🧠 China Launches First Brain Implant Trial

China has launched its first brain-computer interface clinical trial, becoming the second country after the U.S. to test this technology on humans. A paralyzed patient successfully played chess and racing games using only his thoughts after receiving the implant in March 2025, showing remarkable progress within three weeks.

The Chinese BCI developer CEBSIT directly competes with Neuralink. The CEBSIT chip is significantly smaller and thinner than Musk's company device.

Both countries race to commercialize their technologies, with China targeting 2028 market entry.

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💰 Altman Says Meta's $100M Offers Fail to Lure OpenAI Staff

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that Meta has been offering massive compensation packages worth over $100 million to OpenAI employees as part of Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive hiring campaign for Meta's new superintelligence team, but claimed these efforts have been largely unsuccessful with none of OpenAI's "best people" accepting the offers.

Mark Zuckerberg is personally leading Meta's new push into superintelligent AI, launching a "superintelligence lab" to develop AGI and surpass human-level AI. He calls it Meta's defining project of the next decade, with $14 billion in backing.

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🖤 SpaceX Starship Explodes in Fireball During Ground Test

Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship exploded during a ground test at the Starbase launch site.

The blast was caught on a live stream. Residents of Cameron County, Texas—where the site is located—reported that the explosion shook windows and rattled dishes in their homes.

SpaceX says it's investigating the cause of a "major anomaly." All personnel are safe.

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💰 Wix Buys 6-Month-Old AI Startup Base44 for $80M

According to TechCrunch, Israeli developer Maor Shlomo has sold his six-month-old AI-powered "vibe-coding" startup Base44 to Wix for $80 million in cash—highlighting how AI is accelerating small-team innovation in the no-code space.

At just 31, Shlomo was already a seasoned founder when he launched Base44. In 2017, at age 24, he co-founded Explorium, a predictive analytics startup that raised around $125 million and grew to over 100 employees.

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📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 25, 2025.

▎NEW RELEASES

✴️ Midjourney released a V1 video generator with flexible settings and impressive aesthetics.

▎SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL

📘 CS50x: A free online computer science course from Harvard.

▎TO READ

📹 Dream Recorder: An AI gadget for turning dreams into videos.

🧠 China has launched its first brain-computer interface clinical trial.

💬 Why AI doesn't really understand our language?

🔮 Researchers have assessed the risks of AI completely destroying humanity.

💰 Meta offered $100 million to poach top AI talent from OpenAI.

💥 SpaceX Starship explodes in a fireball during a ground test.

🌌 Scientists have created an AI model to study black holes.

🌧 Rainmaker startup creates rain in the right place at the right time.

▎TO WATCH

🎞 ANCESTRA: The first film by Darren Aronofsky's studio, created with Google Veo.

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🔎 Google Launches Open-Source Coding Agent

Google has released Gemini CLI, a command-line AI coding agent. The tool allows developers to make natural language requests for coding tasks, including explaining code sections, writing new features, debugging issues, and running commands.

➡️ Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro with a 1M token context window.
➡️ Supports MCP, web search, and VS Code integration.
➡️ Fully open-source.

Gemini CLI is free to use, with a limit of 60 requests per minute or 1,000 per day.

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🦟 China Reveals Mosquito-Sized Spy Drone

China's National University of Defense Technology has unveiled a mosquito-sized drone designed for covert military surveillance, marking a significant advancement in miniaturized warfare technology.

The drone, measuring just 1.3 centimeters in length, was showcased on state TV this month and signals a new leap in reconnaissance tools.

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🐳 Germany Tells Apple, Google to Remove DeepSeek from Stores

Germany's data protection chief ordered Apple and Google on Friday to remove the Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their stores, citing illegal data transfers to China and inadequate privacy protections. The move adds to Europe's growing backlash against the popular chatbot, which has shaken up the AI market since its launch in January.

Commissioner Meike Kamp said DeepSeek sends user data to China without proper safeguards. Apple and Google must now review the order and decide whether to block the app in Germany.

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📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 26, 2025.

▎BOT'S UPDATE

🎙 Hailuo 02: A new AI video generator is now on @GPT4Telegrambot. Google Veo 3 level quality, realistic physics and movements, minimal censorship.

▎NEW RELEASES

🟨 Tila: A workspace that lets you use multiple AIs on an infinite canvas.

🔎 Gemini CLI: Google's new AI agent for coding.

▎SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL

🌿 iNaturalist: An app for nature exploring during summer holidays.

▎ПОЧИТАТЬ

🐱 Neuropsychologists found that two-thirds of cats sleep on their left side.

🚘 Tesla launched a closed robotaxi test in the U.S.

⚽️ An AI model predicts football match results.

🦾 MIT scientists created an AI prosthetic arm that "thinks" on its own.

🦟 China reveals mosquito-sized spy drone.

🛡️ AI catches shoplifters in 5,000 stores around the U.S., Canada and Europe.

🐳 Germany tells Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from stores.

🦭 SEAL: The AI that generates its own training data.

🖼 AI helps restore paintings in hours instead of months.

Have a great Sunday 👍

🕶 Apple to Launch Smart Glasses Without Display in 2027

Apple plans to release its first smart glasses in 2027, with mass production set for the second quarter, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The Ray-Ban-style device will mark Apple's entry into the growing wearable tech market.

The glasses will feature voice and gesture controls, built-in cameras, audio playback, and AI-powered sensing—but will not include a display. Apple expects to ship 3 to 5 million units in the first year, aiming to replace some smartphone and earbud functions.

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🌐 Baidu Open-Sources Ernie Chatbot

Chinese tech giant Baidu has made its Ernie 4.5 family of AI models open source, a strategic move that experts describe as "throwing a Molotov cocktail into the AI world" by providing free access to technology that rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic charge premium prices for.

The Ernie 4.5 family comprises 10 models, with parameter sizes ranging from 3 billion to 424 billion, released under the Apache 2.0 license. The largest model reportedly outperforms its larger closed-source rivals, such as DeepSeek-V3.

➡️ You can chat with Ernie for free here.

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🚘 Tesla Model Y Drives Itself From Factory to Buyer

Tesla hit a new milestone when a Model Y drove itself 24 km from its Austin Gigafactory to a customer's home—no human onboard, no remote operator—navigating highways, traffic lights, and suburban streets in 30 minutes.

CEO Elon Musk dubbed it "the world's first autonomous delivery of a car."

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☄️ A11pl3Z Tracked as Third Known Interstellar Object

Astronomers are tracking A11pl3Z, a fast-moving object likely to be the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system, after 'Oumuamua in 2017 and Comet Borisov in 2019, according to multiple observatories.

Now inside Jupiter's orbit, A11pl3Z will reach perihelion on October 29, 2025, at 1.35 AU from the Sun. Its inbound path gives scientists valuable time to study it, unlike the brief window they had with 'Oumuamua.

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🧬 Gene Therapy Restores Hearing in Deaf Patients

A single injection of gene therapy has restored hearing in all 10 participants of a clinical trial, marking the first success across a range of ages, from toddlers to young adults. The study, published on Tuesday in Nature Medicine, shows that genetic deafness caused by a specific mutation can be quickly reversed with a single treatment.

Led by Sweden's Karolinska Institutet and five hospitals in China, the trial treated patients aged 1 to 24 with hearing loss linked to OTOF gene mutations. These mutations block the production of otoferlin, a key protein responsible for transmitting sound signals from the ear to the brain.

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