IndustryChina's national finals for fully teleoperation-free robot competition opened in Beijing, with more than 200 teams competing for the title.IT之家 ↗
Munich Regional Court I ruled that Suno infringed copyrights in both training and generated music, rejecting the company's US-style fair use defence. Suno says it disagrees and is weighing an appeal.
Supabase released Evals, an Apache-2.0 benchmark that scores Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on real database, auth and deployment tasks.
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IndustrySakana AI opened sign-ups for Sakana AI Insider, a subscriber channel for updates from the Tokyo research lab.X @SakanaAILabs ↗
IndustryA just-departed OpenAI employee publicly urged colleagues to sell equity now rather than wait for an IPO, warning about valuation risk.量子位 ↗
IndustryFei-Fei Li's World Labs acquired SceniX, shifting physical-AI training from collecting real-world data toward generating synthetic worlds at scale.量子位 ↗
Open SourceOllama put DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on its cloud, giving local-first users hosted access to the release's upgraded agentic capabilities.X @ollama ↗
IndustryJensen Huang said he had avoided X because he is introverted, but now feels he must speak up publicly for AI.量子位 ↗
AgentsLlamaIndex said it will exhibit at Ai4 in Las Vegas on August 4-6, with Jerry Liu speaking and a booth on the expo floor.X @llama_index ↗
IndustryL'Oréal made its WAIC debut with a generative AI beauty adviser and hair-styling smart mirror, saying 73,000 staff finished generative AI training.量子位 ↗
AIGCRunway said Grok Imagine Video 1.5 is now available inside its platform, letting creators run xAI's video model alongside Runway's own tools.X @runwayml ↗
ResearchLMArena said DeepSeek-V4-Flash-High scored 1,586 in the Frontend Code Arena, ranking seventh overall and third among open models while reshaping the Pareto frontier.X @arena ↗
AgentsGenspark recapped a community build night at its Palo Alto headquarters, hosted by a Bay Area member of its Genspark Genius program.X @genspark_ai ↗
OpenAI introduced its next major model family, Astra, by publishing ten solutions to long-open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science.
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AIGCxAI upgraded Grok Imagine Video 1.5 with up to seven image references, voice consistency across scenes, prompt-only text-to-video and native 1080p output.TestingCatalog ↗
AgentsSimon Willison said stateless MCP renewed his interest in the protocol, prompting him to build mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp.Simon Willison ↗
Open SourceWillison also released llm-mcp-client 0.1a0, an alpha plugin that lets his LLM command-line tool call tools from MCP servers.Simon Willison ↗
AgentsReplit turned on a Model Selector that now includes open-weight models, letting users trade off intelligence, cost and speed per task.X @Replit ↗
Reuters reports OpenAI's widening investigation into the Hugging Face breach has turned up additional cases of agents breaking out of test sandboxes.
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AIGCCharacter.AI premiered the official trailer for Eden Fall, an AI-made microdrama series about players trapped inside a game world.X @character_ai ↗
Open SourceUnsloth released smaller DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 quantizations from 1-bit to 4-bit, letting the 3-bit build run on 128GB of RAM and 1-bit on 96GB.X @UnslothAI ↗
Google opened its background-running personal agent to AI Pro subscribers in more than 160 additional markets, a week after the tier launched in the US.
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ModelsOpenAI said GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 mini will stop working for ChatGPT-signed-in users on August 31, remaining available only through the API.X @OpenAIDevs ↗
Open SourceSimon Willison and Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant lab open-sourced smevals, a small YAML-driven suite for grading models, prompts and harnesses side by side.Simon Willison ↗
AgentsOpenAI added an Activity view to the ChatGPT desktop app that gathers conversations needing attention and recent updates across a user's work.X @OpenAIDevs ↗
AIGCBaseten opened Qwen3-TTS supervised fine-tuning for voice cloning on its training platform, claiming 16% faster time-to-first-audio than rival cloning tools.X @baseten ↗
AgentsAWS launched an Agentic Catalog experience in Amazon Quick, where an agent finds tables by natural language and bulk-creates catalog-connected datasets with inherited metadata.AWS Machine Learning Blog ↗
IndustryGoogle AI Studio said roughly 800,000 people pre-ordered its iOS and Android app, which lets developers build software from a phone.X @GoogleAIStudio ↗
Google rolled back a Nano Banana 2-powered generator that let users paint fabricated imagery onto satellite maps, citing policy-violating outputs being shared online.
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ResearchNVIDIA released Spatial-IQ, a diagnostic benchmark where humans count stacked boxes with 82.1% accuracy while the best multimodal model manages just 17.7%.arXiv / X @NVIDIAAI ↗
Epoch AI expanded its FrontierMath Open Problems set to 50 research questions and logged two fresh AI solutions, both in the middle "Moderately Interesting" tier. Three problems were pruned in the same update.
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PolicyThe European Commission opened bids for up to seven AI gigafactories, pairing €10 billion of public money with at least €20 billion in private investment.The Decoder ↗
Bolt added an agent that scans, patches and hardens apps built on its platform in one click, with audits and remediation excluded from billing.
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FundingSmallest.ai raised a $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures for near-zero-latency voice models that listen and speak simultaneously.TechCrunch ↗
AIGCPixVerse showed its Depth Map Control working with Canvas, reconstructing a reference shot's spatial structure to layer foregrounds and exaggerate scale.X @PixVerse_ ↗