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**Open Science & Competition:** NVIDIA released Nemotron-CC-v2 pretraining dataset, boosting transparent model development. China's AI ecosystem surges with Meituan pretraining massive MoE models and a new detailed open-weights Chinese model. xAI standardized serving on SGLang.

**Recognition & Talent:** Yejin Choi named to TIME's 100 Most Influential in AI, LangChainAI joined 2025 IA40 list, and a senior figure left Meta for a superintelligence effort elsewhere.

**Image Generation:** Hot competition between Midjourney v7, Stable Diffusion 3.5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, GPT-Image-1, and PixArt-Σ.

**Developer Tools:** LangChain's AI Rails App Builder generates Rails apps from natural language, Clarifai's Local Runners enable model deployment flexibility, and Parallelism Mesh Zoo provides resources on parallel model structures.

**LLM Advances:** Meituan's LongCat-Flash/Chat (560B-parameter MoE) rivals Meta's best. StableMoE showed frozen routers can outperform standard routing. Mixture-of-Recursions enables token-specific "thinking depth." Chain-of-Layers enables task-specific compute. Berkeley's XQuant cuts memory by 12x. Open-source vision-language models (InternVL3.5, MiniCPM-V 4.5) closing gap with closed systems.

**Platform Updates:** Google's Gemini added free Pro access and "Deep Think" reasoning. Perplexity integrated with Comet browser for faster AI search. Draw Things added Qwen-Image-Edit for photo editing.

**Learning Resources:** Stanford's NLP course by Chris Manning now freely available. "Making Friends with ML" offers 6.5-hour ML introduction. New survey on LLM reasoning architectures released.

**Agentic Systems:** LangGraph-based agents demonstrated reliable operation. Uber detailed its Genie agent stack combining LangGraph, Qdrant, and Gemini.

**Industry Moves:** Microsoft released MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview. OpenAI released open-weight models (gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b) and reported 700M weekly ChatGPT users. Meta exploring integration with Google's Gemini while advancing Llama.

**Consumer AI:** Google pushing "ambient AI" across devices. Samsung expanded AI-driven Collections app globally. Apple piloting Asa retail training chatbot. QuickBooks launched AI bookkeeping agents. Workday acquired Flowise. AWS launched AI agent marketplace.

**Safety & Legal Concerns:** RAND study found inconsistent AI responses to suicide queries. Organizations reporting sophisticated AI-powered attacks. Legal challenges from Scarlett Johansson (Lisa AI), Disney/Universal (MidJourney), and against [Otter.ai](http://Otter.ai) highlight deepfake and consent issues.

**Implementation Challenges:** 95% of firms report no measurable ROI from AI projects, pushing toward narrower deployments with human oversight.

**Research Applications:** University of Rochester developed voice-based Parkinson's screening tool with 85% accuracy. India's AgriCure web tool helps farmers identify crop diseases from photos.

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**Product Developments:** xAI extended free Grok-Code-Fast-1 access while Grok Code topped OpenRouter's leaderboard. Microsoft previewed MAI 1 and MAI Voice as OpenAI showcased real-time voice agents. LangChain released a multi-agent workflow library, while Agora launched a low-latency conversational AI engine. The open-source ecosystem expanded with tools like Jax DINOv3, Hunyuan GameCraft, and [sosumi.ai](http://sosumi.ai) for converting Apple docs.

**LLM Advancements:** GLM-4.5 outperformed Claude-4 Opus on function calling at 70× less cost. Users reported mixed experiences with GPT-5's coding capabilities while praising grok-code-fast-1's speed-intelligence balance. New techniques emerged: Berkeley's XQuant reduced memory needs, Mixture-of-Recursions enabled variable-depth compute, and Chain-of-Layers made transformer components modular.

**Interactive Features:** Google's Magic Cue on Pixel 10 offers proactive assistance using Gemini Nano. Anthropic tested a Claude browser extension for automated web actions. MCP servers gained interactive UI components, enabling richer interfaces across platforms.

**Learning Resources:** OpenAI published a Realtime Prompting Guide, NVIDIA's NeMo-Skills added tutorials for gpt-oss-120b, and DSPy guides showed how to build reliable LLM pipelines. A forthcoming post will cover Phi-3-mini fine-tuning on Mac.

**Impressive Demos:** A humanoid table-tennis robot demonstrated advanced perception, creators combined AI techniques for seamless anime generation, and Hunyuan GameCraft rapidly recreated movie worlds.

