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Send us a textAI News Summarieshttps://pub-36bb25f94ff54a95ab17262f114a5985.r2.dev/fg-51621.htmlAI Tweet Summarieshttps://pub-36bb25f94ff54a95ab17262f114a5985.r2.dev/fg-51629.htmlGoogle Milestones & Partnerships: Flow surpassed 100M videos, launched a new hub, doubled Ultra user AI credits, and partnered with Kairos Power on nuclear energy for AI infrastructure in Tennessee. Research & Funding: Simons Foundation backed "physics of AI" research led by Surya Ganguli, promising interdisciplinary breakthroughs. Later committed $2M annually to uncover neural network learning principles. Industry & Events: Two-thirds of Forbes' AI 50 use link-based, no-typing checkout. GPU_MODE/ScaleML hosting weeklong researcher series; LlamaIndex/AWS "Agentic AI" event on August 26 in San Francisco. New Tools: Chroma Cloud (serverless search database), DatologyAI's BeyondWeb (synthetic data), Tensorlake (document processing), Alibaba's WAN 2.2 (dance videos), Qwen-Image-Edit (bilingual editing), Deep Agents (JavaScript), Meta's DINOv3 (vision model), Berkeley's DocETL (data pipelines), Paradigm's spreadsheet, Hugging Face's AI Sheets. LLM Developments: OLMo 2 excels in efficiency and utility. NVIDIA released Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 with reasoning mode. IBM launched embedding models. New benchmarks: MoNaCo, synth-bench. Claude 4.1 Opus tops coding leaderboards. Platform Features: Gemini API's URL Context (GA), Anthropic's Usage/Cost API, Chrome-Ollama integration, Meta's SAM 2 in Transformers, AI Toolkit's WAN 2.2 fine-tuning. Tutorials: JAX TPU book expansion, DINOv3 fine-tuning notebook, OpenAI's developer hub. Demos: GPT-1 to GPT-5 comparison, self-learning Flappy Bird agent. Industry Discourse: Claude's trolley-problem experiments, Andrew Wilson on deep learning, Dylan Patel on GPT-5/NVIDIA, synthetic data debates, reinforcement learning practices, AI agent teams, NVIDIA's ecosystem advantages. Legal & Security: Otter.ai faces class-action for alleged secret recordings. Texas investigating Meta AI/Character.AI over children's mental health claims. Research revealed image-based prompt exploits and AI bias toward AI-generated content. OpenAI & Partnerships: Altman warned of AI investment bubble, considering ChatGPT encryption and GPT-5 refinements. Oracle-Google partnership bringing Gemini to OCI. Google-Anthropic safety collaboration. Google Initiatives: URL context tool, "Select and Ask" feature, incognito chats, AI video generator. NASA collaboration on space medical assistant. AI center in Ghana. Product Launches: Grammarly's AI productivity suite, AMD/Stability's Stable Diffusion 3.0, Samsung's Gemini-powered Galaxy Buds3 FE ($149, September 2025), NHS AI discharge tool, AWS/Code for Schools' AI curriculum, Hugging Face's assistant tools. Grok overtook Gemini in app rankings. Support the show
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