AI News - September 16, 2025

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We're excited to bring you this week's roundup of the most fascinating AI news, updates, and breakthroughs! Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, and explore the incredible world of AI with us.

🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

1. Apple Computer absorbs the Seattle startup team behind WhyLabs. [Link]

2. Oracle stock surges forty percent on news of a deal between Oracle and OpenAI for unprecedented demand for its products due to the addition of AI. [Link]

3. Retail giant Sam’s Club makes a large investment in AI, phasing out checkouts and betting big on AI shopping. [Link]

4. Albania appoints the world’s first ‘AI Minister’ in order to tackle corruption. [Link]

5. Foxconn and NVidia team up to produce Nurabot, an AI powered robot for hospitals. [Link]

6. Legal AI company Jus Mundi announces its latest model Jus 2. [Link]

7. Levita Magnetics, creator of its Mars platform for abdominal surgery enhances it with an AI guided smart camera. [Link]

8. California lawmakers unveil Senate Bill 243 that regulates AI Chatbot makers in order to protect minors from harmful content. [Link]

9. Chinese company ByteDance launches SeeDream a visual model that will compete with Google’s Nano Banana. [Link]

10. Coca-Cola subsidiary Minute Maid has teamed up with a consortium based at MIT to solve real world problems such as an orange juice supply crisis caused by a plant virus, by leveraging AI to combat orange disease and other real-world problems. [Link]

11. Reddit, Yahoo and other major brands have introduced RSL, a new licensing standard for making AI companies pay for training on their content. [Link]

12. Stability AI has introduced Stable Audio 2.5, a new model for enterprise sound production. [Link]