🗞️In this edition

• •Apple builds ChatGPT-style answer engine 

• •Workflow Wednesday #30 ‘Best-Of-Edition’

• •Publishers struggle with AI search shift

• • In other AI news –

  • •Nvidia regains China access but loses market share

  • •Big Tech’s AI spend hits $155B in 2025

  • •DeepMind CEO says AI Revolution will surpass Industrial Revolution

• • 4 must-try AI tools

Apple steps into AI search with new ChatGPT-style Answer Engine 

♨️News – Apple has formed a new team to build its own answer engine, a move that signals its long-overdue push into generative AI search. The project aims to reduce Apple’s reliance on Google and improve Siri’s weak performance in handling queries. 

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• Apple Intelligence currently lacks any real search function and defers many questions to ChatGPT or Google.

• The new AKI (Answers, Knowledge and Information) team is led by Robby Walker, a former Siri exec.

• A standalone answer engine app and improved backend infrastructure are now in development.

• The move comes as DOJ may force changes to Apple’s $20B-a-year deal with Google, threatening a key revenue stream.

• Meanwhile, Apple also is exploring partnerships, including with Perplexity.

🤓OpenTools POV –  Apple’s slow move into AI-powered search shows just how disruptive ChatGPT has been. With its Google deal under threat and Siri lagging, Apple’s hand is finally being forced.  

This Week in Workflow Wednesday #30: AI Best-Of-Edition

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AI summaries are cutting into publisher traffic and revenue 

☕News –  Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are eating into traditional search traffic, costing news publishers valuable clicks, ad revenue, and subscriptions. As AI-generated summaries increasingly answer users’ questions directly, media outlets are left scrambling to adapt before they’re pushed out of the discovery ecosystem altogether. 

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• AI summaries in Google search cut click-through rates by about half.

• Publishers are losing ad revenue and subscription leads due to declining traffic.

• Some media outlets, like Boston Globe, are seeing limited subscriptions via ChatGPT.

• Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) is emerging as a survival tactic, replacing SEO.

• 15% of under-25s now use generative AI as a news source, raising credibility concerns.

🤓OpenTools POV – This shift isn’t just about algorithms, it’s about who controls access to trustworthy information. As AI becomes the new front page of the internet, publishers need to rethink not just how they're found, but how they're valued. 

🙆🏻‍♀️What else is happening?

• Nvidia’s set to regain some China access. But it still faces eroding AI chip market share // Despite Nvidia receiving assurances it can resume sales of H20 chips to China, Bernstein predicts that the company’s market share in the country will fall to 54% in 2025, from 66% the year before

• Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more // Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far

• Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’ // The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’

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