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🤖 Figure 03 robot now does household chores
🔄 YouTube offers a second chance to banned creators
📈 AI will drive nearly all US growth in 2025
🚀 Sora hit 1M downloads faster than ChatGPT
🧠 10,000 patients want the Neuralink brain chip
🛑 China cracks down on Nvidia AI chip imports
🎁 + 16 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Figure 03 robot now does household chores LINK
Figure AI's new humanoid robot, Figure 03, was shown performing household chores like folding clothes, tidying rooms, and carefully placing dishes into a dishwasher after rinsing them in the sink.
The machine operates on a proprietary AI system called Helix, which replaced OpenAI's models and allows it to complete complex actions in real-time without following a predetermined script.
To improve grasping, each hand now contains an embedded palm camera that gives Helix close-range visual feedback, letting the robot work when its main cameras are occluded inside cabinets.
🔄 YouTube offers a second chance to banned creators LINK
YouTube is launching a pilot program that offers a second chance to creators whose channels were previously terminated, allowing them to request a new account one year after the ban.
The policy change follows a letter from parent company Alphabet stating that creators terminated under outdated COVID-19 and election integrity policies would have an opportunity to rejoin the platform.
This program excludes anyone terminated for copyright infringement, and approved creators must start over from scratch with a completely new channel instead of regaining access to their old one.
📈 AI will drive nearly all US growth in 2025 LINK
Investment in information processing technology and data centers is so significant that without it, US annualized GDP growth for early 2025 would have been a mere 0.1 percent.
"Hyperscaler" tech companies are funneling nearly $400 billion into capital expenditures for data centers annually, a fourfold increase now adding one percentage point to America's real GDP.
The dollar value from building AI-related data centers has for the first time outpaced consumer spending as the primary driver of expansion, while traditional sectors like manufacturing remain sluggish.
🚀 Sora hit 1M downloads faster than ChatGPT LINK
OpenAI's video-generating app Sora reached one million downloads across all platforms in less than five days, a faster pace than ChatGPT achieved, even while operating in an invite-only mode.
On iOS, the new app saw 627,000 installs during its first seven days, narrowly surpassing the 606,000 downloads that ChatGPT recorded in its own initial week on the App Store.
This level of consumer adoption is notable because the video application requires an invitation for access, whereas ChatGPT was publicly available to everyone at the time of its own launch.
🧠 10,000 patients want the Neuralink brain chip LINK
Neuralink has a backlog of 10,000 individuals wanting its N1 brain chip, though only twelve patients have received the implant with the company expecting to reach 25 by year's end.
The company says the latency between a user's intention and the system's output is ten times faster than a normal brain-to-muscle response, making computer actions feel almost instantaneous.
Neuralink built its own surgical robot from the beginning to address a future shortage of neurosurgeons, viewing this deep vertical integration as a key differentiator from rival BCI companies.
🛑 China cracks down on Nvidia AI chip imports LINK
Chinese customs officials, coordinated by the Cyberspace Administration of China, are inspecting data-center hardware at major ports to stop imports of Nvidia's H20 and RTX 6000D processors.
The campaign has now broadened to include all advanced semiconductor products, directly targeting the gray market pipeline that has been smuggling repurposed A100 and H100 boards into the country.
This crackdown creates near-term friction for companies like ByteDance and Alibaba, who now face indefinite delays for H20 shipments and slower rollouts of homegrown Chinese silicon.
Other news you might like
- Researchers find just 250 malicious documents can leave LLMs vulnerable to backdoorsLINK
- Tesla faces probe after accidents in cars fitted with full self-driving softwareLINK
- Amazon takes shots at ChatGPT with Quick Suite - your new AI 'teammate' at workLINK
- Apple doubles its biggest bug bounty reward to $2 millionLINK
- OpenAI says Google, Microsoft, and Apple are locking in customers and blocking fair AI competitionLINK
- Singapore company alleged to have helped China get $2 billion worth of Nvidia AI processors, report claimsLINK
- Google may be forced to loosen control of search engine in UKLINK
- Chinese regulators are investigating Qualcomm's acquisition of AutotalksLINK
- OpenAI says GPT-5 shows 30 percent less political bias than previous modelsLINK
- Copilot on Windows can now create Office documents and connect to GmailLINK
- Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joins Microsoft and Anthropic as an adviserLINK
- Reflection raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeekLINK
- China blacklists Canadian chip research firm TechInsights following report on HuaweiLINK
- Many managers say they trust AI agents more than junior workersLINK
- EU eyes euro stablecoins to challenge dollar monopolyLINK
- Sora copycats flooded Apple’s App Store, and some still remainLINK
Latest research and tools
Spock: an open source extension that provides logical multi-master replication for PostgreSQL, allowing multiple database servers to be updated at the same time.LINK
Reasoning LLMs are wandering solution explorers: these models solve reasoning problems by exploring various potential answers instead of following a direct, logical path.LINK
Open-Agent.io: an open-source tool that lets AI models like OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini collaborate to complete tasks for you while keeping you in control of the final decisions.LINK
Lore Engine: an AI tool that transforms educational content like lecture videos, PDFs, and notes into a single set of comprehensive and searchable study materials.LINK
Barbarians at the Gate: How AI Is Upending Systems Research: the paper argues that artificial intelligence is transforming computer systems research by replacing human-designed rules with data-driven, learned models.LINK
The Missing Link Between the Transformer and Models of the Brain: this paper shows that as Transformer models get better at predicting the next word, their internal activity more closely resembles neural activity in the human brain's language network.LINK
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