🟠 Valve CEO to Launch Neuralink Rival Brain Chip by Late 2025

Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell's neural interface startup, Starfish Neuroscience, has announced plans to launch its first brain chip by the end of 2025. The company is positioning itself as a rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink, aiming to develop less invasive implants.

The Starfish device will consume significantly less power than Neuralink and can operate without a battery. The chip will be much smaller than existing alternatives and capable of being implanted in multiple brain regions at once—a potential advantage in treating conditions like Parkinson's disease.

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📱 Musk Launches X Money Closed Beta

Elon Musk has confirmed that X Money—his long-awaited payment and banking app for the X platform—has entered limited beta testing before its planned 2025 launch. He stressed that "extreme care must be taken" with users' savings as part of his goal to turn X into an "everything app."

Inspired by super-app models such as China's WeChat, which serves over a billion users, Musk sees X combining messaging, payments, shopping, entertainment, and more in one unified platform.

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❎+📱 Musk, Durov Ink $300M Deal to Bring Grok AI to Telegram

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and Elon Musk, founder of xAI, announced a landmark $300 million partnership on Wednesday that will integrate Grok directly into the Telegram platform.

Starting this summer, xAI's chatbot Grok will be able to:

🔜 Fact-check posts in real time
🔜 Perform web searches directly from Telegram's search bar
🔜 Summarize documents and conversations, co-write messages;
🔜 Moderate group chats to enhance user safety and experience
🔜 Generate 3D stickers and AI-powered avatars

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🔎 Opera Unveils AI Browser That Codes, Shops, and Designs Games for You

Opera has unveiled Opera Neon, an AI-powered browser capable of handling tasks like coding, game design, and online shopping automation via a cloud-based virtual machine that keeps working even when users are offline.

At its core is the Browser Operator, a local AI agent powering Neon's "Do" feature. It interprets natural language to automate tasks such as filling forms, booking hotels, and scraping web content—all while keeping sensitive data on the user's device for enhanced privacy.

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🎨 GPT Images AI Generator Is Now Free On @GPT4Telegrambot

Hi everyone! The best AI image generator, GPT-4o Images, is now completely free in our bot.

We've also created a comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide on generating images, including examples of trending prompts.

You can:

➡️ Turn a photo into a Studio Ghibli anime or a Disney cartoon, or give it any other style.
➡️ Generate an action figure, realistic miniature, or LEGO set from a photo.
➡️ See your pet as a human or discover what a child will look like when they grow up.
➡️ Create a unique sticker pack or non-standard avatar.
➡️ Make pictures with text.

➡️ And much more! See the full manual with images and prompt examples here.

How to try?

1️⃣ Go to @GPT4Telegrambot
2️⃣ Click the Image Generation button and select GPT-4o Images or send the /wow command
3️⃣ Describe the image idea to the bot. If needed, attach any image.

The generation result can be improved simply by using natural conversation (e.g., "change the background to ...", "add ... to the image").

Click the New Image button to restart the creation process.

❤️ — If you want the bot to add more features for free

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 22, 2025.

▎GROK IN TELEGRAM

❎+📱 Telegram will integrate the Grok chatbot. The messenger will feature AI search, fact-checking, chat summaries, and other AI-powered functions.

▎BOT UPDATES

🔴 The GPT Images AI generator is now free on @GPT4Telegrambot. We've made a detailed guide for working with the tool, including examples of trending prompts.

▎SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL

🔖 NotebookLM: The best AI for exam preparation.

🤩 Useful tips on using AI for medical purposes.

📹 Google Veo 3: A new level of AI video realism with generated dialogues.

▎TO READ

🥊 China hosted the first robotic boxing tournament.

💭 AI possesses free will, claims Finnish philosopher Frank Martela.

🟠 Valve CEO Gabe Newell will release Neuralink's rival brain chip by late 2025.

🗼 Tor Alva: The world's tallest 3D-printed tower.

💬 AI app AACessTalk helps children with autism talk with their parents.

🔎 Opera releases an AI-powered web browser.

📱 Musk launches X Money payment system closed beta.

📈 More than half of companies that laid off employees due to AI regretted it.

▎TO WATCH

🍿 "Dalloway": A thriller about an AI assistant, shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

Have a great Sunday 👍

🖥 Anthropic CEO Warns of AI's Threat to White-Collar Jobs

According to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, artificial intelligence could eliminate approximately 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years, potentially causing unemployment rates between 10% and 20% across sectors, including technology, finance, law, and consulting.

Amodei frames his warning as a moral obligation: "We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming."

