📱 xAI gave a glimpse of its Colossus 2 data center in Tennessee

The facility will be powered by 550K NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs, using various energy sources

Musk said the goal is to bring AI compute equivalent of 50M units of Nvidia’s H100 online in 5 years

📰 Everything else in AI today

📱Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite as a stable model, positioning it as the company’s fastest and most cost-effective option at just $0.10/million input tokens.

📱Meta reportedly hired Cosmo Du, Tianhe Yu, and Weiyue Wang, three researchers from Google DeepMind behind its recent IMO gold-medal math model.

📱Anthropic is reversing its stance on Middle East investments, with its CEO saying, “No bad person should ever benefit from our success is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”

📱Elon Musk revealed that xAI is aiming to have the AI compute equivalent of 50M units of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs by 2025.

📱Microsoft reportedly poached over 20 AI engineers from Google DeepMind over the last few months, including former Gemini engineering head Amar Subramanya.

📱Apple rolled out a beta update for iOS 26 to developers, reintroducing ‘AI summaries’ that were previously removed over hallucinations and incorrect headlines.

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

⚡️Qwen3 - Alibaba’s newly updated SOTA open-source model

🎮 Hierarchical Reasoning Model - Brain-inspired open-source reasoner

🔍 Pika Social AI Video - AI-only social video app

👍 Act-Two - Runway’s motion capture AI model, now available via API

🇺🇸 U.S. Unveils Major AI Action Plan

Trump admin drops 28-page AI plan with 90+ actions to supercharge U.S. dominance — from building data centers to removing AI red tape.

😎Key Moves:

☺️ Boost open-source & infrastructure
☺️ Repeal legal blocks
☺️ Ensure “objective” AI (no bias)
☺️Use AI as economic, info & cultural weapon

Critics Say:
It favors Big Tech, cuts public safeguards.

Why It Matters:
It’s a full-throttle bid to outpace China — even if it means deregulating AI fast.

🆕Google Uses AI to Decode Ancient Rome

Google DeepMind launches Aeneas — an AI that restores, dates & deciphers broken Latin innoscriptions from the Roman Empire.

Key Feats:
🔴73% text restoration accuracy.
🟠Dates texts within 13 years
🟡Maps origins across Roman provinces
🟢Tested by 23 historians — 90% found it helpful

❓Why It Matters:
AI is now helping unlock ancient history. With tools like Aeneas, gaps in human knowledge could finally be filled — one fragment at a time.

📱 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned of an impending “AI fraud”, saying the tech has defeated authentication methods widely used by banks and major institutions.

📱 YouTube launched new AI tools for Shorts creators, introducing photo-to-video capabilities and Effects for quick transformations — both powered by Veo 2.

📱 Google also rolled out AI-powered features in Google Photos, including the ability to transform photos into short videos and a new Remix editing tool.

📱.Microsoft released GitHub Spark in public preview for Copilot Pro+ users, a coding tool that converts natural language into full-stack apps powered by Claude Sonnet 4.

📱 Amazon announced the closure of its AI lab in Shanghai, China, citing strategic adjustments and U.S.-China tensions alongside cloud computing layoffs.

🔎A new report from Pew Research found that Google users click on results/source links 50% less when browsing a page with an AI-generated summary

⚙️Trending AI Tools

👾 Qwen3-Coder - Alibaba’s new SOTA agentic coding model

🫣 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite - Google’s fastest, cost-efficient model

🎵 Higgs Audio V2 - Boson’s open-source audio model for voice generation

📹Google Photos - New AI features including photo-to-video & Remix

👀 YouTube’s ad revenue climbs to $10B

The Core: YouTube blew past expectations in Q2, raking in $9.8B in ad revenue — just $200M above Wall Street forecasts and inches from the $10B-per-quarter elite.

The details:
• 13% YoY ad revenue growth
• TV ad dollars shifting hard from broadcast to YouTube
• Living-room viewership surging via smart TVs
• Nielsen: YouTube is #1 in U.S. TV share (12.4%) for 3 months straight — beating Netflix & Disney

Why it matters: YouTube isn’t just Gen Z’s screen — it’s everyone’s default TV now. As cable fades and streamers stall, YouTube’s owning the couch.

🔭 AI Designs Cancer-Killing Proteins in Weeks

The Core: Danish researchers built an AI platform that creates custom cancer-targeting proteins in weeks — not years — giving T cells a “molecular GPS” to hunt tumors.

The details:
• Uses 3 AI models, incl. AlphaFold2
• Designs proteins for both common + patient-specific cancer markers
• Built-in virtual safety screening to avoid harming healthy cells

❓Why it matters: A major leap for personalized medicine — faster, safer, tailored cancer treatments may soon be routine.

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📱 Elon Musk posted that X is planning to revive Vine, “but in AI form” — with the beloved video app’s IP currently owned by Twitter (now X).

🌐 Similarweb published an update to its AI platform data, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT still accounting for 78% of total traffic share and Google in second at 8.7%.

📱 HiDream released HiDream-E1.1, a new updated image editing model that climbs to the top spot in Artificial Analysis’ Image Editing Arena amongst open-weight models.

💻 Alibaba released Qwen3-MT, an AI translation model with support for 92+ languages and strong performance across benchmarks.

💻 Figma announced the general availability of Figma Make, a prompt-to-code tool that allows users to transform designs into interactive prototypes.

📱 Google introduced Opal, a new Labs experiment that converts natural language prompts into editable, shareable AI mini apps with customizable workflows.

⚡️ Trending AI Tools

🤖 Moby Agents - Triple Whale’s AI agent suite for e-commerce

4️⃣ GitHub Spark - Create full-stack apps with natural language prompts

🥶 Ash - AI mental health app for anxiety, stress, and growth

💎 Opal - Build and share AI mini-apps with natural language