🍏 Apple May Launch Ultra-Cheap Mac Mini

Apple is reportedly preparing a Mac mini powered by an iPhone chip, following the success of the MacBook Neo.

The rumored Mac Neo could feature 12 GB of RAM and an A19 Pro chip from the iPhone 17 Pro, all in a compact form factor.

Expected price: just $299. This is how Apple may try to capture the entry-level home computer market for casual users.

Would you buy a Mac like this?

❤️ — Absolutely!
🔥 — No, sticking with Windows

🌥 Claude Opus 4.7 Is Out

The new Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 outperforms competitors like GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on almost every benchmark (though it still falls well short of the unreleased Mythos Preview).

It follows instructions more reliably, handles complex coding and UI design tasks better, and does a noticeably improved job recognizing high-resolution images and reading charts.

➡️ Already available on claude.ai for paid subscribers.

🤖 Stanford Report Finds Robots Fail 88% of Household Tasks

Stanford University's 2026 AI Index Report, released this week, reveals that humanoid robots succeed in only 12% of real household tasks—an 88% failure rate that underscores the vast distance between polished lab demonstrations and practical home deployment.

💬 OpenAI Is Looking to Replace Sam Altman Before IPO

Sources told the WSJ that some shareholders are questioning whether Sam Altman should remain at the helm of the company and are floating board chairman Bret Taylor as a potential replacement.

OpenAI's board is concerned about possible conflicts of interest on Altman's part, as well as his being spread too thin ahead of the company's planned public offering, which is preliminarily valued at $850 billion.

Altman has been pushing OpenAI investments into Helion, a nuclear fusion startup, Stoke Space, and Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface lab—all companies in which he has personal stakes. Meanwhile, OpenAI has publicly stated it's stepping back from side projects to stay focused on its core AI products.

On top of that, Altman said back in December that he has "zero percent" interest in being a CEO of a public company.

"Am I excited to be a public company CEO? 0%," he explained. "Am I excited for OpenAI to be a public company? In some ways, I am, and in some ways I think it'd be really annoying."

So, do you think Altman will step down as CEO?

❤️ — Yes, most likely
🤔 — Not sure
🔥 — Don't care, just drop GPT-6

🏃‍♀️ Tiny and Cute Participants in the Beijing Robotic Half-Marathon

The android "Lightning," developed by Honor, took first place in the race, finishing in just 50 minutes and 26 seconds. It bested all 12,000 human competitors and even surpassed the current human world record for a half-marathon.

While many smaller robots also participated, they clearly had no chance of winning; however, their presence helped alleviate common human fears of being overtaken by super-fast, malevolent robots.

📹 Cook Steps Down As Apple CEO

Apple has announced that Tim Cook, who has run the company for the past 15 years, will assume the role of Executive Chairman starting September 1.

Cook, 65, will be replaced as CEO by John Ternus, 50, who currently leads Apple's Hardware Engineering team. During Cook's time in charge, Apple's market value grew from $350 billion to $4 trillion.

Rumors about Ternus taking over as Apple's next CEO have been circulating since last year.

Who is the best Apple CEO?

❤️ — Tim Cook
🔥 — Steve Jobs

🐢 Turtle on a Skateboard

An owner put a small skateboard under his pet turtle to help it move faster. The video shows how active and playful turtles can be when they are not slowed down by the floor.

🦖 Dobot Shows Ultra-Realistic Robotic Dino

Chinese company Dobot has unveiled the third version of its Sinornithosaurus robot, a dinosaur that lived around 120 million years ago.

The new version breathes, has realistic artificial muscles and synthetic skin, and can respond to human commands and even touch.

Does it look like a real dinosaur?

❤️ — Yes!
👎 — No, just a plastic toy...

💬 OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5

The new model tops the benchmarks against its main rivals, Claude Opus 4.7 and Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, even outperforming GPT-5.4 Pro in some areas.

The model is built for agentic tasks and ease of use: GPT-5.5 figures out what you're trying to do and handles most of the work on its own.

💰 Paid ChatGPT subscribers are already getting access, but the API price is twice that of GPT-5.4: $5/$30 per 1M input/output tokens.

Is the price worth it?

❤️ — Yes, the best always costs more
🔥 — No, it's too much

🐳 DeepSeek-V4 Is Here

DeepSeek-V4 is out now, and it comes in two versions: Pro and Flash. Both have a 1 million token context.

✅ Pro is the best open model for coding and agent tasks. It knows a lot about the world, and its answer accuracy is only behind Gemini 3.1 Pro.

✅ Flash is almost as good as the flagship, but it's smaller, faster, cheaper, and more efficient.

➡️ You can try it for free right now in DeepSeek Chat.

Do you use DeepSeek?

❤️ — Yes
🔥 — No

🤩 Girl Finds Rare Endangered Axolotl In Welsh River

A 10-year-old girl discovered a rare Mexican axolotl while exploring a river in Bridgend, Wales.

According to experts, this is the first documented discovery of an axolotl in the wild in the UK, a species with only 50 to 1,000 left globally. It is believed that a former pet owner illegally released the animal.

After rescuing the injured creature, the family received expert approval to keep the axolotl, which they have named Dippy.

👨‍💻 Almost All Game Studios Use AI, But Are Afraid to Admit It

Almost all modern games already use neural networks in their development, although gamers probably don't notice it, says Jack Buser, head of gaming at Google Cloud. According to him, 9 out of 10 studios surveyed by the company admitted to using AI in their work.

However, large-scale industry research shows a much lower figure: between 40% and 50%. Buser explains that developers simply aren't ready to admit they use AI openly.

💰 Studios are practically forced to use AI to save costs. According to Buser, the cost of game development across the industry has almost doubled since 2017. AI models, while still a controversial technology, help with "heavy, repetitive, and low-value" work.

Would you play a game made with AI?

❤️ — Yes, no problem
🔥 — No, that's slop