🕹 Google launches free AI quest game

Google has rolled out a full-fledged interactive game designed to teach the basics of AI. The project comes with cutscenes, tasks, and real-world case studies straight from the tech giant.

A clever move: learning neural networks feels less like study and more like an adventure.

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📼 China unveils DNA cassette tape with 36PB storage

Researchers in China have created a “DNA cassette tape” that can store 36 petabytes of data - enough to hold every song ever recorded. The innovation embeds synthetic DNA into plastic and protects it with a crystal-like armor for durability.

🔸 Developed by Xingyu Jiang’s team at Southern University of Science and Technology
🔸 Uses DNA bases (A, T, C, G) to encode data, similar to binary code
🔸 Crystal armor coating prevents degradation, enabling storage for thousands of years
🔸 Cassette design allows fast data access, mimicking rewind/fast-forward mechanics
🔸 Potential use cases: music archiving, video preservation, cultural heritage, genomic data

Though costs and read speeds remain challenges, the DNA cassette blends retro aesthetics with cutting-edge biotech, hinting at a future of ultra-dense, sustainable data storage.

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📚 Ex-Spotify exec launches Oboe - an AI that can teach you anything

Former Spotify VP has released Oboe, a free AI platform that builds fully personalized study programs — positioned as a serious alternative to online courses.

🔸 One prompt gives you an hour of structured learning on any topic, from physics to nutrition
🔸 Generates summaries, podcasts, illustrated articles, flashcards, and quizzes
🔸 Designed to adapt content to your learning style, not just dump information
🔸 Already drawing comparisons as a stronger rival to Google’s NotebookLM

Oboe turns self-education into a tailored experience, hinting at a future where AI tutors could replace traditional e-learning.

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🧠 Thinking Machines Lab takes aim at randomness in AI answers

Mira Murati’s new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has raised $2B and built a team of ex-OpenAI researchers. For the first time, it revealed its mission: making large language model outputs stable and predictable, not random.

🔸 Problem: today’s LLMs often give different answers to the same question
🔸 Hypothesis: unpredictability stems from how Nvidia GPU cores interact during inference
🔸 Approach: controlling that GPU-level process to reduce variability in outputs
🔸 First product: expected in the coming months, aimed at researchers and startups
🔸 Strategic goal: establish reliability as a core differentiator in model development

If successful, Thinking Machines could shift the baseline for AI — from “creative randomness” to trustworthy consistency.

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💻 Claude quietly gains a full code interpreter

Anthropic has rolled out a sandboxed code execution environment for Claude, framed as a tool for presentations, spreadsheets, and office automation, but its capabilities go much further.

🔸 Supports Python and Node.js, with the ability to install libraries from PyPI and npm
🔸 GitHub integration available for pulling and working with repos
🔸 Limitation: file uploads/downloads capped at 30 MB
🔸 Access: already live for Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers (enable in settings)
🔸 Pro users will gain access soon

With coding and library support built-in, Claude is edging closer to a true developer co-pilot, not just a productivity assistant.

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🎯 OpenAI launches jobs platform + certifications for the AI workforce

OpenAI rolled out a new Jobs Platform and AI Certifications program, aiming to both disrupt hiring and prepare workers for an economy reshaped by AI.

🔸 Jobs Platform uses AI to match companies with AI-skilled talent
🔸 Special focus on helping small businesses and governments access workers
🔸 Certifications span from basic AI use to prompt engineering and advanced skills
🔸 Target: certify 10M Americans by 2030, starting with a Walmart partnership
🔸 Training integrated into ChatGPT “Study mode” for easy upskilling

By fusing credentials with a hiring marketplace, OpenAI is positioning itself not just as a toolmaker — but as an infrastructure layer for the future of work.

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🚀 Apex raises $200M to scale satellite bus production capacity

Apex, the LA-based spacecraft company, just closed a $200 million Series D round led by Interlagos, pushing its valuation past $1 billion. The raise will supercharge its manufacturing, tech, and global reach.

🔸 Will use funds to expand production throughput and deepen technical capabilities
🔸 Also building out engineering teams, mission services, and new global sales channels
🔸 Co-founders Ian Cinnamon & Max Benassi bring experience from Synapse, SpaceX, and Astra; mission: reliable, standard satellite platforms for constellation scale
🔸 Apex claims a record: clean-sheet design to flight-ready satellite in under a year
🔸 Growth includes vertical integration (e.g. avionic, power, propulsion), expanding real estate (100,000+ ft²) to boost output ~50% plus room for R&D and payload integration.

If Apex delivers, it could help shift the bottleneck in space from launches to spacecraft platforms — enabling more rapid and reliable constellation deployment worldwide.

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🔍 AI-guided cameras enable solo surgery, a step toward surgical automation

Surgeons in Chile have used an AI-guided camera (part of the MARS robot) to perform a gallbladder removal alone, without a human assistant. The camera tracks the surgeon’s tools and adjusts angles automatically.

🔸 Combines magnetic surgical instruments with software that dynamically adjusts angles and views no external camera operator needed.
🔸 First time this has been done on a real patient, not just in animals or simulations.
🔸 Part of broader efforts: Johns Hopkins and others have already done complicated surgeries on pigs using AI-guided systems.
🔸 The global surgical robot market is large and growing: ~$15.6B in 2024, projected to reach ~$64.4B by 2034.

We’re seeing tangible moves toward surgical automation with AI not just assisting but taking a more autonomous role. But questions remain: how reliably can these systems perform in diverse, high-risk settings, and how fast will regulatory, safety, and adoption hurdles be overcome?

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🤖 Figure hits a $39B valuation in latest funding round

Figure, the humanoid robotics startup, raised over $1B in its Series C round, placing its valuation at $39 billion.

🔸 Funding led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from Nvidia, Intel Capital, Brookfield and others.
🔸 Capital will be used to scale up its humanoid robot fleet, build infrastructure for training robots, and kick off advanced data collection.
🔸 Since its founding in 2022, Figure has raised nearly $2B in total.

Robotics is continuing its push into real-world deployment, not just lab demos. With massive funding and backing from big hardware players, humanoid robots working alongside humans in factories and warehouses are looking less sci-fi and more imminent.

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