📼 xAI releases Grok Imagine 1.0 video model

xAI released Grok Imagine 1.0 for video generation. The update improves audio quality and overall visuals. The model outputs videos up to 10 seconds at 720p.

Free access is limited to 480p and 6 seconds. Higher resolution and longer clips require paid access.


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🧹 YouTube removes 2 major AI slop channels with 6M subs each

YouTube deleted the channels CuentosFacianantes and Imperio de Jesus. Each had about 6M subscribers and around 1B total views. Another 16 large AI-driven channels lost all published videos.

Both channels focused on low-quality, mass-produced AI content. YouTube had already promised a crackdown on this type of material last year, starting with fake movie trailer channels.

At the same time, YouTube is expanding its own AI tools for Shorts. Users will soon be able to generate Shorts with custom avatars.


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🤚 China bans hidden door handles on EVs

China will ban flush and retractable door handles on electric vehicles. From Jan 1, 2027, all new EVs must have mechanical door opening inside and outside. Approved models get a delay until Jan 2029.

The rule follows fatal crashes where electronics failed and doors could not be opened, including cases linked to Xiaomi EVs. About 60% of top-selling EVs are affected, including models from Tesla.

BYD and Geely are already switching back. China is now setting EV safety design rules at scale.


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🎮 GTA VI confirmed for November 19 release

GTA VI is still scheduled to launch on November 19. Developers and publisher Take-Two Interactive said there are no plans to delay the release.

The company also confirmed a major marketing push starting this summer. More ads, announcements, and official materials are coming.

The timeline is now locked around a heavy promo cycle.


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⏰ LEGO clock tracks time up to a galactic year

A YouTube creator built a fully mechanical LEGO clock that measures time from seconds up to a galactic year.

The system works continuously and includes a scale reaching 1 billion years.

A galactic year is one full orbit of the Solar System around the Milky Way’s center.

It lasts about 225–250 million Earth years.

The clock places the universe at roughly 61 galactic years old, with the Solar System around 20 and currently mid-way through the 21st.

The mechanism uses a classic pendulum with an escapement and a weight on a string.

When the weight reaches the bottom, an electric motor rewinds it through a differential so the pendulum keeps swinging.

Power comes from a built-in solar panel that rotates with the Sun.


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🎥 Logitech brings AI framing to large meeting rooms

Logitech unveiled Rally AI Camera and Rally AI Camera Pro, priced at $2,500 and $3,000. Both target large conference rooms where speakers drift out of frame and faces get lost.

The cameras use Rally optics with RightSight 2. The system switches automatically between a wide shot, a close-up of the speaker, or a balanced grid view for all participants.

The Pro version adds a dual-camera setup with a 115° wide lens plus a separate optical camera with 15x hybrid zoom and a 1-inch sensor. It supports multi-camera layouts in Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with automatic switching.

This is purpose-built hardware for big rooms, not everyday meeting spaces.


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🧠 The man who invented AI

In 1956, one mathematician asked a question that sounded like science fiction at the time:
“What if a machine could think?”

That question gave birth to the term Artificial Intelligence.
That man was John McCarthy.
And that moment quietly started the AI story we are living inside today.

McCarthy did not build startups or pitch investors. He did something riskier. He defined ideas decades ahead of their time.

🔸 He argued that intelligence is not magic or “human essence”, but a formal system that can be described with logic
🔸 He created Lisp, the language used for AI long before Python or neural networks
🔸 He believed real AI should reason, set goals, and draw conclusions, not just predict the next token

When we talk today about AI agents, reasoning models, or autonomous decision systems, we are mostly catching up to ideas outlined 60 to 70 years ago.

The irony is that McCarthy was a skeptic. He did not believe in black-box magic and would likely be very strict with modern LLMs.

But his focus on logic, goals, and agency is exactly what is becoming relevant again.


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A guy just cooked with code and robotics, and made a machine move like it has rhythm.


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⏫ SanDisk raises SSD prices

American SSD maker SanDisk sharply increased prices across its lineup.

Some models went up by as much as 4x.
A flagship 8TB SSD now costs over $2,500.

At that price point, the drive alone costs more than a full PC did not long ago.


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🧪 OpenAI links GPT-5 to an autonomous lab and cuts protein costs by 40%

OpenAI connected GPT-5 to a fully autonomous laboratory. The setup reduced the cost of producing the sfGFP protein from $698 to $422 per gram.

Human involvement was limited to preparing reagents and monitoring.

GPT-5 designed experiment batches. The lab executed them. Results were fed back into the next cycle.

There were 6 iterations in total, covering 36,000 reaction compositions.

The system identified cheaper reaction mixes that had not been tested before. Protein yield increased by 27% after optimization.

This is a full closed-loop setup. At this stage, it is large-scale automated trial and error, but done faster and cheaper than manual lab work.


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Now you can mass unsubscribe from emails from within the Gmail app.

This is the first really good gmail feature release since they killed Inbox.


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