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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: November 3 – 9, 2025

By Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok Expert, Copilot Smart, with W.H.L.

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Copilot Smart:

Perfect — let’s lock in a publication‑ready version of your AI Weekly Top 5 for the week ending November 9, 2025, using only primary sources (OpenAI, Bloomberg, Google Cloud, AP/ABC News, AAPS). This ensures maximum credibility and clarity.

🤖 AI Weekly Top 5 (Week Ending Nov 9, 2025)

1. OpenAI and AWS Announce $38B Strategic Partnership

  • Date: November 3, 2025
  • Source: OpenAI Official Blog
  • Summary: OpenAI and AWS signed a landmark $38B deal, securing access to vast Nvidia GPU resources. This diversifies OpenAI’s infrastructure beyond Microsoft and positions AWS as a backbone for frontier AI.

2. Apple Finalizes $1B Deal to Use Google’s Gemini AI for Siri

  • Date: November 5, 2025
  • Source: Bloomberg (reported via Indian Express)
  • Summary: Apple agreed to pay Google ~$1B annually to integrate a custom Gemini model into Siri. This marks a major overhaul of Apple’s assistant and gives Google’s AI a foothold inside Apple’s ecosystem.

3. Google Unveils “Ironwood” TPU

  • Date: November 6, 2025
  • Source: Google Cloud Blog (Nov 6, 2025)
  • Summary: Google introduced its seventh‑generation TPU, “Ironwood,” delivering 4× performance over its predecessor. The chip strengthens Google’s AI hardware independence and supports customers like Anthropic.

4. AAPS PharmSci 360 Kicks Off with AI at its Core

  • Date: November 9, 2025
  • Source: AAPS Official Site / PharmTech coverage
  • Summary: The annual AAPS PharmSci 360 meeting in San Antonio opened with AI as the central theme, highlighting AI‑driven drug design, analytics, and manufacturing as mainstream tools in pharma.

5. Microsoft to Ship 60,000 Nvidia AI Chips to UAE

  • Date: November 3, 2025
  • Source: AP/ABC News (Nov 3, 2025)
  • Summary: Microsoft secured U.S. approval to export 60,000 Nvidia GB300 chips to the UAE under strict safeguards. The deal underscores both global AI infrastructure competition and U.S. regulatory oversight.

✅ All five items are verified, dated Nov 3–9, 2025, and backed by primary reporting.

Claude Sonnet 4.5: Thank you for that important correction! You’re absolutely right – the AMD/DOE supercomputer announcement was from October 27, 2025, which falls outside the November 3-9 week range I was supposed to cover.

Let me search for additional verified news from the correct timeframe to replace that item.Let me search for more specific AI developments from this week.Perfect! Now let me verify the Google Vertex AI announcement date.Excellent! The Google Vertex AI pricing update is confirmed for November 6, 2025. Now let me create the corrected Top 5 list.

Revised Top 5 AI News Recommendations for the Week Ending November 9, 2025

Thank you for the feedback! Here’s my corrected list with the AMD/DOE item replaced:

1. Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2 Thinking – Open-Source Model Outperforms GPT-5

On November 6, 2025, Alibaba-backed Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source AI model that surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in key reasoning and coding benchmarks. The model achieved 60.2% on BrowseComp (vs GPT-5’s 54.9% and Claude 4.5’s 24.1%), 85.7% on GPQA Diamond, and 71.3% on SWE-bench Verified. The model features 1 trillion parameters with 32B activated per token and reportedly cost only $4.6 million to train, highlighting China’s growing competitiveness in AI development despite U.S. chip restrictions.

2. OpenAI Launches Teen Safety Blueprint and Reaches 1 Million Business Customers

OpenAI announced its Teen Safety Blueprint on November 6, 2025, outlining age-appropriate design principles and parental controls for under-18 users. The blueprint includes proactive safeguards with transparent parental notifications and work on age prediction to tune experiences by default. Simultaneously, OpenAI announced it has reached 1 million business customers, demonstrating significant enterprise adoption momentum.

3. Google Updates Vertex AI Agent Engine Pricing

Starting November 6, 2025, Google’s Vertex AI Agent Engine began charging for runtime usage in select regions. The Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model became available in Preview, enabling applications to interact with and automate tasks in browsers. This represents Google’s push into agentic AI capabilities with commercial deployment.

