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🔬 AI Developed a New Approach to Treating COVID Researchers from Stanford and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub have created a virtual laboratory where AI scientists tackle real medical challenges. In just a few days, the agents d…

🧂 Man Suffers Psychosis After AI-Prescribed "Diet" A 60-year-old American man was recently admitted to a psychiatric ward after taking sodium bromide for three months following the advice of ChatGPT as a "healthier" alt…

🤖 "Underground" Robot Combats Debut in San Francisco An arena was set up in the basement of a 16‑story Frontier Tower. The whole vibe was pure cyberpunk: neon lights, techno beats, dazzling outfits, drinks in acid color…

🧠 Scientists Have Grown an Analogue of an Entire Human Brain Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have created the world's first organoid that mimics an entire human brain, complete with blood vessels and full neural…

🦠 Scientists Decoded Genome of Early "Spanish Flu" An international team from the Universities of Basel and Zurich assembled the full genome of the 1918 influenza virus (H1N1) from lung tissue that had been stored in fo…

🔒 Private AI Chatbots: A Safer Shortlist After tens of thousands of private AI chats briefly showed up in search results, one thing is clear: everything online leaves a trail. Here are privacy-first options that help ke…

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 32, 2025. ▎GPT-5 IS HERE 👐 OpenAI has released GPT-5. Best model at coding and science, fewer hallucinations, unified basic and "reasonin…

🧠 Will AI Outsmart Human Intelligence? Lecture by Geoffrey Hinton The "godfather of AI" and winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, Geoffrey Hinton, explained in a new lecture why he believes that artificial intellig…

♟ o3 Trounces Grok 4 in Chess Tournament Final OpenAI's o3 model swept Grok 4 four games to none in the final of the first chess tournament between large language models, held August 5-7 on the Kaggle Game Arena platform…

🌿 VR As a Pain Reliever Virtual reality nature scenes could help with chronic pain, according to researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK. In the experiment, 30 healthy volunteers had their forearms stimulated…

👐 GPT-5 Is Here: The Most Powerful AI System In The World Yes, GPT-5 isn't a single model but an "AI system." A user's request in ChatGPT is analyzed by an algorithm that selects which model should handle it. Main Featu…

😇 Ozzy Osbourne Selfies from Heaven: AI Tribute to the "Prince of Darkness" Sparks Controversy British rock legend Rod Stewart used AI-generated footage to pay tribute to Black Sabbath co-founder Ozzy Osbourne, who pass…

🖥 China Secretly Building a Giant "Data Center City" China is constructing a massive complex of data centers in Xinjiang, aiming to position itself as a global leader in the AI race by 2030. The project involves buildin…

🇸🇪 Sweden's Prime Minister Consults ChatGPT When Making Decisions Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson recently shared in an interview that he regularly consults AI for guidance in running the country. "I use it myse…

❎ Grok's Video Generator: Fast, but Still Raw Grok Imagine is a new AI video generator from xAI, now integrated into the X app—but only for paying users. Elon Musk calls it the "AI version of Vine": short, emotional, vir…

👐 OpenAI Releases Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 The larger model, with 120 billion parameters, performs between o3 and o4-mini levels and is designed for launch in data centers. The smaller one, with 20 billi…

🔚 Three "Universal" Prompting Techniques No Longer Work Researchers at Wharton AI Labs put three popular prompt-writing tips to the test. They evaluated each method using graduate-level questions on models from OpenAI,…

🩸American Scientists Have Created Artificial Blood A team of doctors from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and medtech startup KaloCyte has developed synthetic blood called ErythroMer, which can be used for…

🦾 Korean Scientists Have Created a Robotic Arm with a "Nervous System" Korean scientists have developed a technology that mimics the sensory system of living organisms. The nervous system reacts differently to neutral s…

📱 The 40 Jobs Most Influenced by AI, According to Microsoft Researchers at Microsoft analyzed more than 200,000 users' dialogues with the Bing Copilot chatbot to understand how people use generative AI for work. Based o…

📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 31, 2025. ▎NEW RELEASES ♊️ Gemini 2.5 Deep Think: A new, state-of-the-art language model. 🔎 Google Opal: A vibe-code platform for buildin…

🌱 Potatoes Evolved from a Tomato Ancestor Scientists have just solved a mystery that has puzzled biologists for years: how the potato developed tubers. Above ground, today's potato plant is visually similar to a wild sp…

🎵 AI Music Evokes Stronger Emotions Than Human-Composed Music Researchers discovered that AI-generated music elicits stronger emotional responses in people. The 88 participants watched the same videos but heard differen…

🖥 How His Father's Death Led Dario Amodei to AI Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a recent interview that the death of his father was what first led him to study artificial intelligence. His father, Riccardo Amodei, di…