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💰 OpenAI and Anthropic Mistakenly Billed $1.7M in AI Tokens Startup Vaudit found erroneous AI-service charges at 60 companies totaling roughly $1.7M—about 5% of all audited spending. Most of the examined invoices were t…

🤖 A Robot-Only Hotel Will Open in China The hotel will operate on an artificial island in Guangdong Province. It will have 44 luxury rooms, a restaurant, a gym and other functional areas. The maintenance staff will cons…

💡 Scientists Have Decoded the Songs of Zebra Finches Biologist Julie Eli from California spent more than 10 years recording and classifying the sounds of zebra finches using machine learning. These are tiny—and very soc…

💡 Telepathy Could Become Reality Soon, Says Musk The first attempts to connect people's brains via the Neuralink neural implant could happen as early as this year, Elon Musk wrote on X. He said this while commenting on…

💬 GPT-5.6 Is Here. But You Can't Use It Yet Apparently, after Anthropic's experience with the effective U.S. federal government block on Claude Fable, OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.6 in a closed preview available only to…

🤖 Korean Scientists Are Building a Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Researchers at KAIST have launched a project to develop a brain-to-robot interface that will let people control robotic limbs and an exoskeleton with their…

🔴 AI Presentations From a Single Prompt—Now on @GPT4Telegrambot Our AI bot can now handle one of the most time-consuming tasks for work and study—creating presentations. Just describe the topic, the visual style, and th…

🎓 Five Free Courses to Better Understand AI We selected five free courses that explain how data, algorithms, machine learning, and digital interfaces work. 1️⃣Calling Bullshit — University of Washington The course expla…

🔥 Sony Has Launched A Personal Air Conditioner Reon Pocket Pro Plus is a wearable device that helps regulate body temperature. It's useful in hot weather on public transit, outside, or in a stuffy office. In cold weathe…

💻 Jalapeño: OpenAI's First In-House AI Chip OpenAI unveiled its first in-house chip, Jalapeño. The accelerator was designed from scratch by OpenAI engineers, with support from Broadcom and Celestica. Jalapeño is built f…

👨 Check What AI Models Know About You People once Googled themselves to see what was online about them. Now, In the Weights—a service by former OpenAI employees Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn—shows you what AI models know…

❗️ AI Helped Separate the Twins Conjoined at the Skull Sisters Mercy and Goodness were born in Nigeria in June 2023 with partially fused skulls. Craniopagic twins who are attached to the skull are extremely rare—1 case p…

🔥 AI Is Being Blamed For Higher Gas Prices In The U.S. California drivers have filed a lawsuit against the state's largest gas station operators, including BP, Walmart, and 7-Eleven, alleging that the companies use AI t…

📌 The First Global Map of Underground Fungal Networks Scientists have produced the first global estimate of the vast underground networks formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. In the top 15 cm of soil alone, their thr…

🔄 Engineers from Texas Have Created a Jacket That Harvests Drinking Water from the Air The jacket's fabric is made of cellulose-based polymer fibers. The porous textile actively absorbs moisture directly from the air an…

📱 ChatGPT's Market Share Fell Below 50% for the First Time These are the recent findings by analysts at Sensor Tower. By the end of May, ChatGPT's share had dropped to 46.4% due to the growing shares of Gemini (27.7%) a…

✈️ Basketball Helped Students Understand Fractions Researchers in Denmark came up with a way to make math more engaging for students: teaching fractions and percentages on the basketball court. 309 students ages 11–13 we…

📱 The iPhone Tanked Birth Rates Researchers at the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research came to this conclusion. They compared birth rates from 2007 to 2011 in counties where AT&T dominated against "control" counti…

🎥 Five TV shows about AI and technology to watch instead of Black Mirror If you're in the mood for something about artificial intelligence, robots, virtual worlds, and technology—but don't feel like rewatching Black Mir…

🔴 Seedance 2 in @GPT4Telegrambot — Hollywood in Your Telegram Have you ever watched a commercial or a music video and thought: “I want this too, but without a studio, a film crew, and a budget in the thousands?” Now you…

💡 Five Books From the 20th Century That Saw AI Coming Long before any of us typed a prompt into ChatGPT, novelists had already sketched the logic AI runs on today. Here are five books in which the future showed up early…

🚀 Astronauts Will Wear Prada to the Moon Italian fashion house Prada unveiled the inner-layer garment for NASA astronauts headed to the Moon. The suit was developed together with Axiom Space. The body-hugging garment co…

📱 Smartphones Are About to Get More Expensive, Says Nothing CEO Carl Pei For example, Pei cites the production costs of the Nothing Phone (4a). The price of memory reportedly doubled in the months between the decision t…

✖ Claude Fable 5 Disabled Due to Government Demands Anthropic shut down access to the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models released on Tuesday, both for subscribers and via API. The government, citing "national security concerns,…

💰 Musk Becomes World's First Trillionaire Elon Musk's startup SpaceX went public. The company placed 555,555,555 shares at $135 each, raising $75 billion and reaching a market cap of $1.77 trillion. It instantly became…

💻 Websites Can Spy On You Through SSD Activity Researchers from Graz University of Technology have introduced a technique called FROST that can track which websites you visit or which apps you use based on SSD activity.…

🖼 Use Midjourney V8.1 via @GPT4Telegrambot Hi everyone! We've added a new version of one of the most aesthetic AI image generators to our bot. The new Midjourney V8.1 works three times faster than V7, delivering results…

📱 One in four Gen Z Would Rather Talk to AI Than a Real Person These are the findings of a recent survey of 2,000 Brits aged 18–29. Two-thirds of respondents said they had canceled plans with friends on more than one oc…