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📱 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.

💀 Wan2.2 - Alibaba’s new open MoE model for AI video generation

💩 GLM-4.5 - Z.ai’s new SOTA open-source agentic AI family

🤑 Shortcut AI - AI agent for Excel spreadsheets

😈 Copilot Mode - New agentic capabilities for Microsoft Edge

🖼Killing the AI Look with Open-Source Photorealism

💀The Core: Black Forest Labs and Krea just dropped FLUX.1 Krea — an open-weight AI image model built to kill the “AI look” with sharper realism.

The details:👍

- Trained to avoid waxy skin, blur, and oversaturation
- Claims SOTA status vs. both open and closed models
- Fully compatible with the FLUX.1 dev ecosystem

❓Why it matters: It’s a leap in photorealism — blurring the line between real and AI-made like never before.

☺️OpenAI announces Stargate Norway, its first European AI data center
☺️Will house 100,000 Nvidia GPUs
☺️Set to run entirely on renewable energy
☺️Launch planned for late 2026

🥸 Everything else in AI today

📱 YouTube is rolling out new AI content moderation tools that will estimate a user’s age based on their viewing history and other factors, aiming to help ID and protect minors.

📱 Cohere introduced Command A Vision, a new model that achieves SOTA performance in multimodal vision tasks for enterprises

📱 OpenAI has reportedly reached $12B in annualized revenue for 2025, with around 700M weekly active users for its ChatGPT platform.

⚙️ StepFun released Step3, an open-source multimodal reasoning model that achieves high performance at low cost, outperforming Kimi K2, Qwen3, and Llama 4 Maverick.

😭 Both Runway and Luma AI are exploring robotics training and simulations with their video models as a source of revenue, according to a new report from The Information.

💵AI infrastructure platform Fal raised a new $125M funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.5B.

😉 Agentic AI startup Manus launched Wide Research, a feature that leverages agent-to-agent collaboration to deploy hundreds of subagents to handle a single task.

🎥 Showrunner - Platform for creating personalized, playable TV episodes

😀 NEO - Neo AI’s new SOTA autonomous ML engineer

📸FLUX.1 Krea [dev] - BFL and Krea’s open advanced image model

🗺AlphaEarth Foundations - Google’s AI model for on-demand maps