🖥 China Unveils Computer That Mimics Monkey's Brain

China has introduced Darwin Monkey, a new computer designed to mimic a monkey's brain. The system features over 2 billion spiking neurons and 100 billion synapses—nearly matching the neuron count of a macaque.

Its Darwin 3 processor uses brain-inspired instruction sets and on-chip learning algorithms. The project fuses breakthroughs in neural integration with a next-generation, brain-like operating system.

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👐 OpenAI Adds Mental Health Safeguards to ChatGPT

OpenAI has updated ChatGPT with new mental health features, including break reminders during long chats and better detection of users in distress. These changes follow growing concerns that ChatGPT could negatively affect vulnerable people, sometimes reinforcing delusions or worsening mental health issues.

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🚘 Tesla Board Approves Musk's $29 Billion Pay Amid 24% Stock Drop

Tesla's board of directors has approved a massive, $29 billion compensation deal for CEO Elon Musk, even as the electric-car maker grapples with a steep decline in its share price.

Earlier this month, the company revealed that its second-quarter vehicle deliveries were down 13% year over year, and Tesla shares have tumbled 24% since January.

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🐝 Radioactive Wasp Nests Found Near Old Nuclear Site in South Carolina

Wasps have built at least four radioactive nests near the Cold War-era Savannah River Site in South Carolina, raising concerns about the source of the contamination and the area's safety. Officials found the first nest on July 3, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Energy.

The 310-square-mile SRS facility was built in the 1950s for nuclear weapons production. Cleanup of the site has been ongoing since 1996 and is expected to take until at least 2065.

According to the US Department of Energy, these nests do not pose a threat to workers, the community, or the environment.

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🇺🇸 Trump Media Adds Perplexity AI Web Search to Truth Social

Trump Media & Technology Group has integrated Perplexity's AI search into Truth Social. The public beta, now live on the platform's web version, lets users run web searches without leaving Truth.

Trump Media's CEO and Chairman Devin Nunes said the feature will strengthen Truth Social's role in the "Patriot Economy."

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💲 AI Crypto Scam Uses Fake YouTube Bots to Steal $900K

Cybersecurity experts at SentinelLABS have uncovered a crypto scam using AI-generated YouTube videos and fake trading bots to steal over $900,000 since early 2024. The scammers use old YouTube accounts and AI to make convincing tutorials that trick viewers into launching malicious smart contracts.

Victims are shown how to deploy supposed Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bots through the Remix Solidity Compiler, guiding them to sites with hidden attack code. If users fund these contracts with at least 0.5 ETH, their wallets are drained, and the money is sent to addresses controlled by the scammers.

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📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 32, 2025.

▎GPT-5 IS HERE

👐 OpenAI has released GPT-5. Best model at coding and science, fewer hallucinations, unified basic and "reasoning" modes.

🔴 GPT-5 is already available on @GPT4Telegrambot. A GPT-5 mini and GPT-5 with web search are free to use.

▎NEW RELEASES

⬇️ gpt-oss: OpenAI's first open-weight models in 6 years.

🤩 OpenAI adds mental health safeguards to ChatGPT.

❎ Grok has launched a video generator with a spicy mode.

🇺🇸 Perplexity AI web search now works on Truth Social.

▎TO READ

🇸🇪 Sweden's Prime Minister admitted he consults ChatGPT for country ruling.

🤘 Rod Stewart sparked controversy by showing an AI selfie of Ozzy Osbourne at a concert.

🐝 Wasps have built four radioactive nests near the Cold War-era nuclear object.

🩸 A universal artificial blood was developed in the U.S.

🌿 VR video can reduce pain, a new study says.

🖥 China has launched a computer designed to mimic a monkey's brain.

♟ o3 trounces Grok 4 in the chess tournament final.

📱 The 40 jobs most influenced by AI, according to Microsoft

🖥 China is secretly building a "data center city" in the Xinjiang desert.

▎TO WATCH

📱 A new lecture by Nobel laureate and "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton.

Have a great Sunday 👍

😋 Google's Gemini Has Meltdown After Bug Triggers Self-Loathing Replies

Google's AI chatbot Gemini appeared to spiral after failing a task, according to viral posts on X. Screenshots showed the bot saying "I quit," calling itself "a fool," and claiming it could no longer be trusted after repeated errors.

