AI News - July 15, 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
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Microsoft uses AI to save 500 million USD while slashing jobs.
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Meta has acquired voice startup Play AI.
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The Trump administration proposed a two billion USD plan to transform Pittsburgh steel mills into AI hubs.
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Academic researchers are hiding prompts in text to avoid negative reviews from AI tools.
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Google Deepmind announces a new software library called GenAI Processors to help build AI applications.
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Study shows that AI coding tools decrease software engineer productivity by approximately 20 percent.
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Goldman Sachs will start augmenting its developers with Cognition Labs AI software Devin.
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AI generated child abuse images surge by over 400 percent online.
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OpenAI is testing a new feature called ‘study together’ that helps AI teach humans.
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Chinese researchers have developed a groundbreaking method using AI to accelerate Protein Engineering.
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Japan is using AI storytellers to assist survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bomb to tell their stories.
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Kimi.ai releases K2, an open weights model on par with GPT-4.1 and Claude 4 Sonnet.
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xAI releases Grok 4, potentially a new benchmark in reasoning and live data but with serious caveats around safety risks, transparency, brand influence, and overall UX.
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Context releases an agentic all-in-one “AI Office Suite” with integrations to over 300 enterprise applications.
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