Siri Adopts Google Gemini, Claude Enters Healthcare, Grokipedia Surges, and Midjourney Levels Up Anime

This Week in AI Newsletter: 1/12/2025

Apple is upgrading Siri with Google’s Gemini AI while still running Apple Intelligence on its own devices and private cloud, upon the news Google Became the 4th company of all time to hit a $4T market cap. More here.

Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare, with HIPAA-ready products and expanded Claude for Life Sciences; This comes just one week after ChatGPT Health. More here.

Google just launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), which lets AI agents handle the entire shopping journey; across different retailers, payment providers, and platforms. More here.

Grokipedia hit 6,092,140 total articles, nearing Wikipedia’s 7.1 million articles, hitting 86% of English Wikipedia by article count. More here.

Harmattan AI raised a $200M Series B led by Dassault Aviation, elevating the French autonomous defense AI startup to a $1.4B valuation and unicorn status. More here.

Indonesia and Malaysia have temporarily blocked xAI’s chatbot Grok after it generated non-consensual, sexualized AI images. More here.

Wired reports that OpenAI is asking contractors to upload real work from past and current jobs to help train its AI models, raising concerns about confidentiality and intellectual property. More here.

Midjourney launched Niji V7, bringing major improvements to anime coherence, prompt understanding, text rendering, and style reference performance. More here.