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🔮 Google's new AI can browse websites and apps for you
⚡️ Tesla reveals cheaper versions of Model 3 and Y
💰 Nvidia invests $2 billion in Elon Musk's xAI
🦾 Neuralink user controls a robot arm with brain chip
🚫 OpenAI bans hackers from China and North Korea
🤖 SoftBank makes a $5.4 billion bet on AI robots
🎁 + 17 other news you might like
🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools
🔮 Google's new AI can browse websites and apps for you LINK
Google Deepmind released its Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, which is designed to let AI agents operate web browsers and mobile interfaces by directly interacting with graphical elements.
The system functions in a continuous loop by looking at a screenshot, generating UI actions like clicking or typing, and then receiving a new screenshot to repeat the process.
To prevent misuse, a per-step safety service reviews every proposed action, while developers can also require user confirmation or block specific high-stakes actions from being performed by the AI.
⚡️ Tesla reveals cheaper versions of Model 3 and Y LINK
Tesla introduced cheaper entry-level cars, the Model Y Standard Rear-Wheel Drive for $39,990 and the Model 3 Standard for $36,990, with both new trims sharing the same 321-mile range.
To lower the price, both vehicles remove the rear passenger screen and Autosteer, replacing physical switches with touchscreen seat controls and using manual adjustments for mirrors and the steering wheel.
Interior comfort features are scaled back, with only front seats being heated, the panoramic glass roof getting a fabric headliner, and the sound system downgraded to a 7-speaker audio setup.
💰 Nvidia invests $2 billion in Elon Musk's xAI LINK
Nvidia is investing roughly $2 billion in equity in Elon Musk's xAI as part of a larger financing round that includes backers like Apollo Global Management and Valor Capital.
The arrangement uses a special-purpose vehicle to buy Nvidia chips and lease them back to xAI for five years, a setup that helps the AI firm avoid adding corporate debt.
These funds are for the Colossus 2 data-center buildout, though Musk denies raising capital, a claim possibly justified by the unconventional structure that avoids a direct cash injection for xAI.
🦾 Neuralink user controls a robot arm with brain chip LINK
Nick Wray, a patient with ALS, demonstrated controlling a robot arm with his Neuralink brain chip by directing the device to pick up a cup and bring it to his mouth.
Using the implant, Wray performed daily tasks like putting on a hat, microwaving his own food, opening the fridge, and even slowly driving his wheelchair with the robotic limb.
Neuralink’s device works by converting brain signals into Bluetooth-based remote commands, giving the user direct control to manipulate the movements of the separate robot arm.
🚫 OpenAI bans hackers from China and North Korea LINK
OpenAI has banned multiple accounts linked to state-sponsored actors in China and North Korea for using its AI models to create phishing campaigns, assist with malware, and draft surveillance proposals.
One group from China was caught designing social media monitoring systems and a “High-Risk Uyghur-Related Inflow Warning Model” to track the travel of targeted individuals with the technology.
The company’s investigation concludes these malicious users are building the tools into existing workflows for greater speed, rather than developing novel capabilities or getting access to new offensive tactics.
🤖 SoftBank makes a $5.4 billion bet on AI robots LINK
Japanese group SoftBank is making a major return to the bot business by acquiring ABB’s robotics division for $5.4 billion, pending the green light from government regulators.
Founder Masayoshi Son calls this new frontier “Physical AI,” framing it as a key part of the company's plan to develop a form of super intelligent artificial intelligence.
Robots are one of four strategic investment areas for SoftBank, which is also pouring huge amounts of money into chips, data centers, and new energy sources to dominate the industry.
Other news you might like
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- Facebook is turning into TikTokLINK
- Amazon is putting prescription drugs in vending machinesLINK
- Wall Street analysts explain how AMD’s own stock will pay for OpenAI’s billions in chip purchasesLINK
- Elon Musk promises to release a "great" AI-generated video game next yearLINK
- FCC Might Open the Floodgates for Starlink and Other Satellite ExpansionsLINK
- Anthropic plans to open India office, eyes tie-up with billionaire AmbaniLINK
- Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverseLINK
- OpenAI: Threat actors use us to be efficient, not make new toolsLINK
- OpenAI and Anthropic could use investor funds to cover multi-billion dollar AI lawsuitsLINK
- European Commission launches "Apply AI" and "AI in Science" strategies to boost AI adoptionLINK
- North Korean hackers stole over $2 billion in crypto so far in 2025, researchers sayLINK
- German government says it will oppose EU mass-scanning proposalLINK
- Nvidia's Huang says he's surprised AMD offered 10% of the company in 'clever' OpenAI dealLINK
- Michael Dell says 'at some point there'll be too many' AI data centers, but not yetLINK
- At Intel and beyond, CEOs find success going directLINK
- A 15-year mystery solved: The 20 bytes of code that fixed AntennagateLINK
Latest research and tools
Html.yeah: a Clojure library that lets developers define HTML components and their attributes using a schema.LINK
Samsung AI Model Release: Samsung released a 7 million parameter model that achieved a 45% score on the ARC-AGI-1 benchmark.LINK
Continuously Augmented Discrete Diffusion Model: this paper introduces a method that helps AI generate discrete data, like text, by augmenting it with a continuous variable to make the diffusion process more effective.LINK
HSGM: Hierarchical Segment-Graph Memory for Scalable Long-Text Semantics: this paper presents a new memory system that organizes long texts into a layered graph, helping AI models understand them more efficiently.LINK
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