November 07, 2025
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Good morning and Happy Friday! Amazon is bringing its Alexa+ technology to BMW vehicles, creating the automotive industry's first truly conversational in-car assistant powered by over 70 specialized language models.
When your car understands context like a passenger would, what new possibilities open up for hands-free productivity?
In today's recap:
Amazon and BMW partner for first conversational automotive AI
Edison Scientific debuts Kosmos AI scientist
Perplexity AI roll out major upgrades to Comet Assistant
New AI tools & prompts
AMAZON & BWM
BMW gets smarter in-car voice assistant
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Recaply: Amazon is bringing its next-generation Alexa technology to BMW vehicles, marking a significant upgrade in how drivers interact with their cars. The partnership combines Amazon's Alexa+ artificial intelligence with BMW's automotive expertise to create a more natural, conversational in-car assistant that helps drivers while keeping their eyes on the road.
Key details:
BMW becomes the first automaker to integrate Amazon's next-generation Alexa Custom Assistant, built on the advanced Alexa+ platform.
The system uses over 70 large language models powered by Amazon Bedrock on AWS, enabling natural conversations instead of basic voice commands.
BMW recently won the 2025 Auto Motor Sport Tech Award for its existing voice assistant technology.
The new assistant experience will launch in select BMW models soon.
The collaboration extends Amazon and BMW's long-standing partnership that already includes AWS-powered connected vehicle services.
Why it matters: This partnership represents a shift from simple car commands to genuine conversations with vehicles. As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated, drivers can expect their cars to understand context and provide personalized assistance, making every journey smarter and safer.
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PERPLEXITY
Perplexity’s Comet assistant gets smarter
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Recaply: Perplexity AI rolls out a major upgrades to Comet Assistant that handles more complex tasks and works longer without giving up. The upgrade brings 23% better performance and new multitasking abilities that let the AI assistant work across multiple browser tabs at once.
Key details:
The new Comet Assistant can perceive and interact with web environments more effectively, making it easier to navigate complex websites and complete tasks that previously required switching between tabs.
Users can now delegate complex, multi-step tasks like organizing job searches on LinkedIn, finding the cheapest flights across multiple travel sites, or creating detailed spreadsheets from school attendance records.
Perplexity improved the permission system so Comet asks users first before interacting with their browser, giving people more control over how the assistant operates during each task.
Internal testing shows the upgraded assistant performs 23% better than the previous version, especially on tasks requiring many steps in the right order.
The assistant launched to all Comet users on November 6, 2025, expanding what people can accomplish online with AI help.
Why it matters: This upgrade represents a shift toward AI assistants that actually complete work instead of just answering questions. As these tools get better at handling the tedious online tasks people face daily, they free up time for what matters most.
AI RESEARCH
AI tool does 6 months work in 1 day
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Recaply: Edison Scientific just launched Kosmos, an AI scientist that speeds up research in ways that sound almost too good to be true. This next generation tool can read 1,500 scientific papers and run 42,000 lines of analysis code in a single research session.
Key details:
Kosmos has already made seven scientific discoveries across fields like neuroscience, materials science, and genetics. Three of these discoveries independently reproduced findings from unpublished human research.
The AI tool delivers accurate conclusions 79.4% of the time, with every finding traceable back to specific papers or code for full transparency.
Researchers can use Kosmos starting today for $200 per research run through Edison Scientific's platform. The company maintains a free tier for academics.
Unlike chatbots, Kosmos functions more like a deep research assistant. It uses structured world models to synthesize information from hundreds of agent trajectories.
Why it matters: Scientists often spend months buried in literature reviews and data analysis. Kosmos shows how AI can handle this grunt work, freeing researchers to focus on creative thinking and experimental design. The six month time savings suggests we're entering an era where AI significantly accelerates scientific discovery.
NEWS
📰 What matters in AI right now?
Google launched File Search in the Gemini API, a fully managed RAG system offering free query-time storage and embeddings, charging only $0.15 per million tokens for initial indexing.
Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source AI model executing 200-300 sequential tool calls autonomously, outperforming GPT-5 on several benchmarks at $4.6 million training cost.
Google announced its 7th-generation TPU Ironwood reaching general availability within weeks, delivering 10x performance gains over TPU v5p with Anthropic planning to deploy up to 1 million units.
Google is in talks to invest more in Anthropic, potentially valuing the AI startup at over $350 billion, up from its September valuation of $138 billion.
Amazon launched Kindle Translate, a free AI service enabling authors to translate eBooks between English-Spanish and German-English within days.
PRODUCTIVITY
🧰 AI Tools to Check Out
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✍️ Clipto: Convert audio and video to text with AI transcription
🔍 Machined: Research keywords and write SEO‑ready articles with interlinking
✅ Taskade: Manage tasks, notes, and docs with built‑in AI agents
🔊 Speechify: Turn any text into natural‑sounding speech fast
🧑🎤 Jogg AI: Create avatar‑based videos from URLs or existing content
🎭 Vidnoz: Generate AI videos with realistic avatars and face swapping
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