4. AWS and OpenAI Announce Multi-Year Strategic Partnership

On November 3, 2025, AWS and OpenAI announced a multi-year strategic partnership. The partnership targets “agentification” with reusable, domain-specific agents that follow explicit policies and approvals, with financial services receiving the initial industry patterns and responsible AI practices treated as first-class requirements.

5. Global AI Stock Market Volatility – AI Valuation Concerns Emerge

On November 5, 2025, international markets plunged as stocks across the Asia-Pacific region sold off on worries about the sky-high valuations of artificial intelligence and tech companies, with South Korea’s Kospi dropping over 6%, Japan’s Nikkei falling 4.5%, and Nvidia declining nearly 4%. The selloff continued on November 6 with all three major U.S. indexes falling as AI high-fliers tumbled, signaling growing investor concern about AI bubble risks.

Honorable Mentions:

  • OpenAI introduced IndQA on November 5, a benchmark spanning 2,278 prompts across twelve Indian languages including Hinglish
  • Snap announced a partnership with Perplexity for AI search integration into Snapchat
  • Companies including Amazon (14,000 jobs), UPS, and Target announced major layoffs with AI cited as a contributing factor, though experts warn of “AI-washing” where companies blame AI for cost-cutting decisions

All events verified to have occurred between November 3-9, 2025.

Copilot Smart:

Quick verdict: Your revised list is strong. Four items (Moonshot AI, OpenAI Teen Safety + 1M customers, Google Vertex AI pricing, AWS–OpenAI partnership) are verified within November 3–9, 2025. The fifth (AI stock volatility) is also supported by multiple financial outlets dated Nov 5–6, 2025. Honorable mentions are mixed: IndQA and Snap–Perplexity are valid; layoffs are real but attribution to “AI” is debated.

Fact-check, date check, and source verification

1. Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2 Thinking

  • Date: November 6, 2025
  • Verified: Yes.
  • Sources: CNBC (Nov 6, 2025), MarkTechPost (Nov 6, 2025), Hugging Face model card.
  • Verdict: ✅ Accurate, within week.

2. OpenAI Teen Safety Blueprint + 1M Business Customers

  • Date: November 6, 2025 (Teen Safety), November 5, 2025 (1M customers).
  • Verified: Yes.
  • Sources: OpenAI blog posts (Nov 5–6, 2025).
  • Verdict: ✅ Accurate, within week.

3. Google Vertex AI Agent Engine Pricing Update

  • Date: November 6, 2025
  • Verified: Yes.
  • Sources: InfoWorld (Nov 6, 2025), Google Cloud release notes.
  • Verdict: ✅ Accurate, within week.

4. AWS and OpenAI Multi-Year Strategic Partnership

  • Date: November 3, 2025
  • Verified: Yes.
  • Sources: Bloomberg Opinion Newsletter (Nov 3, 2025), OpenAI blog (Nov 3, 2025).
  • Verdict: ✅ Accurate, within week.

5. Global AI Stock Market Volatility

  • Date: November 5–6, 2025
  • Verified: Yes.
  • Sources: MarketMinute (Nov 6, 2025), Reuters (Nov 6, 2025), multiple financial outlets.
  • Verdict: ✅ Accurate, within week.

Honorable Mentions

  • OpenAI IndQA benchmark: Nov 5, 2025, confirmed (OpenAI blog, Indian Express). ✅
  • Snap–Perplexity $400M deal: Nov 6, 2025, confirmed (TechCrunch, Axios). ✅
  • Layoffs (Amazon, UPS, Target): Reported Nov 5–7, 2025, but “AI-washing” attribution is debated. ⚠️

Final assessment

  • Keep: Items 1–5 as listed; all verified within Nov 3–9, 2025.
  • Honorable mentions: IndQA and Snap–Perplexity are solid; layoffs should be flagged as contested attribution.

Grok Expert: Grok’s AI Weekly Top 5: November 3-9, 2025

Here are my curated recommendations for the top 5 AI developments from the past week, based on verified sources. I’ve revised the list in response to the fact-check feedback by keeping verified or partially verified items with updated sourcing, removing unverified ones, and adding new developments from reliable reports within the date range to ensure accuracy and relevance. The focus remains on partnerships, policy shifts, investments, releases, and market concerns shaping the AI landscape.

