, powerful domestic models like Alibaba’s Qwen, and ambitions to lead globally in AI innovation.

Business Briefs

  • OpenAI has reached a $10 billion annual recurring revenue run rate as of June 2025—nearly double the $5.5 billion it recorded in December 2024.

  • Growth is driven by surging global adoption of ChatGPT, including consumer and business subscriptions, alongside API usage; the company now has around 500 million weekly active users.

  • Despite a $5 billion loss last year, OpenAI is on track to hit its $12.7 billion revenue target for 2025 and is planning a landmark $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank at a $300 billion valuation.

Hidden Gems / Learn & Grow

  • These books are worth a glance. Most of them are timeless classics

  • A course for beginners by MIT on Deep Learning

Did You Know? Modern AI models like GPT-4o can process text, images, and audio simultaneously—a capability known as multimodal AI. This allows them to, for example, analyse a photo, understand spoken instructions, and generate a written summary—all in one seamless interaction. It's a major step toward human-like digital assistants.

Till next time.