Are search engines dead?

GenAI gets $$$

Welcome back! The robot vacuum is getting a major upgrade thanks to AI. It’s not just scrubbing your floors—it’s mapping your home, tracking your habits, and soon, it might be chatting back. Will it make a snide comment about how dirty your house is?

This week’s wave of AI news shows how fast things are changing under the hood, from search engines to global budgets to video models.

Apple wants to turn Safari into an AI hub

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Apple is reportedly working to integrate AI search tools from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Perplexity directly into its Safari browser. This was revealed during a U.S. antitrust trial, where Apple exec Eddy Cue said AI-based search could soon replace Google’s traditional engine. Safari searches already dipped last month, which Cue blamed on rising AI usage.

In brief: Microsoft’s Edge is tied tightly to Copilot, Opera has Aria, and startups like Arc are pushing native AI features—making this part of a bigger shift toward AI-first browsing.

The big play: Apple’s move suggests the real future of “search” might ditch search engines altogether, swapping query boxes for conversational AI.

GenAI is now the #1 budget item

Cybersecurity has long ruled corporate tech budgets—but not anymore. According to AWS’ newly released Generative AI Adoption Index, 45% of global IT leaders are prioritizing GenAI spend over traditional IT security (down to 30%).

Other findings:

  • 92% of companies are hiring for GenAI roles in 2025.

  • One in four organizations expects half of its new hires to need AI expertise.

  • Over 55% of orgs cite talent shortages as the top blocker for scaling AI.

What it means: GenAI is rapidly becoming the heart of tech investment strategies worldwide. And businesses are putting their money where their mouth (chatbot?) is.

Lightricks just crushed the AI video bottleneck

AI video used to demand enterprise GPUs that cost $10,000 or more. No longer. This week, Lightricks (of Facetune fame) dropped LTXV-13B, a new video model that’s 30 times faster and can run on consumer GPUs like the RTX 3090 or 4090.

How it works: A technique called “multiscale rendering” lets the model build video scenes in progressive layers, slashing memory usage while keeping resolution high. Tests show it can generate clips in seconds vs. 20+ minutes for competitors.

Why this matters: AI video generation is moving from the cloud to your desktop—making it cheaper, faster, and more accessible than ever.

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Jobs, announcements, and big ideas

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  • Join Atlassian as a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to accelerate AI innovation across the company’s products and platform.

  • Adobe is hiring an AI Community Strategy Lead to drive community engagement and advocacy efforts across Adobe’s Gen AI products and tools.

  • Whoop 5.0 drops with new fitness tracking for athletes and casual users.

  • Meta’s next-gen AI glasses looking to add facial recognition super-sensing.

  • OpenAI brings ChatGPT deep research to GitHub repos.

  • Google rolls out AI scam protection for Chrome and Android.

Big week for bots and browsers. I dig into 22 cool things that happened in the world of AI, including some surprising Meta and OpenAI moves.

That’s a wrap! See you next week.

—Matt (FutureTools.io)

P.S. This newsletter is 100% written by a human. Okay, maybe 96%.