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Massive AI Leap This Week: Claude’s 1M-Token Upgrade, Siri App Control & Space-Age Digital Doctor
This week’s AI headlines reveal breakthroughs that are redefining how businesses—and even astronauts—can work smarter, faster and more humanely.
1. Claude Handles Book-Length Prompts: 1 Million Tokens, 750,000 Words
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 now boasts a staggering 1 milliontoken context window, enabling it to process up to 750,000 words in a single stretch. That’s more than the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, or 75,000 lines of code—quintuple its previous limit, and more than double GPT5’s 400,000 tokens. Already integrated via Anthropic’s API and available through Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, this extends powerful coding and writing support to enterprises with complex, longform workflows. Read more
2. Siri to Take Charge: Operate Apps Entirely by Voice
Apple is testing a new Siri that can operate apps on your behalf—no tapping required. Through enhancements to its App Intents framework, you might soon ask Siri to fetch and edit a photo, post a social message, or log into a service using only your voice. Testing is underway across apps like Uber, AllTrails, Threads, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Apple hopes to release the revamped Siri in spring 2026. Read more
3. Microsoft Lens Retires: AI Steps In
In a bittersweet turn, Microsoft is retiring its beloved Lens scanner app. From 15 September 2025, Lens will stop accepting new scans and will be removed from app stores on 15 November; existing scans will remain accessible until at least 15 December. Users are being nudged to migrate to Microsoft 365 Copilot, but that app lacks many of Lens’s strengths—especially saving to Word, PowerPoint or OneNote, businesscard scanning, accessibility features like Immersive Reader, or readoutloud capability.
4. NASA & Google Collaborate on AI Doc for Mars Missions
NASA, in collaboration with Google, has developed the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMODA)—an AI medical aide designed to diagnose and propose treatments during Earthindependent space missions. Underpinned by Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, the tool has already demonstrated promising accuracy: 74% for flank pain, 80% for ear pain, and 88% for an ankle injury, based on physician evaluations.
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5. Meta Builds Its AI Audio Stack with WaveForms Acquisition
Meta has acquired WaveForms—a speechAI startup just eight months old—for an undisclosed sum. Previously, WaveForms raised US$40 million from Andreessen Horowitz. The acquisition bolsters Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, following its recent purchase of PlayAI. WaveForms cofounders Alexis Conneau (formerly of Meta and OpenAI) and Coralie Lemaitre (exGoogle) are joining Meta. Their work on AI emotional intelligence and voice realism suggests Meta is accelerating its audioAI ambitions.
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Our Take
We are particularly excited by two threads this week. First, Claude’s expanded context capacity unlocks genuinely enterprise-scale workloads that are fast, cohesive, and context-rich. Second, NASA’s CMO-DA demonstrates the power of AI to deliver critical services in disconnected or future-facing environments, a powerful metaphor (and roadmap) for how businesses in rural or emerging-market regions can leap-frog traditional limitations with smart tech. Together, they underscore that both depth and reach of AI now match the ambition of business realities and human exploration.
AI is no longer a futuristic concept—it’s a necessity for staying ahead. Companies that embrace AI for automation, optimisation, and strategic innovation will be best positioned to lead in the evolving digital landscape.
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