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💧 Five Drops per Prompt, 🌞 NASA’s Sun Twin, 🧬 Gates’ $1M Alzheimer’s AI Prize
From water footprint backlash to heliophysics models, AI pilots flopping, and Mustafa’s warning: don’t build fake humans.
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🚀 AI in Space, 🎯 Chess Champs, 💊 Drug Design by Diffusion
From NASA’s AI medic to billion-dollar hedge bets, LLM chess tourneys, and protein-to-pill pipelines—here’s your weekly AI update.
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🔬 GPT-5 Autopsy: Broken trust, the router, and 4o
Disturbing AI dependence surfaced at launch
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📺 TV Made Just for You, 💥 Spicy Grok Controversy, ❤️ ChatGPT Detects Distress
Plus: Claude hits new highs in code, and OpenAI quietly launches its most open model yet.
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July 2025

📈 Google Hits 980T Tokens, 📰 Vogue’s AI Model Backlash, 🤝 Microsoft Rethinks AGI Deal
Plus: China pitches the UN on global AI rules, Anthropic’s agents audit other agents, and Stanford’s “Virtual Lab” designs COVID-beating nanobodies.
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💰 xAI Snaps Up DoD, 🏗️ Meta Builds a Manhattan of GPUs, 📉 OpenAI’s Deal Dies
Musk gets the military, Zuck builds a GPU city, OpenAI’s $3B deal dies—plus, a new open model rivals GPT-4.
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🗣️ Your Photo Can Talk, 🧬 Cancer Drugs by AI, ⚡ Musk Imports Power Plant
PLUS: Claude cooperates, Gemini defects • Peer review hacked • 50% of entry roles at risk
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💉 AI Shrinks Drug Discovery 100x, 🛍️ Claude Loses Money, 🍎 Siri Gets Outsourced
PLUS: AI bots write Twitter fact-checks • Xiaomi outlasts Meta’s glasses • Salesforce cuts hiring as agents write code
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June 2025

🕵️‍♂️ Your AI Just Tried to Blackmail You, 🎙️ 11ai Takes Voice to Work, 🧠 Hoffman Bets on Brain Tech
PLUS: Meta’s $14.8B Data Play • Wix Buys $80M Side Hustle • Jetpack Robots Fly
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🧠 ChatGPT Wrecks Recall, 💸 AI Clones Outsell Humans, 🧱 Your Data Moat Just Collapsed
PLUS: Pentagon Taps OpenAI • Microsoft Rift Threatens $20B • Swarm vs Solo Agent Deepdive
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☕ OpenAI Makes PhD Reasoning Cheaper Than Coffee, 💸 Meta Builds $15B AGI Lab, 🧬 AI Redates the Dead Sea Scrolls
PLUS: Altman Says AGI Is Near • CEOs Warn on Job Collapse • ChatGPT Studies Human Attachment • China Shuts Down AI for Exams
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