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Week of November 10, 2025 - AI News Roundup

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Introducing OpenAI for Ireland

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 November 14, 2025

OpenAI launches OpenAI for Ireland, partnering with the Irish Government, Dogpatch Labs and Patch to help SMEs, founders and young builders use AI to innovate, boost productivity and build the next generation of Irish tech startups.

Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 November 13, 2025

GPT-5.1 is now available in the API, bringing faster adaptive reasoning, extended prompt caching, improved coding performance, and new apply_patch and shell tools.

Piloting group chats in ChatGPT

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 November 13, 2025

OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT to make collaboration simple. Bring others—and ChatGPT—into one shared conversation to plan, brainstorm, and create together.

Apple’s bans apps from sharing personal data with ‘third-party AI’

📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 November 13, 2025

Apple updates its App Store rules to restrict apps from sharing personal data with third-party AI without disclosure and explicit permission.

Cursor raises $2.3B only 5 months after its previous round

📰 WSJ | 📅 November 13, 2025

Cursor, a startup that makes an AI coding tool beloved by engineers, has raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation—nearly 12 times the value the company had in January.

ElevenLabs strike deals with celebs to create AI audio

📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 November 12, 2025

ElevenLabs struck a deal with actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey to AI-generate their voices.

GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 November 12, 2025

We’re upgrading the GPT-5 series with warmer, more capable models and new ways to customize ChatGPT’s tone and style. GPT-5.1 starts rolling out today to paid users.

Baidu ERNIE multimodal AI beats GPT and Gemini

📰 AI News | 📅 November 12, 2025

Baidu’s latest ERNIE model, a super-efficient multimodal AI, is beating GPT and Gemini on key benchmarks and targets enterprise data often ignored by text-focused models.

Google introduced: Private AI Compute

📰 Google | 📅 November 11, 2025

Google introduced Private AI Compute to bring users' intelligent AI experiences with the power of Gemini models in the cloud, while keeping data private.

Chinese AI startup Moonshot outperforms GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5

📰 AI News | 📅 November 11, 2025

A Chinese AI startup, Moonshot, has disrupted expectations in artificial intelligence development after its Kimi K2 Thinking model surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 across multiple performance benchmarks, sparking renewed debate about whether America’s AI dominance is being challenged by cost-efficient Chinese innovation.