This Week’s News

  1. OpenAI is building its own social network to compete with Twitter/X. [Link]

  2. Newly developed AI cameras may save snow leopards from extinction. [Link]

  3. Google’s Deepmind demonstrates its new AI model Genie. [Link]

  4. Researchers at Princeton University use AI to create wireless chips that no humans understand. [Link]

  5. Robots compete for the first time ever in the Beijing half marathon. [Link]

  6. AI Researcher Tamay Besiroglu launches Mechanize, a startup that is aiming to automate all work. [Link]

  7. Shopping giant Sam’s Club is replacing all human checkout workers with AI. [Link]

  8. Anysphere, the company behind AI software coding assistant Cursor, is suffering from reputational damage after its customer support AI agent goes rogue. [Link]

  9. Pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson pivots its AI strategy to focus on fewer projects with more ROI. [Link]

  10. OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini reasoning models hallucinate at higher rates than other LLMs. [Link]

  11. Wikipedia partners with AI knowledge hub Kaggle to release a beta dataset in both English and French. [Link]

  12. OpenAI says its newest reasoning models can ‘think with images’ to produce results. [Link]

  13. Texas state republican legislatures put obstacles in the way of President Trump’s AI plans. [Link]

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