Here’s what’s making news in AI.

Spotlight: Elon Musk’s AI company may release a consumer app (Source: TechCrunch)

– Google Gemini’s Imagen 3 lets players design their chess pieces (Source: TechCrunch)

– Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model (Source: TechCrunch)

– OpenAI moves to trademark its ‘reasoning’ models (Source: TechCrunch)

– Former Android leaders are building an ‘operating system for AI agents’ (Source: The Verge)

– ElevenLabs’ new feature is a NotebookLM competitor for creating GenAI podcasts (Source: TechCrunch)