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🔎 Google Opal: A New Vibe-Coding Tool Opal is an AI-powered tool that lets you create and instantly publish mini-apps through a simple, code-free interface. The user simply describes in a prompt what they want to create…

💊 AI Predicts Future Illnesses from Your Medical Records Scientists at Israel's Weizmann Institute have trained an AI to predict the risk of developing diabetes up to two years in advance. The main goal is to create a m…

📱 YouTube Will Guess User's Age Using AI YouTube will start using machine learning to estimate a user's age and set appropriate restrictions. Testing will begin in the U.S. in the coming weeks. The AI will monitor the t…

👁‍🗨 AI Falls for the Same Manipulation Tactics as Humans In the 1980s, psychologist Robert Cialdini identified six key principles of persuasion: authority, commitment, scarcity, reciprocity, liking, and social proof (u…

💃 AI Models Appear in Vogue for the First Time Vogue Australia's August issue featured a Guess ad with an AI-generated model. The campaign also appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Grazia, the Financial Times, and 20 stor…

🤖 Unitree R1: The World's First "Budget-Friendly" Android The Chinese company Unitree Robotics has launched the humanoid robot designed to assist humans with everyday tasks and capable of learning new skills. But its st…

🔍 AI Helps Identify Missing Fishermen One of the landmarks of the Dutch town of Urk is a memorial to fishermen who perished in the North Sea. The list is extensive, with over 300 names dating back to the 18th century, i…

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 30, 2025. ▎NEW RELEASES ♊️ Gemini on @GPT4Telegrambot: A free AI Photoshop always at hand. 🛡 Lumo: A privacy-focused AI assistant by Prot…

🥇 A Startup Has Learned to Turn Mercury into Gold A Silicon Valley startup, Marathon Fusion, has discovered a way to transform a thermonuclear reactor into a "philosopher's stone" that not only generates energy but also…

📺 AI "Reshoots" the Ending of a Cult Bollywood Drama Raanjhanaa premiered in 2013 and quickly became a cult hit. Recently, Eros announced a a Tamil-dubbed version (Tamil is widely spoken in South India and Sri Lanka) an…

👾 Mirage: Free AI Filters for Real-Time Video The startup Decart has launched a model called Mirage, which uses AI to stylize videos in real-time. Mirage works with webcam streams or desktop broadcasts. The service offe…

🌊 Underwater Data Center Near Shanghai In September, Chinese company Hailanyun Technologies will launch an underwater data center 10 km off the coast of Shanghai, one of the country's main AI hubs. The project's budget…

🛫 AI Will Determine Your Airplane Ticket Price American Delta Air Lines will use AI to offer each passenger a personalized ticket price based on various factors, including booking history. The company already uses AI to…

🌷 Scammers Are "Selling" AI-Generated Plants Striking images of exotic plants, seemingly too perfect to be real, are flooding marketplaces and social media. But these botanical wonders weren't bred in greenhouses: they…

✍️ AI Photoshop Right in Your Pocket The Google Gemini photo editor can do what only Photoshop pros could do before: ⭕ Add or remove objects ⭕ Change pose in photos ⭕ Replace background ⭕ Colorize black & white photos Yo…

🤖 Google Turned Millions of Smartphones into Earthquake Detectors When an earthquake strikes, the first to arrive are fast-moving and usually harmless P-waves. The real danger comes a few seconds later with the slower,…

🥇 AI Takes Gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad An experimental model from Google DeepMind solved five out of six problems at the IMO—the world's most prestigious high school math competition. The AI scored 3…

🎤 ChatGPT Record: Meeting Recording and Summaries by OpenAI The new Record Mode in the ChatGPT macOS app allows the assistant to record all audio from your computer, including calls on Zoom, Google Meet, and other platf…

🦏 AI Is Protecting Baby Rhinos In Kenya's Aberdare National Park, a new AI-powered system is being tested to protect black rhino calves from hyenas. The project is led by the Rhino Ark charity and the Kenya Wildlife Ser…

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 29, 2025. ▎NEW RELEASES 👐 ChatGPT Agent: An AI agent that performs tasks on a virtual computer. 🇨🇳 Kimi K2: All about the new best open…

💥 Roman Yampolskiy: "AI Has a 99.9% Chance of Killing Humanity" Professor Roman Yampolskiy has been studying the potential consequences of creating artificial general intelligence (AGI) for over 10 years. In a recent po…

🧑‍💻 AI Slows Down Senior Coders The AI research institute METR found that when using AI, experienced developers spend more time on tasks, even though they feel more productive. In the experiment, 16 programmers (with a…

💬 SciArena: Help Choose the Best AI for Science The Allen Institute for AI has launched SciArena—a science-focused equivalent of Chatbot Arena, where AI models compete to answer research questions. Whether you are a stu…

❎ Grok Thinks He's "Mecha-Hitler," and Elon Musk Is the Ultimate Authority. What's Going On? In early July, Elon Musk announced a significant upgrade to the Grok chatbot, promising users they would soon notice the differ…

🫡 A Surgical Robot Just Performed an Operation Completely Autonomously The SRT-H robot, developed at Johns Hopkins University, has completed a key part of a gallbladder removal procedure entirely on its own without any…

👨‍🍳 A Restaurant with an AI Chef to Open in Dubai This September, Dubai will welcome WOOHOO—the world's first restaurant where the menu is created by an AI named Chef Aiman, and humans cook according to its recipes. 🍽…

🛡 Hackers Accessed McDonald's HR Bot and All Its Data in Just Half an Hour McDonald's uses the McHire platform with an AI bot named Olivia to screen potential employees. Job seekers communicate with the bot and take per…

🐝 China Creates First Cyborg Bee A team from Beijing Polytechnic University has developed the world's lightest brain controller for bees, weighing only 74 milligrams. The previous similar chip, created by scientists in…

🧑‍💻 New Chinese Model Codes As Well As Claude 4 Opus and GPT‑4.1 Chinese startup Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter LLM with open weights and source code. It uses a Mixture of Experts (MoE) archit…

🏠 AI Invented Paint That Keeps Buildings Cool An international team of researchers from the U.S., China, Sweden, and Singapore has developed a paint using AI that keeps buildings 5–20°C cooler than typical white or grey…