📰 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.

👍 Everything else in AI today

📱 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