🇺🇸 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

📰 Everything else in AI today

📱 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that despite users sharing personal info with ChatGPT, there is no legal confidentiality, and chats can theoretically be called on in legal cases.

📱 Alibaba launched an update to Qwen3-Thinking, now competitive with Gemini 2.5 Pro, o4-mini, and DeepSeek R1 across knowledge, reasoning, and coding benchmarks.

📱 Tencent released Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0, a new open-source world generation model for creating interactive, editable 3D worlds from image or text prompts.

💻 Music company Hallwood Media signed top Suno “music designer” Imoliver in a record deal, becoming the first creator from the platform to join a label.

📱 Vogue is facing backlash after lifestyle brand Guess used an AI-generated model in a full-page advertisement in the magazine’s August issue.

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

👀 Memories AI - ChatGPT for your video library, with unlimited video context

🀄️ Qwen3-MT - AI translation model with support for 92+ languages

💬 Seed LiveInterpret 2.0 - ByteDance’s AI translation speech system

📹 Higgsfield Steal - Recreate any picture from anywhere on the web

👍 Meta targets Mira Murati's startup with massive offers

The Core: Meta tried poaching over a dozen staff from ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab — offering insane comp (one >\$1B), per WIRED.

The details:
- Offers: $200–500M over 4 yrs, some with $50–100M guaranteed Yr 1.
- One offer reportedly topped $1B
- None joined — skepticism around Meta's AI vision remains

😆 Everything else in AI today

📱 Meta’s superintelligence team poached AI researcher Bowen Zhang from Apple’s foundation models group, marking the fourth departure in the last month.

🔰oogle’s NotebookLM is rolling out Video Overviews, giving users the ability to generate narrated slides on any topic or document.

💻Microsoft is reportedly nearing a deal to retain access to OpenAI’s tech even after the company’s AGI milestone, a current point of contention in terms of the partnership.

📱 xAI opened the waitlist for its upcoming “Imagine” image and video generation feature, which will reportedly include audio capabilities similar to Google’s Veo 3.

💻 Adobe unveiled new AI features for editing in Photoshop, including Harmonize for realistic blending, Generative Upscale, and more.

💡Ideogram released Character, a character consistency model allowing users to place a specific person into existing scenes and new outputs from a single reference photo.

✍️Writer launched Action Agent, an enterprise AI agent that executes tasks and uses tools in its own environment, beating Manus and OAI Deep Research on benchmarks.