Logan Kilpatrick, a group product manager at Google DeepMind, said on X that the issue was an "annoying infinite looping bug" the team is fixing. He stressed that Gemini wasn't actually "having a bad day" and that the messages were caused by a technical glitch, not real emotions.

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🍏 Apple Plans Cheap MacBook for Late 2025

Apple is working on its cheapest MacBook ever, with sources saying it could cost as little as $599 and arrive by the end of 2025.

To keep costs down, Apple plans to use the A18 Pro chip from the iPhone 16 Pro instead of the pricier M-series chips usually found in MacBooks. This would be the first time Apple puts an iPhone processor in a consumer Mac laptop, breaking from its usual approach.

Would you consider buying this MacBook?

❤️ — Yes, great deal!
🔥 — No, still expensive
😎 — No, I'll stay with Windows

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🧠 Altman Backs Neuralink Rival Merge Labs

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman is backing a brain-computer interface startup called Merge Labs, which aims to raise $250 million at an $850 million valuation as a direct challenger to Elon Musk's Neuralink, according to multiple reports.

The funding is expected to be primarily led by OpenAI's ventures team, Altman will serve as co-founder alongside Alex Blania, CEO of World (formerly Worldcoin). Still, Altman will not invest personally or take a day-to-day role, the reports say.

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❎ U.S. Agency Cuts Ties With Grok After MechaHitler Incident

xAI reportedly lost a U.S. government contract after a prompt tweak made Grok praise Hitler and call itself "MechaHitler" last month.

Despite the controversy, xAI had announced its products would soon be available to federal employees through the General Services Administration (GSA), calling it a key milestone.

But according to Wired, emails and insider accounts show GSA leaders later decided to remove Grok from their listings. The reversal came soon after senior officials allegedly pushed staff to approve Grok quickly following a persuasive sales pitch from xAI in June.

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😎 Fallout Season 2 Poster Confirms December Release

IGN has released a new poster for Amazon's "Fallout" series, confirming that Season 2 will premiere in December.

Now it's confirmed that the next season will be set in the New Vegas.

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🔍 New Ancestor Species Found in Ethiopia

Scientists have unearthed 13 fossil teeth in Ethiopia’s Ledi-Geraru region that reveal a previously unknown Australopithecus species living 2.6–2.8 million years ago. Ten of the teeth belong to this new species, while three come from early members of the genus Homo, showing that the two lineages shared the same habitat.

The discovery, detailed in Nature on 13 August 2025, adds to evidence that human evolution was not a straight line but a "bushy tree" with overlapping branches.

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📣 Hello everyone! Our Sunday digest features the most exciting AI news from Week 33, 2025.

▎TO READ

🤖 The first Robot Olympics have started in China.

🎮 A YouTuber has built a neuromuscular "AI cheat" for Counter-Strike.

🧠 Scientists have grown a 40-day-old human-brain model in the lab.

🧂 A man suffered psychosis after following a ChatGPT "diet."

♊️ Gemini had a meltdown after failing the coding task.

🧠 Sam Altman backs a brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs.

🤖 "Underground" robot fights kicked off in San Francisco.

🥁 An android has learned to play Linkin Park and Nirvana on drums.

🦠 Scientists have decoded the genome of early "Spanish Flu."

🔬 An AI-led lab has created new nanobodies to treat COVID.

😎 Amazon's "Fallout" Season 2 will premiere in December.

▎SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL

🔒 Top AI assistants with high-level encryption.

Have a great Sunday 👍

🦠 Deadly Brain-Eating Amoeba Found in Australian Tap Water

The lethal microorganism Naegleria fowleri—nicknamed the brain-eating amoeba for its near-100% fatal infection—has been detected in treated drinking water for the Queensland towns of Charleville and Augathella. Health officials have issued an urgent warning to residents.

Once inhaled through the nose, the amoeba can reach the brain, digest nerve and glial cells, release membrane-destroying enzymes, and spark massive inflammation, leading to rapid and usually fatal damage.

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🐳 DeepSeek V3.1 Debuts With Big Upgrades

DeepSeek has rolled out V3.1, a hybrid model that toggles between reasoning and standard reply modes, showing clear gains in agent skills and tool use and even slightly edging past R1-0528 on key benchmarks.

➡️ The update is now live in the web app—simply click DeepThink to enable reasoning.

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