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On today in tech history: In 2015DeepMind’s AI crushed Atari 2600 games using deep reinforcement learning, nailing superhuman skills from raw pixels. This mid-July breakthrough showed machines could master complex tasks, pushing AI toward general intelligence and cementing deep learning’s game-changing potential.
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Meta scraps Llama 4 Behemoth because it pivots to prefab superclusters and closed AI
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TikTok owner, Bytedance, reportedly constructing its own XR glasses — rivaling Meta
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Amazon targets vibe-coding chaos with recent ‘Kiro’ AI software development tool
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xAI updates Grok 4 alignment, launches gamified AI companions with NSFW unlocks
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NotebookLM becomes research engine as Google drops MRL‑powered embeddings and Big Sleep bug sniffer
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Runway’s Act‑Two Brings Full‑Body AI Mocap to Any Style, No Rigs Needed
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State of AI Trend Report for July 2025
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Pentagon Awards AI Giants $200M Contracts to Develop National Security Prototypes
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Anthropic drops Claude for Finance with data connectors and prompt kits
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Apple Might Know You are Pregnant Before You Do
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Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’
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Watch: Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman says AIs at the moment are starting to have subjective experiences
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Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID
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Saudi Arabia plans to coach 1 million residents in AI
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AI agents’ capability horizons double every 7 months — recent METR evaluation finds similar rapid gains across science, math, robotics, and more
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Nvidia is ready to resume China chip sales after months of regulatory whiplash
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Mira Murati’s Pondering Machines Lab is price $12B in seed round
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Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model
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OpenAI readies ChatGPT agents to tackle Excel and PowerPoint
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Cornell–IBM collaboration advances quantum computing
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Meta fixes bug that might leak users’ AI prompts and generated content
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Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan every part in your screen
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Research leaders urge tech industry to observe AI’s ‘thoughts’
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Trump pronounces billions in investments to make Pennsylvania an AI hub
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Developers eye CUDA compatibility for Apple’s MLX machine learning framework
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US AI supercomputer Nexus will compute faster than 8 billion humans combined
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Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
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