AI News - June 30, 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. China’s Baidu is about to release its latest open source LLM, Ernie today. [Link]

  2. China displays first of its kind robot soccer game in Beijing. [Link]

  3. MIT’s CSAI Laboratory develops a new physics engine to help AI design better robots. [Link]

  4. OpenAI turning to Google Cloud services and Google AI chipsets to power its products. [Link]

  5. Constellation Energy, the owner of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, has fast tracked development and refurbishment of the facility in order to power AI data centers. [Link]

  6. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says that AI is doing up to 50 percent of the work at 93 percent effectiveness at his company. [Link]

  7. Typos and slang in medical records can stymie AI medical assessments. [Link]

  8. In a landmark copyright case, a federal judge rules in Anthropic’s favor ruling that training models on copyrighted works is fair use. [Link]

  9. Meta announces its new Oakley smart glasses, available for preorder starting July 11th. [Link]

  10. MIT Graduate student develops AI polymer masks to quickly restore damaged paintings. [Link]

  11. In an experiment where Claude AI is tasked with running a store, the results were definitely underwhelming. [Link]

  12. The country of Denmark is attempting to stop deepfakes by giving its citizens rights over their own facial features. [Link]

  13. Studies suggest that AI tools risk making our brains less active and our writing less original. [Link]