First, the caveats: – It's still early, and struggles with longer workflows
– Most data is retained by Perplexity (privacy concern)
– Only available to Max users ($200/mo) or free with an invitation code (we just dropped 500 codes in The Rundown University)
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Perplexity AI Limitations: Privacy Concerns and Access Restrictions
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Google Launches Deep Search AI Research Tool
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We’re bringing deep research capabilities into AI Mode through Deep Search.
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) 16 juillet 2025
Deep Search is our most advanced research tool in @Google Search and can help save you hours of time by going deeper on your tougher, more complex questions.
How, you ask? Let's break it down. pic.twitter.com/rmDQgOr2RUWe’re bringing deep research capabilities into AI Mode through Deep Search. Deep Search is our most advanced research tool in @Google Search and can help save you hours of time by going deeper on your tougher, more complex questions. How, you ask? Let's break it down.
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Databricks Enhances Python UDFs with Custom Dependencies Support
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New in Unity Catalog: Enhanced Python UDFs! What's new: – Support for custom Python dependencies – Batch Python UDFs for better performance – Secure access to external services with UC Service Credentials Now in Public Preview: https://
databricks.com/blog/announcin
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AWS Integrates Image Generation Tools Into AI Agents
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AWS is making it easier to incorporate our image generation tools directly into your AI agents 👀👇 https://t.co/3ibeKgwwUc
— Stability AI (@StabilityAI) 16 juillet 2025AWS is making it easier to incorporate our image generation tools directly into your AI agents
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Kimi K2 Success: Bridging AI Model Capabilities and User Experience
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The success of Kimi K2 is no accident. The unfortunate reality in AI is that user experiences haven't yet fully caught up to raw model capabilities. Experiences have plateaued. There are only so many coding assistants, research tools, or agents you can realistically offer, and
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AI Product Launches, Tools, and Job Opportunities This Week
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Top stories in AI today: – Thinking Machine Labs nears product launch
– Runway's Act-Two for AI motion capture
– Automate personalized sales outreach at scale
– AI leaders unite on reasoning transparency
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
therundown.ai/p/mira-muratis
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AI Docs Generates Legal Docs in Seconds
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Tested AI Docs last night. Generated a custom NDA and SaaS agreement in under 90 seconds. Legit blew me away.
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Willow Secures $4.2M Seed Funding for Voice-First AI Interface
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Willow announced $4.2M in a seed round, led by Box Group and others
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 16 juillet 2025
The company is building an AI-powered voice-first interface to enable computing devices to understand user intent, tone, and context, and take relevant actionspic.twitter.com/iXxDl8H76VWillow announced $4.2M in a seed round, led by Box Group and others The company is building an AI-powered voice-first interface to enable computing devices to understand user intent, tone, and context, and take relevant actions
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Runway Launches Act-Two Motion Capture Animation Model
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Runway introduced Act-Two, its next-gen motion capture model
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 16 juillet 2025
It translates single performance videos into fully animated characters with head, face, body, and hand tracking across artistic styles and outputspic.twitter.com/Zn3tzlCbk2Runway introduced Act-Two, its next-gen motion capture model It translates single performance videos into fully animated characters with head, face, body, and hand tracking across artistic styles and outputs
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Mistral Launches Voxtral 24B and 3B Speech Models
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Mistral dropped Voxtral 24B and 3B speech understanding models The low-cost, open-source model family combines transcription with native Q&A capabilities and matches or outperforms models from ElevenLabs, Google, and OpenAI Available under Apache 2.0