OpenAI and Anthropic face price pressure as AI startups shift to cheaper open models

Reddit users on r/SunoAI say generation times have dropped noticeably since Suno introduced download limits, which they credit with driving high-volume "slop farm" accounts off the platform.

SAP announced at its Connect conference in Las Vegas that it agreed to acquire TechWolf, a Belgian AI company that maps employee skills and work. The data will feed the HR agents in SAP SuccessFactors. Financial terms were not disclosed.

WhiteLab Genomics raised $26M to develop AI-designed medicines, per MobiHealthNews. No investors, valuation, or timeline were disclosed in the report.

At SAP Connect in Las Vegas, SAP detailed how its "Autonomous Enterprise" AI agents move from the Sapphire roadmap into back-office workflows for business users. Sapphire earlier this year outlined the agent-driven enterprise plan.

Google AI Studio says Nano Banana 2.1 outperforms its previous image models across the board, adding mask-based editing, subject consistency, and more natural-looking images. Vercel's AI Gateway lists it as google/gemini-nano-banana-2.1, targeting product recontextualization and factuality at Flash-tier latency and cost.

San Francisco startup Mirror Particle is building a foundation model from scratch to simulate why humans act as they do, arguing LLM roleplay is inadequate for market research and brand strategy. It has raised an angel round and says it is close to closing its first venture round.

The Verge column argues always-listening AI devices — Apple's rumored smart home camera that stores text descriptions instead of video, and Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 Audio Intelligence — are still recordings. Live Rewind transcribes the past 15 seconds; Siri Recap summarizes daily conversations.