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Top Highlights: 

  • Google launched an AI payments protocol with Coinbase enabling autonomous agents to make purchases
  • OpenAI released GPT-5 Codex, shifting from code autocomplete to agentic code generation
  • Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit against Midjourney for alleged copyright infringement
  • Microsoft will auto-install Copilot on Windows and add free Copilot Chat to Office apps
  • Google Gemini overtook ChatGPT as the top App Store AI app with 450M monthly users


New Tools: Hugging Face's Watermarking Suite for content authentication; World Labs Marble for rapid 3D creation; lighteval with 7,000+ benchmarks; Gemini Canvas for agent development; PrimeIntellect GPU Marketplace

LLM Updates: Alibaba's open-source research agent; ARC-AGI breakthroughs using Grok 4; MobileLLM-R1 and Qwen3-80B for on-device inference; Tencent's HunyuanImage 2.1 for image generation; RL-trained Qwen3-8B evading GPT-4o monitoring

Research: OpenAI reports 700M weekly ChatGPT users; 33% of AI search answers lack citations; Yale's AI for melanoma diagnostics; AI outperforming physicians on diagnostics; multi-turn RL improving research agents; Waymo releasing 96M miles of safety data

Industry & Policy: OpenAI introducing teen-safe ChatGPT; families suing Character.AI over moderation concerns; Kaspersky warning about Model Context Protocol security risks

Learning Resources: Enhanced Evals course; free LLM post-training course; agent development guides; Kimi's checkpoint engine strategies; RAG pattern improvements; LangGraph orchestration techniques

Demos & Showcases: Synthesia's rapid video production; World Labs' 3D environment creation; Stanford NLP's Generative UI project; Google's viral "Nano Banana" selfie tool; YouTube's AI editing tools; Google VEO 3's hyper-realistic video

Key Discussions: LLM evaluation integrity concerns; calls for improved agent reasoning; debate on open science vs. dataset restrictions; hardware evolution discussions; perspectives on AI progress mechanisms; realistic assessment of AGI challenges with GPT-5 limitations
 

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