xAI's co-founder, Igor Babuschkin, announced his departure from the company He is now starting Babuschkin Ventures to support AI safety research and invest in AI startups that “advance humanity and unlock the mysteries of our universe."
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Google Rolls Out Memory Feature for Gemini Assistant
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Google has started rolling out its own version of memory for Gemini Dubbed 'personal context,' the feature will enable the assistant to reference past chats for more relevant conversations Users also get a temporary chat to exclude info from memory
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Google Rolls Out Memory Feature in Gemini AI
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AI NEWS: Google is finally rolling out memory in Gemini Plus, more news from xAI, Anthropic, Tencent, Higgsfield AI, and Liquid. Here's everything you need to know:
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Silicon Valley’s AI Feuds, Neuralink Competitors, and Chrome Acquisition News
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Top stories in AI today: – Musk threatens Apple, feuds with Altman
– OpenAI set to back Neuralink competitor
– Run advanced AI models on your computer
– Perplexity’s $34B offer to buy Chrome
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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Mistral Releases Medium 3.1 Model with Enhanced Performance
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Mistral released Mistral Medium 3.1, an upgraded model that shows improvements in overall performance and creative writing Now available as the default model in Mistral's Le Chat chatbot or via API
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Tencent Launches Hunyuan-Large-Vision Multimodal Model
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Tencent announced Hunyuan-Large-Vision, a multimodal understanding model It excels in complex tasks like visual reasoning, video understanding, and 3D spatial comprehension Also scored 1256 on the LMArena Vision leaderboard, on par with frontier models
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Vercel launches v0.app agentic AI web developer for everyone
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Vercel updated https://t.co/qoXY36qeXl to https://t.co/4H7pxmxpjQ, an agentic web app developer for everyone
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 13 août 2025
The revamped offering uses agentic AI to plan, research, build, and debug, while working in context, across multiple steps, and adapting on the gopic.twitter.com/pn22AakMCRVercel updated http://
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v0.app, an agentic web app developer for everyone The revamped offering uses agentic AI to plan, research, build, and debug, while working in context, across multiple steps, and adapting on the go -
Anthropic Expands Claude Access to US Government, Increases Context Window
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Anthropic shared two key updates: —Claude assistant to be offered to “all three branches” of the U.S. govt for just $1 (much like OpenAI)
—Claude Sonnet 4 now comes with a 1M context window for API use, marking a 5x increase -
Ford’s $5B EV Push, GitHub Leadership Change, Tech Headlines
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Top stories in tech today: – Ford invests $5B to build affordable EVs
– Github’s CEO quits, Microsoft takes over
– Secretive startup Periodic nabs millions
– SpaceX now controls a city’s water supply
– Quick hits on other tech news Read more: https://
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GPT-5 Updates, AI Agents, and Major Tech Developments
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Top stories in AI today: – Sam Altman details GPT-5 fixes in AMA
– Ex-OpenAI researcher raises $1.5B for AI hedge fund
– Automate meeting prep with AI Agents
– Google, NASA’s AI doctor for astronauts
– 4 new AI tools & community insights Read more: https://
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