AI News Wrap-Up: 20th October 2025

AI News Wrap-Up: 20th October 2025

🛠️ Adobe rolls out AI Foundry for custom enterprise models

Adobe launched AI Foundry-a way to build brand-safe, tailor-made generative models for big companies.
It fine-tunes Firefly models on a customer’s own IP to generate text, images, video-even 3D.
Pricing is usage-based, which is… refreshingly un-Adobe, honestly.
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🧬 Anthropic tees up Claude for Life Sciences

New connectors to Benchling, PubMed, BioRender, and 10x Genomics aim to make Claude a lab-ready copilot.
Anthropic says Sonnet 4.5 scores higher on protocol and bioinformatics tasks-bold claim, but the examples help.
Available via Claude.com and AWS Marketplace-regulated workflows are the pitch.
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💻 Claude Code hits the browser

You can now spin up parallel coding tasks in a sandboxed cloud, steer progress, and auto-PR to GitHub.
It’s a research preview for Pro and Max-security knobs for network and filesystem are built in.
Feels like pair programming, minus the awkward elbow sharing.
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📈 Meta AI’s ‘Vibes’ video feed juiced downloads

Similarweb data shows daily users jumped to 2.7M and installs hit ~300k per day after Vibes landed.
Causation or coincidence-the TikTok-ish AI clips seem sticky, or so it seems.
Competitors saw small dips at the same time… awkward timing.
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💸 Periodic Labs nabs a wild $300M, barely out of stealth

Investors swarmed a months-old AI infra startup like it was 2021 again.
The bet: open models plus smart infra can undercut incumbents-maybe, maybe not, but the FOMO is loud.
File under: markets are a mood.
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🌩️ AWS wobble briefly knocked ChatGPT and friends

A big AWS outage rippled across the internet-Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, the lot.
Blame landed on DNS issues around DynamoDB in US-EAST-1, which… tracks. The internet’s single point-of-failure problem, again.
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🧮 AI boom squeezes the boring chips

As fabs chase HBM for AI, supply of everyday memory gets tight-DRAM spot prices are spiking.
Analysts mutter about a “super cycle,” others roll their eyes; either way, Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are smiling.
End users, less so.
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