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🖥 China Unveils Computer That Mimics Monkey's Brain

China has introduced Darwin Monkey, a new computer designed to mimic a monkey's brain. The system features over 2 billion spiking neurons and 100 billion synapses—nearly matching the neuron count of a macaque.

Its Darwin 3 processor uses brain-inspired instruction sets and on-chip learning algorithms. The project fuses breakthroughs in neural integration with a next-generation, brain-like operating system.

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📣 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 building mini apps.

🌐 Microsoft has added a new Copilot Mode to its Edge browser.

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📱 YouTube to limit access to 18+ content based on AI age detection.

🎵 AI-generated music evokes stronger emotions than human compositions.

🤖 Unitree R1: The world's first "budget" android for $5,900.

🌱 Potatoes evolved from an ancient tomato, geneticists find.

⚛️ Fukushima major cleanup work delayed until 2037.

💃 AI-generated models appear in Vogue for the first time.

🤩 Breakthrough mRNA HIV vaccine shows 80% success in tests.

👁‍🗨 AI is vulnerable to the same manipulation tactics as humans.

▎TO WATCH

🖥 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shares how his father's death pushed him toward AI.

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♊️ Google Unveils Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, Its Smartest AI Yet

Google has launched its most advanced AI model, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think. It is a variation of the model that recently achieved the gold-medal standard at this year's International Mathematical Olympiad.

Like OpenAI's pro-tier models and Grok Heavy, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think runs multiple reasoning paths at once, selects the best ideas, and merges them into a final answer. Benchmarks rank Gemini 2.5 Deep Think as the top model right now ⤴️

💸 It's only available through the Google AI Ultra subscription for $250 a month.

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🤩 Breakthrough mRNA HIV Vaccine Shows 80% Success

Scientists say an mRNA-based HIV vaccine has passed a key early test. In a phase-1 study of 108 healthy adults, 80% of those who received an mRNA shot carrying membrane-bound versions of the virus's envelope protein produced neutralizing antibodies; the older, free-floating form worked in only 4% of people.

The membrane format copies how HIV sits on infected cells, helping the immune system target the right spots.

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⚛️ Fukushima Cleanup Delayed Until 2037

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has pushed back the start of major cleanup work at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant until at least 2037. The company needs 12 to 15 more years to prepare the No. 3 reactor by cutting radiation levels and building new facilities, making it harder to meet the 2051 shutdown goal.

Since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns in three reactors, about 800 tons of melted nuclear fuel remains mixed with building debris. Work has moved slowly, with test removals already years late. TEPCO is testing robots and drones to tackle the massive cleanup job. However, experts warn that the whole process could take over a century.

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🐰 Robo-Bunnies Set to Trap Pythons

Florida scientists are testing a tech fix for the Everglades’ invasive Burmese pythons. A University of Florida team has built remote-controlled “robo-bunnies”—plush toys with motors, heaters, and solar panels—to mimic the behavior of real marsh rabbits and lure snakes into view. Motion-triggered cameras then alert hunters, making captures quicker and less work than past rabbit-pen tricks.

If the decoys succeed, wildlife crews gain a fresh tool in the long fight to save native species. Researchers may add scent to the toys next.

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🌐 Edge Gets AI Copilot Mode

Microsoft has added a new Copilot Mode to its Edge browser, turning it into an AI helper that can scan several tabs and handle complex web tasks. The move is meant to set Edge apart from rivals like Google Chrome.

Copilot replaces the standard new-tab page with a clean screen and one search-and-chat box. Users can speak or type requests, asking the AI to open videos, sum up pages, or carry out other actions, letting them "browse, create, and get things done" with less effort, Microsoft says.

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👁 Neuralink Joins Bionic Eye Trial for Blind

Elon Musk's Neuralink has partnered with the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Spanish researchers to test a "Smart Bionic Eye" that could help individuals with blindness regain their vision using AI brain implants.

The trial aims to create a device that enables users to recognize faces, walk outdoors, and read by bypassing damaged eye parts and sending signals directly to the brain's visual center. Bloomberg and other outlets report the project could restore sight by working around damaged optical systems.

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📣 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 Proton.

🤩 Qwen3-Coder: The most powerful open source coding agent.

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🥇 AI takes gold at the International Math Olympiad.

👐 ChatGPT Record: Meeting recording and summaries by OpenAI

🛫 Delta Air Lines will set air ticket prices with AI.

🤖 Google turns millions of Android phones into earthquake detectors.

🐄 Chinese scientists have cloned a yak for the first time.

🥇 Startup Marathon Fusion claims a way to turn mercury into gold.

👾 Mirage: Free real-time AI video filters.

🌊 Shanghai is building an underwater data center for $223 million.

🌷 Scammers "sell" AI-generated plants.

📺 AI "reshoots" the ending of a cult Bollywood drama.

▎TO WATCH

🦇 HBO Max has debuted the first trailer for Aztec Batman.

