Willow Delivers Verifiable Speedup. ChatGPT Replaces Office Search. Lightricks LTX-2 Challenges Giants. Anthropic Expands Google TPU Access.

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The AI news for October 25th, 2025

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13,000 times faster: Google's Quantum Triumph
Source: https://www.all-ai.de/news/topbeitraege/quantencomputer-google-willow
Why did we choose this article?
Verifizierbarer Quantenvorteil mit konkretem Anwendungsfall: diese Nature-veröffentlichte Arbeit (Quantum Echoes auf dem Willow-Chip) ist ein glaubwürdiger, reproduzierbarer Schritt Richtung praktische Quantenanwendungen — wichtig für Strategien in Pharma, Materialforschung und KI-Forschung.

ChatGPT replaces Google search in the office.
Source: https://www.all-ai.de/news/top-news24/chatgpt-company-knowledge
Why did we choose this article?
Enterprise impact: centralizing internal search in ChatGPT changes workflows and vendor dynamics (competes with Copilot). Practical trade-off — big productivity gains vs. risks from hallucinated citations ('Workslop') that teams must mitigate with verification and governance.

Is Lightricks LTX-2 better than Sora 2?
Source: https://www.all-ai.de/news/top-news24/ltx-2-ki-video
Why did we choose this article?
Practical and strategic: an open-source 4K/50fps multimodal video model that runs on consumer GPUs changes the creator economics and competitive landscape — worth testing for teams building video workflows or evaluating model risk and provenance.

Anthropic plans to deploy up to one million Google AI chips by 2026.
Source: https://the-decoder.de/anthropic-plant-einsatz-von-bis-zu-einer-million-google-ki-chips-bis-2026/
Why did we choose this article?
Signals a major compute arms race: Anthropic's plan for up to 1M TPUs by 2026 has big implications for model scale, training cadence, costs and competitive dynamics between cloud providers and AI vendors — important for strategy and capacity planning.

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