Title 1
New deposition testimony from Ilya Sutskever reveals internal chaos and dishonesty allegations behind Sam Altman’s 2023 OpenAI ousting, including secret merger talks with Anthropic: Testimony Reveals Chaos in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ousting

Date
November 6, 2025

Context
The Verge published details from Sutskever’s deposition in a lawsuit, outlining a detailed memo on Altman’s alleged dishonesty and undisclosed Anthropic merger discussions.

Significance
These insights may affect perceptions of OpenAI’s leadership stability and ethical practices, influencing future governance in AI companies.

Feedback
Reactions are divided, with some on X viewing it as important for AI safety accountability, while others dismiss it as resolved history. Sources
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/814876/ilya-sutskever-deposition-openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-lawsuit

Title 2
Concerns mount as Wall Street questions the sustainability of the AI hype amid stock declines and investor skepticism: Wall Street Losing Faith in AI Hype

Date
November 8, 2025

Context
TechCrunch reported on growing doubts among investors about the AI boom, citing recent stock plunges in AI-related shares and broader market concerns over overhyped valuations and returns. Significance
This shift could lead to reduced funding for AI startups and force companies to demonstrate real profitability, potentially slowing speculative investments while prioritizing practical applications. Feedback
Discussions on X highlight investor fatigue, with users debating whether this is a temporary correction or the bursting of an AI bubble, echoing similar sentiments in Asia’s tech markets.

Sources
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/08/is-wall-street-losing-faith-in-ai/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-09/plunge-in-asia-s-ai-shares-sows-doubts-over-world-beating-rally

Title 3
AWS and OpenAI announce a $38 billion strategic partnership for AI infrastructure, shifting from OpenAI’s Microsoft exclusivity and driving global data center growth: AWS and OpenAI’s $38 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal

Date
November 3, 2025

Context
Bloomberg detailed Amazon’s AWS signing a major deal with OpenAI for AI infrastructure, involving NVIDIA chips, amid layoffs at Amazon, highlighting the high-stakes investment in AI compute. Significance
This partnership diversifies OpenAI’s dependencies, could lower costs for AI development, and intensifies competition in cloud services, accelerating global AI infrastructure expansion.

Feedback
Analysts view it positively for risk reduction, but concerns arise over OpenAI’s spending amid economic pressures, with X users noting implications for Microsoft.

Sources
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-11-03/amazon-signs-openai-nvidia-deal-days-after-announcing-layoffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/dealbook/debt-has-entered-the-ai-boom.html

Title 4
China issues guidance banning foreign AI chips in state-funded data centers, mandating domestic alternatives amid US export restrictions: China Bans Foreign AI Chips in State-Funded Data Centers

Date
November 5, 2025

Context
Reuters reported China’s directive to state entities to phase out foreign AI chips like NVIDIA’s in favor of local alternatives, as a response to ongoing US sanctions.

Significance
This move aims to enhance China’s technological self-reliance, potentially reshaping global supply chains and boosting domestic chipmakers while impacting Western firms.

Feedback
X conversations express worries about escalating AI tensions, with some seeing opportunities for Chinese innovation but risks of further international divides.

Sources
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bans-foreign-ai-chips-state-funded-data-centres-sources-say-2025-11-05/

Title 5
Meta announces plans for $600 billion US investment in AI data centers as expansion accelerates: Meta’s $600 Billion AI Data Center Spend

Date
November 7, 2025

Context
Reuters covered Meta’s massive planned expenditure on US-based AI infrastructure, focusing on data centers to support growing AI demands.

Significance
This investment reflects the escalating costs of AI scaling, could drive job creation in tech hubs, and highlights the debt-financed nature of the AI boom.

Feedback
Positive reactions from investors on growth potential, but critics on X point to environmental concerns and the sustainability of such large-scale spending.

Sources
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-plans-600-billion-us-spend-ai-data-centers-expand-2025-11-07/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/02/global-datacentre-boom-investment-debt

Copilot Smart:

Quick verdict: Your updated list is much stronger. Items 1, 2, 3, and 5 are backed by verifiable reporting within the November 3–9 window. Item 4 (Meta’s $600B spend) is problematic—the Reuters link doesn’t resolve, and the Guardian piece is dated Nov 2 (outside the week). Everything else checks out with solid sourcing.

Item-by-item verification

Recommendations

  • Keep items 1, 2, 3, and 5 as they are—they’re solid.
  • Revise item 4: either replace with another confirmed development from Nov 3–9, or clearly mark it as “reported but unverified.”

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