AI News - April 21, 2025

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We're excited to bring you this week's roundup of the most fascinating AI news, updates, and breakthroughs! Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, and explore the incredible world of AI with us.

🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

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]