🔥 The Week in AI News - November 10 - 14
- Corey Tate
- Nov 14
- 4 min read
This week in AI news: Apple & privacy, Google NotebookLM, Google Shopping AI, Spotify, LinkedIn, Elevenlabs, Google Photos AI, PDF audio AI, Gemini on Google TV, Robyn companion chatbot, people are loving Lovable, Google Maps AI, Anthropic and more.
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▪️Apple Tightened The Rules On Apps That Hand Off Your Data To Third-Party AIThe new App Review guidelines force developers to justify any AI data-sharing and get explicit user permission, signaling that Apple wants tighter guardrails around how apps plug into external models.
▪️Google Turned NotebookLM Into A True Research Partner With Gemini-Powered ReasoningThe update lets users ask broader, more complex research questions and get structured, source-aware answers that feel closer to a collaborative analyst than a note-taking app.
▪️Google Turned Search Into A Personal Shopper With Conversational AI And Agentic CheckoutGoogle is rolling out AI Mode in Search and new Gemini shopping tools that can chat through product decisions, track prices, auto-checkout with Google Pay, and even call local stores to check stock for you.
▪️Spotify Added AI Recaps So Audiobooks Feel More Like TV EpisodesA new Recaps button on Spotify uses AI to summarize what you’ve already listened to so you can jump back into an audiobook without rewinding or losing the thread.
▪️LinkedIn Turned People Search Into A Natural Language Power ToolPremium users in the U.S. can now type queries like “find me investors in healthcare with FDA experience” and let LinkedIn’s AI do the sorting instead of wrestling with filters.
▪️ElevenLabs Signed Celebrity Voices As AI Audio Goes Fully MainstreamIts new marketplace lets advertisers and creators legally license AI versions of celebrity and creator voices, complete with usage guardrails.
▪️Google Photos On iPhone Now Lets You Say The Edit You Want And Handles The RestThe “Help me edit” update turns plain-language prompts into multi-step photo edits, bringing Google’s AI photo tools to people who live on iOS.
▪️ Google Drive Now Gives You AI Audio Overviews So PDFs Can Talk To YouWorkspace users can generate short audio rundowns of long PDFs, making dense documents something you can listen to while moving through your day.
▪️Gemini Lands On Google TV And Makes Your Remote A Little Smarter.Google’s streaming device now uses Gemini for conversational search, recommendations, and cross-app discovery powered by voice.
▪️Robyn Wants To Be The “Feel Seen” AI Companion, Not Just Another ChatbotBuilt by a former physician, Robyn leans into empathetic conversation, mood reflection, and gentle prompts for emotional support.
▪️DeepMind’s SIMA 2 is a Video Game-Playing AssistantThe new version trains across many commercial games and transfers skills between them, signaling a future of game-savvy agents that learn once and apply everywhere.
▪️Lovable Is Closing In On 8 Million Users As Its “Build An App In Plain English” Pitch Takes OffTeams are using Lovable’s natural-language app builder to ship prototypes and internal tools fast, right at the intersection of no-code and AI-assisted dev.
▪️Google Maps Lets You Turn Custom Maps Into an AI-Assisted Interactive ProjectNew generative tools let you pull locations, notes, and media into structured maps for trip planning, neighborhood guides, or class projects.
▪️Google’s Shopping AI Now Lets You Chat, Call Stores, And Auto-Checkout In One FlowPowered by Gemini and the Shopping Graph, Google is fusing conversational shopping, AI phone calls, and agentic checkout into a single experience.
▪️Anthropic Dropped A $50 Billion Card On US Data Centers To Power Its Next-Gen ModelsA massive partnership will build custom facilities across multiple states so Anthropic has the dedicated compute runway to train frontier models.
▪️Google Unveiled Private AI Compute As Its Privacy-First Cloud For Gemini WorkloadsThis new system routes sensitive Gemini tasks through hardware-isolated, encrypted environments so users get power without sacrificing privacy.
▪️A China-Linked Hacker Crew Tried To Crack Anthropic’s Internal Systems. They Failed.U.S. officials say state-aligned attackers attempted to access Anthropic’s infrastructure, underscoring how frontier-model companies are becoming geopolitical targets.
▪️Mozilla is Experimenting With Firefox AI Window, A Smarter Sidebar For People Who Multitask.Early builds show a lightweight AI assistant that lives inside the browser, able to summarize pages, reason over long articles, and help you act on whatever you’re researching without breaking your flow.
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