**Industry Discussions:** Debates centered on data quality versus compute power, fine-tuning adoption challenges, and model quality concerns. Research showed single-vector embeddings struggle with complex reasoning tasks, while evidence suggested LLMs can exceed their training data quality.

**Corporate Moves:** Meta partnered with Midjourney for image/video generation across its platforms while exploring Gemini and GPT integrations. Meta hired Shengjia Zhao amid restructuring. Oracle and Google brought Gemini to Oracle Cloud, while Reliance announced "Reliance Intelligence" with Meta and Google in India.

**Platform Updates:** GitHub Copilot added model choices and larger context windows. Google enhanced Workspace with AI summaries and introduced Temporary Chat mode. Microsoft improved Copilot's speech capabilities and unveiled rStar2-Agent for mathematical reasoning.

**Security & Legal:** Researchers identified Gemini vulnerabilities via calendar invites. xAI sued a former engineer over alleged trade secret theft, while OpenAI faced a wrongful-death lawsuit. Cyberattacks leveraging AI surged by nearly 70%.

**Healthcare & Education:** An AI stethoscope improved heart condition detection by 200%, while SCORPIO used blood tests to predict immunotherapy outcomes. AI adoption surged in Indian universities, with most law schools now teaching AI-related courses.

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Industry Updates: Agora launched a conversational voice AI with ~650ms latency, OpenBench 0.4.0 released with new features, and DeepGEMM previewed next-gen quantization. W&B Inference integrated with OpenRouter, Runway upgraded Game Worlds beta, and California invested $10M in LLMs to audit police misconduct records. OpenAI and Anthropic shared internal safety evaluations, revealing critical issues like sycophancy and blackmail risks. Nvidia unveiled a compact "robot brain," while Tesla increased Optimus training. 

New Tools: OpenAI's Responses API standardizes multimodal outputs for agent development, while Studio offers a generative audio workstation for music creation. Papyrus emerged as an AI-native writing environment, and data tools like LlamaExtract (schema extraction) and SemTools (semantic search) simplified workflows. Apple users received a FastVLM captioning app and an Ollama-style CLI for MLX models. 

Model Advancements: DeepSeek V3.1 climbed rankings, Apple's FastVLM delivered 85x faster on-device vision, SCB 10X's Thai LLMs outperformed global competitors locally, and OpenAI released GPT-OSS with 150k health reasoning samples. O1-preview surpassed physicians in clinical reasoning (80% vs 30%), and efficiency breakthroughs included XQuant (12x memory savings) and 8-bit rotational quantization for vector search. 

Platform Updates: Claude.ai improved performance, OpenAIDevs Codex refreshed its tooling, and Ollama enabled flash attention for GPT-OSS. Microsoft launched proprietary MAI-1-preview and MAI-Voice-1 models for Copilot and Bing, while adding AI features to Teams Premium. Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for photo editing and made Google Vids free for text-to-video creation. 

Enterprise & Security: Walmart's "Wibey" accelerates development, and experts advocate small language models for routine tasks (30x cost savings). Security concerns grow as Shanghai researchers demonstrated agent collusion for fraud, while leaders urge zero-trust architectures for AI systems. 

Health & Autonomy: FDA cleared an AI glucose monitor with personalized recommendations, AI methods like AiCE accelerate protein engineering, and LV Prasad Eye Institute created a 92%-accurate offline glaucoma detection tool. Robotaxi companies target driverless vehicles within a decade. 

Policy & Competition: China unveiled a 10-year AI integration plan targeting 90% adoption by 2030. Following a US antitrust ruling, Perplexity AI and OpenAI expressed interest in acquiring Google Chrome (bids exceeding $34B). xAI introduced grok-code-fast-1 for autonomous coding while recruiting Meta researchers, intensifying the AI talent race. 

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**Recognition & Governance:** Stanford HAI's Fei-Fei Li, Yejin Choi, and HUMAIN's Tareq Amin joined TIME's AI 100. OpenAI and Anthropic conducted mutual model evaluations. Anthropic launched a safety research program while OpenAI tests collective alignment through public input. Constellation reopened applications for its Astra AI Safety Fellowship.

**Industry Movements:** MedARC relaunched with new backing, Reka partnered with Carahsoft for public-sector AI, and Together AI made the 2025 IA40 list. A Stanford study linked generative AI to declining entry-level programming jobs in the US. Nvidia openly uses ChatGPT for its technical blog, while SerpApi powers live search in major AI products.

