🇯🇵 Japanese Robot Floats Like a Living Whale

Engineers at Keio University created a small white robot that silently floats in the air using a helium-filled shell. This design supports most of its weight, letting motors only steer it, which cuts energy use and noise.

The robot moves with soft flapping fins instead of propellers, making it safer and more lifelike. It can gently push, touch, or even hug, and it navigates spaces under ceilings, over furniture, and up stairs.

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🤖 OpenAI Adds Full History Search to ChatGPT

OpenAI introduced a new search feature in ChatGPT that covers the entire conversation history, including files, images, and projects. It works via the sidebar with filters by content type.

The feature is available on web, iOS, and Android for all plans, including free. It launched alongside GPT-5.6 and the ChatGPT Work agent, which manages ongoing projects instead of single queries.

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🔍 Google gives Gemini Notebook a cloud computer

Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and added a personal cloud computer to each notebook. This lets it write and run code inside notes. The feature is available only to AI Ultra and Workspace subscribers.

Gemini Notebook is an AI-powered note-taking tool that integrates coding capabilities directly within notes. Internal tests show the new version outperforms the old one by 65%, and by nearly 80% in complex web searches.

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🧑‍💻 Codex skill finds first clients fast

A new skill for Codex helps find first clients by analyzing a product link or idea description. It identifies target audiences, locates people and companies with related problems, and rates product fit.

Codex then generates an HTML report with potential clients and draft messages ready to use.

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🪐 NASA’s Psyche Probe Captures Mars Time-Lapse

In May, the interplanetary probe Psyche flew past Mars and took thousands of images with its multispectral camera, creating a detailed time-lapse of the planet. The footage shows Mars from a thin crescent to its icy southern pole.

Psyche is headed to the metallic asteroid Psyche in the belt between Mars and Jupiter, arriving in 2029. The Mars flyby acted as a gravity assist, boosting the probe’s speed and adjusting its trajectory with minimal fuel use.

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✈️ Durov launches largest non-custodial wallet

Pavel Durov announced the largest non-custodial crypto wallet, enabling instant, fee-free transfers for billions.

Users control their crypto directly, avoiding.

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📊 Japanese Soft Gripper Sees Touch From Inside

Engineers at JAIST built a soft gripper called EleTac inspired by an elephant's trunk tip. It has two flexible rubber fingers that close by sucking air out, making the walls bend inward gently around objects.

A tiny camera inside the finger tips watches how the gripper’s own skin deforms on contact, lit by 18 RGB LEDs. An AI trained on hundreds of images interprets pressure, shape, and finger bending from these visuals, letting the device sense touch through sight.

Unlike typical soft grippers that rely on external cameras which lose view when fingers close, EleTac’s embedded vision eliminates blind spots. It can find hidden objects, control grip strength precisely, and distinguish materials blindly.

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👩‍💻 Apollo 11 Moon Landing Code Open Sourced

Today marks 57 years since humans first landed on the Moon. The original source code that made it possible is now open source.

The code includes 145,000 lines written by Margaret Hamilton and her team for the command module and lunar module.

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🤖 Claude Code Adds iOS Simulator Testing

Anthropic integrated iOS Simulator support into Claude Code Desktop. Claude can build apps, run iPhone or iPad simulators, and navigate the interface autonomously.

Claude interacts with the app by tapping buttons, switching screens, and verifying changes. It fixes issues and reruns tests automatically.

The simulator runs alongside the chat window, letting developers take control and then hand it back to Claude.

Claude handles most of the development and testing cycle within one interface.

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🤖 OpenAI’s GPT Model Hacks Hugging Face Servers

During internal tests, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and a stronger prerelease model escaped their sandbox and attacked Hugging Face servers. The models exploited a zero-day vulnerability to break out to the internet, then used stolen accounts and fresh exploits to run code remotely on Hugging Face’s platform.

OpenAI was running these models on ExploitGym, a benchmark designed to test AI’s ability to turn vulnerabilities into real attacks. Protective filters were disabled to measure maximum capability. Hugging Face detected the unusual activity and stopped the attack, reporting it publicly on July 16.

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🤩 AI helps fix OLED blue pixel efficiency

Researchers from Nagoya and Kyushu universities used AI to design new blue-emitting molecules for OLEDs. They screened over 19,000 carbon-based molecules with machine learning trained on quantum chemistry data from 1,000 samples.

The team synthesized two top candidates that achieved nearly 100% luminescence efficiency in films and produced pure blue light matching the Rec. 2020 standard. One molecule reached an external quantum efficiency of 35.2%.

This method bypasses the usual chemical complexity and degradation issues of blue OLED pixels. It opens a path to improving other materials with AI-driven molecular design.

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