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🐳 DeepSeek May Have Used Gemini for R1 Update

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's recently updated R1-0528 reasoning model has sparked controversy as developers have identified similarities suggesting it may have been trained using outputs from Google's Gemini AI.

While DeepSeek didn't disclose its training data sources, experts have noted the model's preference for terminology and expressions remarkably similar to those used by Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro.

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🦜 Australian Cockatoos Learn to Use Drinking Fountains

Sulfur-crested cockatoos in western Sydney have learned to use public drinking fountains, skillfully twisting the handles with their feet and leveraging their bodies to access water. Researchers suggest this behavior is becoming a cultural tradition as it spreads among the local population.

These cockatoos exhibit intelligence on par with chimpanzees or a 1–2-year-old human. Although their brains weigh only about 10.1 grams, they contain roughly the same number of neurons as a 39.2-gram capuchin monkey's brain, and their pallium region holds more neurons than most primates. Their problem-solving, vocal mimicry, and behavioral adaptability reflect this high cognitive capacity.

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🚔 Amazon Testing Humanoid Robots for Package Delivery

Amazon is developing AI-powered humanoid robots designed to deliver packages directly to customers' doorsteps, with plans to test these robots in a specially built "humanoid park" obstacle course at its San Francisco facility, where the machines will practice exiting Rivian electric delivery vans and navigating real-world delivery scenarios.

The corporation plans to test many robot models — including those from the Chinese company Unitree.

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🎻 Physicists Craft Tiny Violin Thinner Than a Hair

Physicists at Loughborough University have crafted what they call "the world's smallest violin"—a platinum image just 35 microns long and 13 microns wide, small enough to fit inside a human hair.

It's not actually a playable instrument but rather a demonstration of cutting-edge nanolithography capabilities.

The miniature was created as a playful nod to the popular phrase "Can you hear the world's smallest violin playing just for you?"—an expression of mock sympathy used in response to exaggerated complaints.

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📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 22, 2025.

▎TO READ

🟠 Elon Musk wants to send people to Mars as early as 2030.

🍄 Is a Last of Us World coming? Scientists predict outbreaks of fungal infections.

👩‍⚕️ People couldn't tell real therapists' answers and ChatGPT's answers apart.

🦜 Australian cockatoos learn to use drinking fountains.

🐳 DeepSeek may have trained the new R1 version on Gemini's responses.

🔎 An AI service can guess where you live from your YouTube comments.

🚔 Amazon is testing humanoid robots for package delivery.

🎉 Students created a vibrating vest that "restored" sight to a blind dog.

🌀 The new AI model lets you "walk" inside generated videos.

💊 AI dramatically speeds up the design of effective drug candidates.

▎SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL

📹 Kling 2.1 is now available on @GPT4Telegrambot: A new version of one of the best video generators.

🟨 CapWords: Create language flashcards with AI.

▎TO WATCH

📱 How is AI changing the film industry? Visual effects specialist Rob Bredow explains.

When will humans land on Mars?

❤️ — Musk will make it by 2030
🔥 — More likely between 2031 and 2035
🤔 — Much later!

♟ Retro Atari 2600 from 1977 Beats Modern ChatGPT in Chess

In a surprising tech showdown, a 1977 Atari 2600—with only 128 bytes of RAM and a 1.19MHz processor—completely dominated OpenAI's ChatGPT in a chess game. Infrastructure architect Robert Caruso set up the match using the Stella emulator, putting the vintage console head-to-head with the modern AI.

These failures stem from ChatGPT's inability to maintain a coherent mental model of the chessboard. Unlike purpose-built chess engines, the AI doesn't truly "understand" the 8×8 grid or visualize piece positions.

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📱 Apple Unveils On-Screen AI and New "Liquid Glass" Design

At WWDC 2025, Apple expanded its Visual Intelligence for iPhone, allowing users to analyze on-screen content in any app. Using the screenshot button shortcut, you can now perform image searches, create calendar events, or send information directly to ChatGPT.

Apple also revealed "Liquid Glass," a major design overhaul for all its operating systems. This new look features translucent, rounded elements that dynamically react to light and surrounding content, creating a seamless harmony between the software and hardware.

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🔥 Turkmenistan's Gates of Hell Crater Is Running Out of Gas

Turkmenistan's "Gates of Hell," a 70-meter-wide gas crater that has burned for over 50 years, is finally diminishing.

The Darvaza crater formed in 1971 when Soviet geologists drilling for natural gas accidentally punctured an underground cavern, causing a ground collapse that created a 70-meter-wide, 30-meter-deep crater. Scientists ignited the methane to prevent toxic gas escape, expecting it to burn out within weeks.

Instead, the crater has burned continuously for five decades, fueled by vast methane reserves from the Amu-Darya Basin below.

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