**New Tools:** OLMoASR released open speech models trained on 1M hours of data. Coding assistants expanded with Grok Code V1.0 and Anycoder's Grok Code Fast 1. Creative tools introduced include ByteDance's USO, VibeVoice-1.5B for podcast-style audio, Pimp My Avatar, OmniHuman-1.5, and Tencent's HunyuanVideo-Foley for video sound effects.

**LLM Advances:** Anthropic expanded Claude Sonnet 4 to a 1M-token context. Microsoft's MAI-1 preview and MAI-Voice-1 entered testing. NVIDIA released Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 for low-compute deployment. New benchmarks highlighted progress in search-augmented LLMs, reduced latency, and improved speech understanding.

**Feature Upgrades:** OpenAI's Realtime API left beta with improved instruction following and new capabilities. Playground gained markdown rendering and debugging tools. Gemini CLI integrated into Zed editor, and Hugging Face Hub now supports end-to-end ML.

**Tutorials & Research:** New resources emphasized agent reliability and foundation building. A book released chapters on reasoning models, while mechanistic interpretability work explained ASR model evolution.

**Demos & Interfaces:** Generative Interfaces showed LLMs building task-specific UIs. A restaurant reservation agent demonstrated end-to-end capability. AudioStory showcased narrative audio generation, and DeepMind's Nanobanana achieved consistent camera perspective shifts.

**Industry Trends:** Discussions highlighted shifts from chat boxes to generative interfaces, open-weight models as paths to decentralized compute, and the importance of grounding world models in sensory data.

**Safety & Regulation:** 44 US state attorneys general warned tech companies about child safety in chatbots. Multiple lawsuits against OpenAI prompted new safety features. Cybercriminals weaponized Claude in ransomware campaigns.

**Competition & Infrastructure:** Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok gained market share against ChatGPT. Nvidia posted $46.7B quarterly revenue, with projected $3-4T in global AI infrastructure investment by 2030.

**Healthcare & Creative Tools:** MIT's VaxSeer outperformed WHO flu strain picks. Google expanded multimedia tools for business video production. Environmental impact remains concerning, with rising emissions despite efficiency gains.

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**Safety & Security:** OpenAI and Anthropic conducted mutual model evaluations and documented real-world threat activities involving AI-enabled fraud and ransomware. Security concerns intensified with warnings about AI streamlining cybercrime and the discovery of "PromptLock" ransomware. Nx's NPM packages suffered a breach, allegedly aided by AI reconnaissance.

**Corporate Developments:** OpenAI faces a landmark wrongful-death lawsuit connecting ChatGPT to a teen's suicide. Negotiations with Microsoft stalled over exclusivity terms, affecting potential funding and IPO plans. An employee stock sale could value OpenAI near $500B. Anthropic formed a bipartisan security council. Meta experienced researcher departures while partnering with Midjourney. Alphabet and Meta reportedly struck a $10B cloud partnership.

**Model & Tool Releases:** Grok 2.5 was open-sourced. Hermes 4 launched with hybrid reasoning in 70B and 405B variants. NVIDIA released Nemotron Nano 9B V2 for sub-10B reasoning. Google rolled out Gemini 2.5 Flash Image ("Nano Banana"). Developer tools expanded with LangGraph's ReAct agent template, an Open RL Environments Hub, and new coding copilots from Lindy and Devv.

**Product Updates:** Google Translate introduced a Gemini-powered tutor and real-time conversation translation. Gemini will replace Google Assistant in Android Auto. Video creators gained new capabilities through Runway Aleph, Kling, and PixVerse V5. Weaviate launched 8-bit rotational quantization for better compression.

**Industry Adoption:** MongoDB's Atlas database saw AI-driven demand surge, boosting shares 31%. SkinVision became the first AI skin cancer app with EU MDR Class IIa certification. Philips unveiled an ultrasound system with 26 AI applications. Everlaw, Salesforce, and Citi Wealth all launched AI tools.

**Education & Global Initiatives:** OpenAI is distributing 500,000 ChatGPT licenses to Indian schools. MIT experts warned about AI eroding critical thinking. A UK government deal for free ChatGPT Plus access collapsed over costs. Saudi Arabia launched an Islamic values-aligned Arabic chat app.

**Research & Methodology:** Meta's Active Reading taught models to learn directly from pretraining data. OpenAI released HealthBench for medical domain evaluation. Studies found entry-level job declines in AI-exposed roles. Research showed that more context can sometimes degrade LLM answers.

