This Week’s News

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