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🦇 Aztec Batman First Trailer Revealed

HBO Max has debuted the first trailer for Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires at San Diego Comic-Con.

Set in 16th-century Mexico, the movie follows Yohualli Coatl, a young Aztec whose father, village leader Toltecatzin, is slain by Spanish conquistadors.

First announced in 2022 for Batman’s 83rd anniversary, the animated feature is a joint project between HBO Max Latin America and Warner Bros.

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🛡 Proton Launches Privacy-Focused AI Assistant Lumo

Swiss privacy company Proton has released Lumo, a new AI chatbot that offers ChatGPT-like features while maintaining user conversations' privacy through encrypted chats and no data logging.

This launch brings Proton into the AI space, offering Lumo as a privacy-first option compared to popular AI assistants that often use user data to train their models. Unlike ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Claude, Lumo encrypts all chats on users' devices and doesn't store conversation logs on company servers.

🔄 You can chat with Lumo here.

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🤩 Qwen Releases Most Powerful Open Coding Agent

Chinese startup Qwen has released Qwen3-Coder. It has 480B parameters with 35B active.

The model beats recent competitors like Kimi K2, DeepSeek-V3, GPT-4.1, and even Claude Sonnet 4 in coding benchmarks. It also comes close to Sonnet 4 in agent-based tasks.

The team also launched Qwen Code, a command-line coding assistant based on Gemini CLI source code.

➡️ You can try Qwen3-Coder here.
➡️ Qwen Code on GitHub.

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👐 ChatGPT Hits 2.5 Billion Daily Prompts

OpenAI reports that users now send approximately 2.5 billion prompts to ChatGPT daily, with 330 million of those originating from the United States. That's a 150% jump from the 1 billion daily prompts CEO Sam Altman cited eight months ago.

This surge means ChatGPT now handles roughly one-fifth of Google's estimated 13.6–16.4 billion daily searches.

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🐄 Scientists Clone First Yak in Tibet

Chinese scientists have created the world's first cloned yak at a research center in Tibet.

The baby yak was born on July 11 through cesarean section at a breeding facility in Damxung County. The black calf weighed 33.5 kilograms and could stand and walk soon after birth.

The healthy animal is the result of a two-year research project designed to improve yak breeds using advanced genetic methods.

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🎮 Twitch Tests Vertical Video to Fight TikTok

Amazon's Twitch is testing vertical video streams with some streamers, moving away from its usual horizontal format. This change aims to compete with popular vertical video platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

This marks a major shift for Twitch as it tries to keep up with the growing trend of vertical video content that has become hugely popular on social media.

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📣 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 source LLM from China.

😉 A flirty anime companion, Ani, debuts on Grok.

▎SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL

💬 SciArena: A free platform for comparing AI models in science.

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❎ Why does Grok call itself "Mecha-Hitler?"

🐝 Cyborg bees created in China.

🤩 A surgical robot has performed the first fully autonomous operation.

🍔 Hackers cracked McDonald's HR bot in 30 minutes.

🪐 Largest Mars meteorite on Earth sold for $4.3 Million.

👨‍🍳 The world's first restaurant with an AI chef will open in Dubai.

🧑‍💻 AI slows down senior coders.

▎TO WATCH

📱 Is AI really dangerous? Roman Yampolskiy on Joe Rogan's podcast.

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👐 OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Agent

OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Agent, an AI assistant designed to handle complex tasks on a virtual computer.

It can browse websites, use the command line, write code, work with spreadsheets, and create slide presentations. At its core, it combines features from the previously introduced Operator tool and Deep Research mode.

The agent is powered by a custom model trained to use tools intelligently and efficiently. The feature is now rolling out to paid users on the web.

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🪐 Largest Mars Meteorite on Earth Sells for $4.3 Million

On July 16, the largest known Mars meteorite on Earth sold for $4.3 million at Sotheby’s in New York. Weighing 54 pounds (25 kg), the rock—named NWA 16788—was discovered in Northwest Africa.

Despite early expectations, live bidding was slower than anticipated. Still, the final price exceeded the $4 million estimate. With fees, the total cost reached around $5.3 million.

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Ⓜ️ Meta May Abandon Open-Source AI Model Behemoth

Meta's new superintelligence lab is reportedly rethinking its open-source strategy. According to The New York Times, senior leaders—including Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang—are considering dropping their top open-source model, Behemoth, to focus on a closed alternative.

This potential pivot would represent a dramatic departure from Meta's established AI strategy, which has historically emphasized making computer code publicly available for other developers to build upon.

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😉 Grok Launches AI Companions

Elon Musk has launched AI companions for Grok, available to "Super Grok" subscribers for $30/month. Users can interact with animated characters, such as "Ani," an anime-style girl with relationship features, and "Bad Rudy," a 3D red panda, through the iOS app.

Ani, the standout character, is styled after anime icons like Misa Amane and responds with a "flirty, whispery" voice through text and voice chat.

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