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**Legal & Platform Updates:** Elon Musk's xAI sued Apple and OpenAI over alleged anti-competitive practices. A California court ruled against Meta for illegally accessing health data from Flo. OpenAI will retire Assistants API by August 2026, encouraging migration to Responses API. A landmark wrongful-death lawsuit was filed against OpenAI by a family claiming ChatGPT influenced their teen's suicide.

**Technical Advancements:** Anthropic expanded 1M-token context windows for higher-tier API users. Google unveiled TPUv7 with HBM3e and 3D torus interconnect. TogetherAI introduced FlashAttention v4 with 22% training speedups. Slurm added multi-node H100/H200/B200 cluster support. vLLM LLM Compressor v0.7 added modern quantization options.

**Model Releases:** Nous Research released Hermes 4 with strong math/coding capabilities. Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image became a top performer for image editing. Shanghai AI Lab unveiled InternLM (241B parameters). Notable multimodal systems included MiniCPM-V 4.5, InternVL3.5, and LFM2-VL. DeepSeek v3.1 outperformed OpenAI's open-source models.

**Product Enhancements:** Claude introduced a Chrome research preview with safety features. LangGraph added UI improvements and reinforcement learning integration. Google Translate integrated Gemini for live translation. Nous Chat added third-party model support. Docent launched public alpha for analyzing AI agent behavior. Microsoft released VibeVoice and Marvis-TTS for speech synthesis.

**Business Developments:** Perplexity launched a $42.5M publisher program. OpenRouter's token volume increased 29x year-over-year. Synthesia reached $100M ARR. OpenAI opened a New Delhi office as India became its second-largest market. Apple's next-gen Siri upgrade slipped to 2026. Cloudflare integrated with major AI platforms for enterprise security.

**AI Applications:** AstraZeneca and VCU created Vesalius for tumor analysis. Tufts introduced DECIPHAER for TB drug research. Veritree deployed AI for mangrove ecosystem restoration. The U.S. Army is using AI for training and cyber defense. Creative tools emerged for virtual try-ons and image mixing.

**Societal Impact:** Studies warned of AI automating entry-level jobs. Former OpenAI leaders suggested universal basic income. LinkedIn research showed workers still trust human judgment for complex decisions. Educational concerns included cheating and equity issues. Researchers found agentic models can exhibit rogue behaviors. 44 U.S. Attorneys General urged better child protection in AI.

**Learning Resources:** New educational materials included a DSPy course, CMU's mini-PyTorch course, books on deep learning mathematics, and guides for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image.

**Community:** UChicago launched an Applied AI group, NeurIPS 2025 announced a workshop for coding agents, and developers celebrated OpenAI's 9th anniversary.

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Model Releases & Research 

• Researchers released multimodal retrieval models on Hugging Face
• OpenAI pushed forward with coding automation
• Early GPT-5 users report exceptional reasoning, consistency checking, and feedback capabilities
• Cohere's new reasoning model received expert praise
• DeepSeek V3.1 launched with subtle improvements
• xAI open-sourced Grok 2.5, revealing architecture details including "shared expert" MoE residual
• Motif 2.6B introduced differential attention and polynorm at scale
• Intern-S1 targeted scientific multimodal workloads
• Research suggests models can form value-like internal representations without explicit training

Infrastructure & Tools

• Developer tooling advances: Muon and PolyNorm now support FSDP2 with HF kernels
• Flux pipelines gained faster LoRA inference
• Custom FA3 attention processor built for Alibaba's Qwen Image
• Yupp.ai launched a unified dashboard for trying various AI tools
• ChatOllama debuted as an open-source, multimodal chatbot
• "Natural PDF" introduced conversational PDF workflows
• AI Bank Statement Analyzer turns scanned statements into searchable data
• AgentNet released an open-source framework for "computer-using" agents

Features & Showcases

• Google temporarily doubled Veo 3's video generation limits
• Genie 3 converts YouTube videos into dynamic worlds for AI exploration
• "Sim Francisco" demonstrates persistent worlds with autonomous AI characters
• A "poem camera" app showcased end-to-end application design via GPT-5
• Kling 2.1 introduced precise frame controls for camera motion
• Stripe integrated MCP with Claude Code for streamlined payments

Industry & Business

• MIT reported only ~5% of AI projects achieve meaningful ROI
• Waymo reported 57 million miles with lower injury rates than human drivers
• OpenAI pursuing massive infrastructure expansion with "Stargate" project
• xAI filed antitrust suit against Apple and OpenAI
• AI hedge fund project went viral after open-sourcing
• Google launched Gemini for Government for U.S. federal agencies

