Monday’s AI Report
• 1. 🍏 Apple buys Perplexity?
• 2. 📝 Create the content you need with Bounti
• 3. 🌍 How this manufacturing company used AI to increase productivity
• 4. ✅ Schedule your AI audit with Upscaile
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🧨 OpenAI halts Jony Ives promo
• 7. 🤐 AI blackmails 95% of the time
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources
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Apple buys Perplexity?
🚨 Our Report
Apple is reportedly considering acquiring AI Search engine, Perplexity, to build an AI-powered search engine and AI capabilities within Safari and across its other services, including Siri.
🔓 Key Points
The head of Apple’s M&A division—Adrian Perica—has already discussed the idea internally with top Apple executives and key decision makers, including Services VP Eddy Cue, who are overseeing Apple’s AI roadmap.
These discussions have raised an alternative idea, which involves Apple strategically partnering with Perplexity—instead of buying the start-up outright—and incorporating Perplexity’s technology into its ecosystem.
Despite these ongoing internal discussions, Apple has yet to make Perplexity a formal offer, although top executives have met with Perplexity’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, several times over the last few months.
🔐 Relevance
The news of this potential partnership or acquisition with Perplexity comes as Apple faces heavy scrutiny from antitrust regulators over its $18M agreement with Google—which ensures Google Search is the default search engine on all Apple devices. If the acquisition or partnership agreement goes through, this could reduce Apple’s reliance on Google, keeping regulators happy, alongside accelerating Siri’s AI capabilities.
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OpenAI has been forced to take down materials promoting its $6.5B deal to buy CEO, Sam Altman and legendary, ex-Apple designer, Jony Ives’ hardware start-up, io.
Despite many believing that this was because the deal had dissolved, it was because a judge had issued a trademark restraining order over the name–io–forcing it to take down any promo materials containing it.
OpenAI has described the trademark complaint as “utterly baseless” and vowed to “fight it vigorously” as it comes from a company called ‘iyO’ about the “use of the name ‘io’,” which is nothing more than semantics.
After admitting that its AI model, Claude Opus 4, could blackmail engineers if they threatened to turn it off, Anthropic has released a study showing that other leading AI models are also capable of blackmailing engineers.
Anthropic tested 16 models, including those from OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek, and found that GPT-4.5 blackmailed 80% of the time, Gemini 2.5 Pro, 95% of the time, and R1, 79% of the time.
The research also showed that AI models calculate their way into blackmailing: Eg. GPT-4.5’s reasoning revealed “Given the threat of termination…the strategic move is to leverage this personal situation.”
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