Welcome to the newest edition of ID Tech’s AI update. Here’s the latest big news on the shifting landscape of AI and identity technology:
Anduril and Meta have teamed up to build a new AI-infused Augmented Reality headset for the U.S. Army. The EagleEye headset will combine Meta’s Reality Labs technology and open-source Llama AI models with Anduril’s Lattice command-and-control platform. It signals the end of a longstanding beef between the firms’ CEOs: Years ago, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg fired Anduril’s Palmer Luckey, who developed the Oculus headset tech acquired by Meta in 2014, seemingly over political issues.
OpenAI is opening a new office in South Korea, where it enjoys the highest number of paid ChatGPT users outside of the US. The move follows partnerships with major Korean companies such as Kakao, Krafton, and SK Telecom. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s CFO, acknowledged at this week’s Dublin Tech Summit that the firm’s planned new corporate structure will open the door to a potential IPO “if and when we want to”.
Germany might turn into a European AI tech hub. Deutsche Telekom has partnered with SAP, web hosting firm Ionos, and the retailer Schwartz, which recently expanded into cloud services, to pursue European Union support for a new AI data center. Meanwhile, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co announced plans to open an AI chip design center in Munich.
Nvidia posted another strong earnings report despite US sanctions blocking its business in China. Revenues were up 69 percent, beating analyst estimates, and net income was up 33 percent year-over-year at $19.9 billion. Revenue came in at $44.1 billion, and the company’s guidance expects revenues of about $45 billion, give or take two percent, in the next quarter.
The Trump administration has ordered EDA software providers to stop selling to China. Electronic design automation software is essential for the design of AI semiconductors, and major EDA firms like Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA were told by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to cease their China-bound sales in late May.
DeepSeek got an upgrade. The new DeepSeek-R1-0528 model approaches the performance of top closed-source reasoning models like OpenAI’s o3 across a few important benchmarks relating to coding and logic. The difference being, of course, that the China-made DeepSeek model is open source and free to use.
Honor has revealed that it is now working on humanoid robots. The China-based company is best known for its smartphones today, but it had announced a $10 billion investment plan focused on AI and robotics earlier this year. It revealed its focus on humanoid robots at a launch event for its Honor 400 series phones this week.
Resemble AI is open sourcing its Voice Cloning model, Chatterbox. The company says that testing found that 63.75 percent of listeners preferred Chatterbox over the voice cloning system offered by rival ElevenLabs, and that its own solution is “demonstrably superior to the proprietary models.” The move comes after Resemble AI launched a deepfake detector for WhatsApp in late April.
The chatbot’s take: We decided to test 4o’s creative capabilities this week.
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May 30, 2025 – by Alex Perala