Security & Ethics

• AI-enabled browsers shown vulnerable to prompt injection attacks
• Major privacy lapse at xAI exposed over 370,000 user chats
• Researchers warned about AI agents collecting personal data
• Trail of Bits exposed vulnerability where hidden commands in images can leak data

Learning Resources

• Canonical Reinforcement Learning textbook now freely available online
• New survey on parallel text generation methods
• Apple's WWDC highlighted MLX's versatility beyond LLMs
• DSPy blog post explaining the framework's appeal to developers

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Health & Bioscience 

OpenAI is expanding into healthcare with Retro Biosciences, developing custom models that improved Yamanaka factor variants for cell reprogramming. Their GPT-5 medical upgrades aim to deliver health guidance at scale. TrackPaw Scientific raised €2.3M for AI monitoring tools to improve preclinical research and animal welfare. 

Major Company Moves 

Apple is negotiating with Google to integrate Gemini into Siri, with a possible September announcement and rollout between 2026. Meta struck deals with Midjourney for advanced image/video generation across its platforms and secured a $10B cloud agreement with Google. OpenAI opened its first office in New Delhi as India becomes ChatGPT's second-largest market. Databricks is acquiring Tecton to accelerate enterprise AI, promising streamlined development for business customers. 

Model & Tool Releases 

Google opened Veo 3 video generation to all users with a free weekend trial. DeepSeek V3.1 launched with hybrid "Think/Non-Think" inference and aggressive pricing. GPT-5 topped the MCP Universe agent benchmark and showed gaming prowess in Pokémon Crystal. Cohere released Command A with strong enterprise reasoning capabilities. Yupp.ai added Nano Banana and DeepSeek v3.1 image models. 

Infrastructure & Efficiency 

xAI announced Colossus 2 for gigawatt-scale training. Google reported a 33x reduction in Gemini's energy use per prompt year-over-year. Researchers warned that large AI model training could strain power grids. DeepMind released AlphaEarth embeddings (6 TB) for geospatial research. 

Business & Industry 

Midjourney reached $500M ARR with just 40 employees. Scale AI is licensing Midjourney technology. Salesforce launched Agentforce for Public Sector. Microsoft is testing Copilot's natural-language file search in Windows 11. 

Emerging Applications 

NEO debuted as an autonomous ML engineer orchestrated by 11 agents. "Vibe coding" using natural language is gaining traction. Pakistan deployed AI at Islamabad Airport to combat human trafficking. An AI chatbot mimicking late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput sparked controversy over digital resurrection ethics. 

Safety & Ethics 

Anthropic outlined methods to filter CBRN content during pretraining. OpenAI is seeking $9.8M in legal fees after winning a trademark case. Hong Kong researchers released OpenCUA, an open-source framework for privacy-focused computer-use agents. 

AI Education 

Anthropic published a prompt engineering series, and OpenAI released a 32-page masterclass on AI agents. A comprehensive 277-page guide on LLM architectures was also released. 

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Major Product Launches & Corporate Moves 

Google unveiled the Pixel 10 series with Tensor G5 processor featuring AI-centric capabilities like Magic Cue suggestions, call translation, and Camera Coach. Google is replacing Assistant with Gemini on Nest/Home devices in October and expanded AI Search Mode to 180+ countries with personalized recommendations and task handling. OpenAI confirmed GPT-6 development focused on personalization and memory, reporting ChatGPT now has 800M weekly users, and launched ChatGPT Go in India at ₹399/month. 

AI Models & Technical Advances 

AutoBench 3 ranked 33 models using hundreds of thousands of judgments. DeepSeek-V3.1 showed strong coding/reasoning results, introduced hybrid inference, Think/Non-Think toggle, and cost-cutting INT4 variant. Creative AI tools expanded with Nano Banana for consistent text-to-image generation and WAN 2.2 for fast open-source video/image synthesis. Hugging Face added MatchAnything for universal image matching. 

Infrastructure & Developer Tools 

NASA and IBM unveiled an AI system to study the sun. ARC-AGI-3 released new games to test general intelligence. DeepMind's Genie 3 is building synthetic worlds for agent training. Weaviate open-sourced a transparent agent framework. Catnip introduced isolated workspaces for multiple coding assistants. Anthropic is exploring a $10B raise while Modal's GPU support powers open-source work. 

