From Meta’s Midjourney pact and Apple’s Gemini-powered Siri talks to xAI’s open Grok and “Macrohard,” this week’s AI roundup covers the partnerships, platforms, and policy shaping what’s next. We break down GitLab 18.3’s AI-native DevSecOps, AWS–GitHub automation, Cloudflare’s QUIC media network, Databricks–Tecton, and OpenAI’s Project Memory. Plus: China’s push off Nvidia H20, U.S. equity in Intel, humanoid robot games, Target’s AI forecasting, Pixel 10’s Gemini features, and standout research—from protein reprogramming and reasoning advances to AR displays and solar-flare prediction. Big takeaway: agentic AI and build-vs-buy are redefining speed, cost, and capability.