OpenAI is delaying the release of its highly anticipated open-weight model CEO Sam Altman shared on X that the company needs time to "run additional safety tests and review high-risk areas" The model was originally planned for this week
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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi-K2: 1T Parameter Open-Source MoE Model
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Moonshot AI released Kimi-K2, a 1T param open-source MoE model that: —Surpasses frontier AI like GPT-4.1 and Claude Opus 4 on coding, with new highs on math and STEM
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Major tech funding rounds: space drugs, AI math startup, Samsung folding phone
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Top stories in tech today: – Varda snags $187M to make drugs in space
– YouTube cracks down on AI videos
– Samsung to roll out triple-folding phone
– Math AI startup lands $100M
– Quick hits on other major tech news Read more: https://
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Meta researcher exposes AI culture concerns and weekly updates
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Top stories in AI today: – Ex-Meta researcher calls out ‘culture of fear’
– Google’s new open medical AI models
– Get up-to-date API information for AI coding tools
– Why do some AI models fake alignment
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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Robots Perform Surgery Autonomously and Break Speed Records
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Top stories in robotics today: – Robot performs surgery without human help
– Chinese robot dog breaks speed record
– Futurist Adam Dorr: The robots are coming
– Coyote robots guard U.S. military airfields
– Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://
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Grok 4 launches as OpenAI recruits top AI talent
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Top stories in AI today: – xAI releases Grok 4 following 3’s crashout
– Perplexity’s Comet for AI-first web
– Turn messy image filenames into descriptive ones
– OpenAI poaches top engineers from rivals
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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Tencent’s ArtifactsBench: Automated Evaluation for LLM Visual Artifacts
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Tencent's Hunyuan team introduced ArtifactsBench, an automated evaluation pipeline for LLM-generated visual artifacts It assesses models on 1,825 diverse tasks with MLLM-as-Judge evaluating visual artifacts, achieving 94.4% ranking consistency with human experts
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Hugging Face Launches Affordable Reachy Mini Desktop Robot
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Hugging Face opened orders for Reachy Mini, an expressive, open-source desktop robot
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 10 juillet 2025
Starting at just $299 and fully programmable in Python, it makes an ideal candidate for human-robot interaction, creative coding, and AI experimentationpic.twitter.com/C5AxiZdXyAHugging Face opened orders for Reachy Mini, an expressive, open-source desktop robot Starting at just $299 and fully programmable in Python, it makes an ideal candidate for human-robot interaction, creative coding, and AI experimentation
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Ai2 Launches FlexOlmo: Decentralized Language Model Co-Development
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Ai2 dropped FlexOlmo, a new paradigm for the co-development of language models
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 10 juillet 2025
It allows each data owner to locally branch from a shared public model, add an expert trained on their data locally, and contribute this expert back to the shared modelpic.twitter.com/xiaaBKKOTSAi2 dropped FlexOlmo, a new paradigm for the co-development of language models It allows each data owner to locally branch from a shared public model, add an expert trained on their data locally, and contribute this expert back to the shared model
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Google Rolls Out Gemini AI to Wear OS 4 Smartwatches
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Google started rolling out Gemini to Wear OS 4+ watches, including those from Pixel, Samsung, OPPO, OnePlus, and more The company is also expanding its AI Mode and adding it to Circle to Search to help users explore complex topics on Android https://
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