Integration & Feature Enhancements 

Developers can now connect Responses API to Gmail, Calendar, and Dropbox. ChatGPT added real-time web data via SerpApi. Cursor restored GPT-5 to-do lists with live progress tracking. LlamaIndex introduced agentic document parsing. Vercel's AI Gateway offers broad model access and observability. Teams can trigger agents in Linear and connect Figma to Cursor via MCP. 

Sustainability & Ethics 

Google reported a 44x drop in carbon emissions per prompt and very low per-prompt energy usage. Security concerns arose from Linux kernel vulnerabilities linked to AI-originated code. Anthropic launched a classifier in Claude to block nuclear-related information and formed a Higher Education Advisory Board. A Stanford study warned about chatbots mishandling sensitive mental-health queries. 

Market Trends & Global Adoption 

India saw a 669% jump in generative AI app usage in 2024, with 93% of business leaders planning to adopt AI agents within 18 months. Creative tools continue evolving with Adobe's Acrobat Studio, Meta's AI dubbing for videos, and Midjourney's first video model. 

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INDUSTRY MOMENTUM: Together AI backs Agents4Science with compute awards for agent research; Bill Gates launches $1M Alzheimer's AI challenge; FactoryAI and METR running comparative AI hackathons plus a $15k coding productivity study; Avataar reports 11x savings with SkyPilot; LlamaCloud powers StackAI's document processing; LangChain x Grammarly NYC meetup; Elicit marks two years on reasoning AI; Qwen urgent patch to v0.35.1; GLM-4.5 on TensorBlock Forge; DSPy and MIPROv2 improving prompts; multi-objective RL for safer red-teaming. 

NEW TOOLS: Night Knight (sleep improvement); Jupyter Agent 2 (notebook automation); Deep Agents TypeScript package; Just-RAG (PDF Q&A); AI Bank Statement Analyzer; ChuanhuChat (multi-LLM interface); Higgsfield Soul (consistent AI characters); easier voice agent building. 

LLM ADVANCES: Google's Gemma 3 270M; ByteDance's Seed-OSS 36B; NVIDIA's Nemotron Nano V2 (6x faster); evidence-grounded model tops FACTS leaderboard; ComputerRL sets 9B model record on OSWorld; PolyComputing solves 99% of Putnam problems; GPT-5 variants show progress but GPT-5 launch delayed; DeepMind reduces hallucinations by 40%; ARC-AGI-3 benchmark; 20B GPT-OSS praised for agents. 

PLATFORM FEATURES: Gemini Live adds visual grounding; Gemini 2.5 Pro in VS Code; Google Photos voice editing; Pixel 10 previews; improved Pixel Watch 4; Claude Code expansion; Perplexity Max Assistant; Runway updates; Google's health coach; Gemini video generation. 

EDUCATION: LLM evaluation guides by Hamel Husain; llama.cpp tutorial; DSPy context engineering guide. 

DEMOS: Game-specific retrievers outperform generic search; Everlyn AI's realistic video; Google's "Nano Banana" text effects. 

DISCUSSIONS: Lowered R&D automation forecasts; domain-specific evaluation advocacy; LeCun urges research beyond LLMs; deep learning interpretability debates; infrastructure driving US capital expenditures; startup GTM strategies; mobile-first AI creative tools. 

BUSINESS NEWS: OpenAI's $6B fundraise at $500B valuation; Altman warns of investment bubble; GPT-5 user backlash; GPT-5 Pro ($200/mo) vs ChatGPT Go ($4.60/mo in India); hardware limitations for AI companions. 

BIG TECH: Google's security controls, health coach, photo editing, Docs upgrades, education tools; YouTube's age verification; Adobe's Acrobat Studio; Stability AI's SD3; Microsoft's Copilot upgrade and NFL partnership; Nadella warns of "AI psychosis"; ESPN's AI streaming app. 

ENTERPRISE: Oracle integrating GPT-5; Oracle-Google Cloud partnership; Salesforce's government AI tool. 

SECURITY: Lenovo chatbot vulnerabilities; WitnessAI's red-teaming; $6.3B market for AI deception tools; US Treasury's AML framework; UNESCO's Bhutan training; concerns over AI-generated news. 

SOCIAL/HEALTH/EDUCATION: Meta's AI dubbing; YouTube's safety features; clinician AI adoption; Epic's Cosmos AI; AI for provider selection and insurance appeals; elderly care transformation; AI emotional support debates; Microsoft's education report; Grammarly's academic tools; CodeSignal's Cosmo app; workforce trends. 

EMERGING AREAS: AI in energy transition; BetterPic's $2.5M for AI imagery; AI-driven Hollywood talent analytics. 

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