Hi, AI • Tech News

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 35, 2025. ▎NANO-BANANA ♊️ Google has introduced its new Gemini 2.5 Flash Image editing model. This "AI-Photoshop" edits images while prese…

🍿 "Mountainhead": A Black Mirror for the AI Industry From Jesse Armstrong, creator of the cult series Succession, comes a biting satire about four tech billionaires who retreat to a snowed-in house in Utah for a weekend…

🪼 Cyborg Jellyfish to Explore the World's Oceans Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have turned ordinary jellyfish into bio-robots by embedding microchips into them. These cyborgs will help explore t…

💤 AI Will Take Care of Your Sleep Eight Sleep, a startup that makes smart mattresses, has raised $100 million to develop sleep AI. Investors include Y Combinator and Ferrari Formula 1 star Charles Leclerc. Since 2019, t…

🎬 AI-Made Short Wins Best Director Award An AI-made short film has won Best Director at Koroche, Russia's annual short-film festival in Kaliningrad. "Perfectly Rejected," a nine-minute mockumentary by artist-filmmaker U…

📸 AI Will Help You Photograph Your Girlfriend! Jay Mo, a developer, introduced the Instagram Boyfriend Camera app on Twitter, which uses algorithms to recommend how to take the perfect shot ⤴️ 📸 How It Works? The algor…

🥵 Heat Ruins People's Mood, MIT Finds With AI Researchers from MIT and the Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzed 1.2 billion posts from Twitter and China's Weibo in 2019, written by users across 157 countries and in 65 d…

♊️ Google Updates Gemini AI Photo Editor Google Gemini 2.5 Flash model supports native image generation. It can not only describe pictures but also create and edit them. The new model topped the LMArena leaderboard, beat…

🎙 AI Gave a Woman Her Lost Voice Back After 25 Years Sarah Ezekiel, a 59-year-old artist from London, lost her voice at the age of 34 due to progressive amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (the same disease that Stephen Hawki…

🩹 Patch Instead of Needles for Blood Tests Researchers from North Carolina have developed a special patch that collects biomarker samples without drawing blood. Its surface is covered with numerous microneedles. When th…

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 34, 2025. ▎NEW RELEASES 🐳 DeepSeek V3.1: An upgraded model from a Chinese startup works free on @GPT4Telegrambot. 👐 ChatGPT now creates…

🧸 Soft Toys with AI: A Spy-Like Replacement for Tablets? The company Curio has launched plush toys with built-in voice chatbots. The idea is simple: replace kids' tablets with conversations with a cuddly friend. But som…

💡 "AI Images Should Be Considered a Separate Art Form" In 2023, Berlin-based artist Boris Eldagsen won the Sony World Photography Award with an image created using artificial intelligence (photo #1)—and refused the priz…

🐰 Why Do Rabbits in America Grow Horns? And How Is It Related to HPV? In northern Colorado, a large number of wild rabbits have been found with horn-like growths on their heads and faces. While these "horns" often resem…

🤖 Artificial Brain Controls a Robo-Dog Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new method for growing human brain organoids using graphene. The resulting artificial mini-brain was succes…

🐳 DeepSeek V3.1: Try for free on @GPT4Telegrambot Hi everyone! The Chinese startup DeepSeek has released V3.1: a huge update to its AI lineup. The model now uses reasoning and handles complex tasks, coding, math, and sc…

🥶 A "Smart" Jacket That Cools You Down Researchers at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics tackled the age-old problem of winter clothing: stand still and you're freezing, start moving and you're sweating.…

🖼️ Apple Is Developing AI-Powered Home Robots According to rumors, Apple is working on a lineup of AI home robots. The main novelty will be a desktop companion robot, essentially an iPad mounted on a robotic arm, visual…

🐔 Will Technology Help to End Animal Suffering? At any given time, over 23 billion animals are being raised on farms worldwide. According to some estimates, an average of 2,300 chickens are slaughtered every second, onl…

😎 HTC Unveils $520 Smart Glasses A Taiwanese HTC has revealed the VIVE Eagle glasses, a direct competitor to Meta's Ray-Ban and Oakley models. The key feature is the built-in VIVE AI voice assistant, which can switch be…

🎱 Can AI Predict the Future? The new benchmark Prophet Arena measures AI "predictive intelligence." Models read the news flow and make forecasts about world events. The authors claim their benchmark is unique. It tests…

🛑 Robots Will Not Carry Babies (Yet) Last week, the media reported that in 2026, a Chinese company, Kaiva Robotics, plans to release 2026 an android purportedly capable of gestating a baby to term using an artificial wo…

💬 AI Learned to "Read" Thoughts Scientists from Stanford have, for the first time, used AI to decipher what people were thinking and saying in their heads. The experiment's four participants, who had lost the ability to…

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 33, 2025. ▎TO READ 🤖 The first Robot Olympics have started in China. 🎮 A YouTuber has built a neuromuscular "AI cheat" for Counter-Strik…

🥇 China Hosts First "Olympics" for Robots From August 14 to 17, Beijing hosts the first World Humanoid Robot Games. The event draws 280 teams from 16 countries, ranging from school and university squads to major players…

🧑‍💻 Claude Beats 10,000 Students in Hacking Tournament Anthropic Claude Sonnet 3.7 recently competed in PicoCTF 2025, a student hacking competition. Contestants solved challenges in system exploitation, cryptography, r…

🐾 AI Accurately Recreated the Appearance of Ancient Humans BBC Studios Science Unit and NOVA have unveiled four photorealistic 3D reconstructions of prehistoric human species: Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis (often nick…

🎮 YouTuber Made a Neuromuscular "AI-Cheat" for CS2 YouTuber Basically Homeless built an aim helper for Counter-Strike that sends electric shocks straight to his arm muscles. The system pushed his reaction time below 100…

🥁 Robot Learns to Play Linkin Park and Nirvana on Drums Researchers from Italy and Switzerland have trained a virtual robot to play drums at a human level. Scientists placed 8,192 virtual Unitree G1 robots in Nvidia's "…