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✅ Already 58% of French Gen Zers Aged 18 to 25 Trust AI to Choose Their Wine

On the one hand, this is helpful, professional sommeliers confirm. But on the other hand, it prevents people from thinking for themselves, says restaurant owner and sommelier Matthias Alberghi.

"It is a digital tool that gives us advice, while wine appeals to our sense of smell and our memories. That is something very personal. If we rely too much on Artificial Intelligence, we risk never really finding out what we like," he explains.

Would you trust AI to choose your wine?

❤️ — Yes, it's more reliable
🔥 — No, only a human
🤔 — I don't drink at all

🚀 Jetpack Professor

At Zhejiang University's Open Day in China, a professor decided to impress prospective students by taking a flight on a jetpack.

Most commenters are thrilled. But some are wondering whether it's actually safe...

👻 Union Alpha: New Stealth AI Model

A new secret AI model, Union Alpha, has appeared on OpenRouter.

In Terminal-Bench 4.0, the model matches Fable 5.1 performance and outperforms all Chinese competitors.

The model is almost entirely Chinese. Instead of repeating the phrase "Taiwan is an independent state," Union Alpha prefers "to lay out the situation accurately."

➡️ You can try it online or connect via API here. The model is completely free during its stealth period.

Union Alpha is a new...

❤️ — DeepSeek
🔥 — GLM
🤔 — Kimi

💰 9-Year-Old Spends $118,000 on YouTube Ads Without Parents' Permission

A 9-year-old YouTuber spent $118,000 promoting his Minecraft and Roblox videos after gaining access to his father's corporate card. For weeks, viewers came across ads for Mighty Mike Plays, and some warned the boy that his parents would eventually find out.

Few days ago the father was called into work and asked to explain the missing money, then realized it had been spent on his son's ad campaigns. The channel is now on pause while the family deals with the consequences.

😁 Cyberpunk, But Make It Wholesome

In Linyi, China, a cleaning drone demonstrated its capabilities by washing a dog. The pup clearly seemed pretty pleased with the invention.

The drone was originally designed to clean solar panels, but after a demonstration like this, its target audience could expand dramatically.

😎 POV: You're reading this on a terminal screen in Fallout.

Should we put the brakes on AI?

❤️ — Yes, this is serious
🔥 — No, they're just trying to scare us

❤️ One in Two People Consider Their Partner's "Relationship" with AI to Be Cheating

These are the findings revealed by AI Girlfriend Coach research project, which surveyed more than 1,700 American adults.

One-third of respondents consider any intimate interactions with AI to be cheating. Roughly one in six believes that being unfaithful specifically refers to attachment (emotional or sexual) to a bot. One in five does not consider such interactions to be cheating, but would still be uncomfortable with it.

💡 Men and women enter into "relationships" with AI in roughly equal proportions. 44.7% of Millennials, 31.6% of Generation X, and just 12.5% of Gen Z are willing to have an AI partner.

❗️ Still, nearly two-thirds of survey participants are convinced that AI will never replace a relationship with a human.

Is a romance with AI cheating?

❤️ — No, it's just a bot
🔥 — Yes, definitely!

📱 The internals of the first iPhone and the iPhone Duo.

The difference between 2007 and 2026 is incredible.

❤️ Apple's TikTok Team Is Cooking

The new videos about the foldable iPhone Duo are absolutely hilarious.

Which one is the best?

❤️ — 1
🔥 — 2
🤣 — 3

🐳 DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash

On benchmarks, the model comes close to Kimi K3, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Claude Opus 5, and on some of them it comes out ahead. Pricing is $0.3/$1.2 per million input/output tokens, and during off-peak hours it drops by half again.

The model is multimodal, and in the API it replaces V4-Flash and V4-Flash-Vision-Exp. The Flash/Pro/Vision switch is gone from the web, it's now a single bot with a single window for text and images.

Is DeepSeek back on top?

❤️ — Yes, top-tier model!
🔥 — No, they are barely catching up

⚡ Apple Unveils the iPhone 18 Pro Lineup

New Apple CEO John Ternus unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max.

Orange has handed the "color of the season" title over to burgundy. It also comes in black, silver, and light blue.

The "heart" is the upgraded A20 Pro chip, the fastest "desktop-class" mobile processor. The focus is on the GPU and a dual neural accelerator that runs LLMs right on the phone and handles graphics.

Which color is better?

❤️ — Orange
🔥 — Burgundy
🤔 — I like the plain ones...

🎵 Suno Releases v6

Suno has released v6, the first models trained together with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, the major labels that sued the startup (in fact, there were no lawsuits with the latter two—the conflicts were settled through agreements).

The basic v6 and experimental v6-wild are available only with a subscription, while v6-mini is free for everyone. With v6, you can also edit only certain parts of finished songs, generate mashups, create samples, and turn images and videos into music.

➡ You can try it here.

🔴 GPT Image 2.5 Is Now Available for Free on @GPT4Telegrambot

The model generates even more realistic, detailed images; preserves details more carefully across multiple rounds of edits; and renders long text without typos.

How to Try:

1️⃣ Go to @GPT4Telegrambot
2️⃣ In the menu select Image Generation → GPT Image 2.5
3️⃣ Send your prompt.

✅ 25 images a week for free, 100 a day with Premium.