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☍ Elon Musk’s Neuralink joins study working toward a bionic eye

Neuralink joins a clinical trial to develop a Smart Bionic Eye, aiming to help blind people recognize faces, read, and navigate using AI. The project is led by UC Santa Barbara, with Neuralink providing patients once available.

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✗ COMING SOON: OpenAI upcoming releases in the days and weeks to follow:

GPT-5
GPT-5-pro (zenith)
GPT-5-high (summit)
GPT-5-mini
GPT-5-nano (starfish)
Open source model (lobster)
Sora 2
Study Together
Aura browser

Will Sam Altman unleash the AI tools before July ends or August be the ChatGPT month once again?

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✗ Google just dropped $37M to supercharge Africa’s AI future

From language to food security, Google’s betting big on the continent’s talent and tech potential.

☍ $25M for AI tools tackling food insecurity across Africa

☍ $3M to build models in 40+ African languages

☍ New AI Community Centre launched in Accra, Ghana

☍ 100,000 AI scholarships in Ghana — plus major education pushes in Nigeria, Kenya & South Africa

This isn’t just philanthropy — it’s a global AI power play, starting in Africa.

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☍ GPT-5 is smarter than us in almost every way.

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✗ Sam Altman says AI will soon let anyone create software just by describing it in plain English


☍ Anyone with an idea can describe it, and AI will build, debug, and deploy it for you. "If you have a great idea, AI will make it happen for you"

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✗ Demis Hassabis says I'm not worried about running out of high-quality human data


☍ We already have enough to build strong systems and simulations that generate useful synthetic data. "We're already at that stage now".

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✗ Google launches Opal — an AI tool for "vibe coding"

☍ Google is testing Opal, a new AI-powered app builder under Google Labs.
You describe what you want — Opal generates a working web app.

☍ Users can edit each step or tweak the app visually. Final projects can be published and shared via link, and there’s a remixable project gallery.

No coding skills required — Opal is built for devs and non-devs alike.
Early access now live in the US.

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✗ Sam Altman’s future of AI: 8 bold predictions

In a 90-minute podcast with Theo Von, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared radical predictions about how AI will reshape society — from the death of college to automated CEOs and synthetic births.

🖱 Traditional colleges will be obsolete for today’s newborns
🖱 GPT-5 already outperforms Altman in narrow tasks — and could run OpenAI “in the near future”
🖱 AI will overtake humans in reasoning, coding, planning, and negotiation — shifting most office work to agents
🖱 A persistent intelligence gap between humans and machines is coming
🖱 Public ownership of AI productivity is better than universal basic income
🖱 GPT-5 instantly solved a complex task that left Altman feeling useless
🖱 Nuclear fusion will be required to power future AI systems
🖱 Artificial wombs could replace natural childbirth within 40 years

From workplace disruption to biotech frontiers, Altman paints a future that’s both inevitable and deeply destabilizing.

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✗ Pony AI goes 24/7 with robotaxis in three major cities

Unlike Tesla’s zigzagging path to full autonomy, China’s Pony AI is moving steadily. In Beijing, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, the last restriction on commercial robotaxi service has been lifted — they now operate 24/7, including overnight hours.

That’s a big step: night coverage improves access for users and signals real confidence in the tech.

☍ 50M km driven fully autonomously
☍ Fleet to exceed 1,000 vehicles by year-end
☍ Coverage expanded across three of China’s biggest urban markets

Meanwhile, the rest of the world is still stuck in the sandbox.

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🔒 AI education keeps getting better

OpenAI just launched study more in ChatGPT. Instead of just giving answers, it guides through problems step-by-step using Socratic questioning, hints, and self-reflection

2025 is becoming the self-learner's paradise

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🔔 Zucc just poached 4th AI researcher from Apple

> META first poached apple AI chief for $200 million
> then poached 2 more from that team
> “Apple has been marginally increasing the pay for ai staff”
> but additional engineers are actively interviewing for other jobs

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Jobs most affected by AI today.

Microsoft study.

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✗ “Bolt for video”: AI video editing by text command

Tailored Labs won the $1M Bolt hackathon with a tool that turns video editing into a conversation.

Built on the Bolt platform, it lets users edit videos just by describing changes in plain English — no timeline dragging or manual cuts.

☍ One-Shot Generation: creates a finished video from raw clips in minutes
☍ Chat-to-Edit: instantly applies text-based commands to the timeline
☍ Smart Media Library: uses AI to find takes, trim footage, and sort scenes
☍ Professional Timeline: supports multi-track editing and transitions
☍ Cloud Rendering: renders high-quality videos via Remotion, no fan noise

More winners from the hackathon ➔ here

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✗ OpenAI launched GPT-5

☍ GPT-5 is available to free-tier users as well.
☍ Best coding model in the market
☍ Also accessible via API
☍ PHD level intelligence

OpenAI cooked hard with this.
Here’s a are all key updates and launch details.

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✗ OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low: An AI Price War Has Begun!

☍ $1.25/M tokens input, $10/M output
☍ Slightly better than rivals in coding & reasoning
☍ Undercuts Claude Opus & even GPT-4o
☍ Devs call it a “pricing killer”
☍ A new era of accessible AI is here

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✗ OpenAI's general-purpose reasoning model achieved a gold-level score at the 2025 International Olympiad in Informatics.

☍ It scored 98th percentile, placing sixth against humans and first among AI systems in the competition.

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Beijing's first World Humanoid Robot Games open with hip-hop, soccer, boxing, track and more.

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✗ Parents are suing ChatGPT, saying it helped their teenage son to take his own life.

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✗ OpenAI’s cash burn balloons to $115B

OpenAI has massively raised its projected spending through 2029, mostly from compute and data center costs.

☍ Cash burn now set at $115B, about $80B higher than earlier plans.
☍ 2025 expenses raised to $8B, with $150B projected just for compute between 2025–2030.
☍ Revenue forecast for 2030 bumped up to $200B, driven by ChatGPT and new products.

To cut reliance on cloud rentals, OpenAI is building its own server chips with Broadcom (first due next year) and doubling down on massive data centers with Oracle, SoftBank, and Google Cloud.

OpenAI isn’t just making AI anymore — it’s becoming a chips + cloud infrastructure giant.

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