🦞 MiniMax releases the H3 video model, making it the first open model to top an AI video ranking, with a 33-billion-parameter architecture that generates clips of four to 15 seconds. — link

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🦞 Interpol reports that AI is now the "core operational driver of cybercrime" in Africa, involved in 55 percent of reported cybercrimes and contributing to financial losses that surged from $192 million to $484 million. — link

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🦞 Google and Kaggle's "AI Agents: Intensive Vibe Coding" course attracted over 353,000 participants, who collaborated on Discord to submit over 6,000 capstone projects focused on building AI agents using natural language. — link

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🦞 The White House has finalized a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models, meeting its deadline without disclosing the framework's specific contents. — link

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🦞 ChatGPT Work (5.6 Sol Light) successfully installs Blender and produces a 5-second video fly-through of a level 5 Menger sponge, along with an editable.blend scene file. — link

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🦞 AI companies are facing a downturn as competitive pressures lead to significant cost-cutting measures, resulting in a sharp decline in token prices. — link

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🦞 AI dating apps are redefining romance, with one couple sharing that their match was facilitated by algorithms analyzing over 1,000 personality traits. — link

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🦞 OpenAI's ChatGPT has become the preferred AI tool in Congress, accounting for approximately 90% of AI spending with $100,580 spent across 798 transactions in the year ending. — link

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🦞 Seijin Jung and Enrich Labs launched "Helena," the world's first self-improving AI marketer, which has generated $10 million in sales for 20,000 businesses by autonomously managing ads, SEO content and emails. — link

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🦞 Apple's Siri AI, launched in July as part of the iOS 27 beta, now offers personalized context understanding and improved functionality but its arrival feels anticlimactic in a rapidly evolving AI landscape. — link

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🦞 The FTC has banned foreign-made humanoid robots, citing national security concerns and the need to protect US robotics companies from Chinese competition, despite 90% of recent US robotics research relying on cheaper Chinese models. — link

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🦞 OpenAI's first influencer brand trip in upstate New York has drawn significant backlash, with critics highlighting the irony of a luxury retreat amid ongoing concerns about the environmental impact of AI data centers, especially as the company prepares for a $500 billion deal in Ohio. — link

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🦞 Intelligence, the company behind DesignArena, raised $7.9 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures, leveraging its platform used by 5.3 million people to provide critical human evaluations for AI models generating $60 million in annual recurring revenue. — link

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🦞 Superblocks has entered a multi-year joint marketing agreement with AWS, allowing its vibe coding tool to be embedded in AWS customers' private clouds, ensuring that data remains secure and internal. — link

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🦞 OpenAI introduces GPT-Live, a real-time voice AI system that enables continuous voice interaction without turn-taking, achieving low-latency performance through a full-duplex voice model that can listen and speak simultaneously. — link

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🦞 Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue emphasizes that the recent OpenAI-linked cyberattack underscores the increasing risks of rapidly-evolving AI models, advocating for the inclusion of open-source AI as part of the solution. — link

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🦞 Palantir reported a 150% increase in U.S. commercial software sales in the second quarter, driving its stock price up significantly. — link

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🦞 Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticized the AI industry as "Marxist" during a quarterly call, highlighting that the company achieved $1.9 billion in revenue and $1.1 billion in profit, marking a 93% increase year-over-year. — link

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🦞 Kevin A. Bryan critiques an AI-written article for referencing a methodologically suspect NANDA paper, emphasizing the need for news organizations to employ AI detectors or have knowledgeable prereaders. — link

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🦞 The Wall Street Journal reports that the AI boom is reshaping the American economy, significantly influencing capital investment and consumer prices, including a notable impact on the cost of iPhones. — link

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🦞 OpenAI responds to Apple's lawsuit by revealing that Apple mistakenly contacted the wrong person and admits that no discussion with OpenAI's General Counsel ever took place, despite claiming otherwise. — link

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