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A profile of Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old Thiel Fellow who gained recognition for using AI to help decipher the Herculaneum papyri and later joined DOGE (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-30 AI

Google begins rolling out new AI Mode features: Search Live with video, Canvas for planning, and PDF upload, plus AI Mode in Google Lens in desktop Chrome (9to5google.com)
2025-7-30 Google AI Chrome

Yelp is making AI videos about restaurants, using AI generated scripts and voice-overs based on reviews, incorporating pictures and videos posted by users (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-30 AI

Apple Loses Fourth AI Researcher in a Month To Meta (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-7-30 AI Apple

Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios (www.theinformation.com)
2025-7-30 AI Robot Autonomous Car

Sources: Apple loses a fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta's superintelligence team; the AFM team is in flux and Apple has marginally increased their pay (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-30 AI Apple

60% of Americans Use AI for Search, Only 37% for Workplace Tasks, New Poll Finds (slashdot.org)
2025-7-30 U.S. AI

Sparrow, which uses AI to consolidate fragmented leave management processes, raised a $35M Series B led by Silver Lake Waterman, for $64M in total funding (venturebeat.com)
2025-7-30 AI Silver

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg mulls more shake-ups to Meta's AI strategy; he lost faith in Meta's AI team during the controversy over allegations it gamed benchmarks (www.cnbc.com)
2025-7-30 AI Zuckerberg

A survey of US adults: only ~40% report using AI for work and 60% say they use AI to find information at least some of the time, rising to 74% of under-30s (apnews.com)
2025-7-30 AI

Microsoft Edge now an 'AI-powered browser' with Copilot Mode (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-30 Microsoft AI Browser

Filing: Bit Digital-owned AI infrastructure company Whitefiber seeks to raise $132.8M in an IPO, selling 7.8M shares for $15 to $17 for an up to $593M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-30 IPO AI

AI Boom Sparks Fight Over Soaring Power Costs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-7-30 AI

Ambience Healthcare, which uses AI to automate administrative tasks for medical professionals, raised $243M led by a16z and Oak HC/FT at a $1B+ valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-29 AI

Internal memo: Meta is piloting AI-enabled coding interviews, letting candidates use AI during the process, and asks for “mock AI-enabled interview” volunteers (www.404media.co)
2025-7-29 Interview AI

Adobe rolls out new generative AI features for Photoshop to let users more easily add or remove people and objects, including “Harmonize” compositing, in beta (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-29 AI Adobe

China used its World AI Conference to assert its AI ambitions to an international audience, presenting an alternative to President Trump's “America First” plans (t.co)
2025-7-29 Trump China U.S. AI

Permalink to AI-enabled software development: Risk of skill erosion or catalyst for growth? (sdtimes.com)
2025-7-29 AI

Humane AI pin was a flop… so I used the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 as an AI device in my jeans pocket (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-29 Samsung AI

Job postings for non-tech roles requiring AI skills are on the rise, new report finds (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-29 AI

Microsoft introduces AI features in Edge browser with Copilot Mode (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-29 Microsoft AI Browser

Humans are just slightly better than a coin toss at spotting AI pics, study finds (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-29 AI

Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-29 NLP AI

Google will roll out AI Mode in the UK in the coming days after launching in the US and India; the optional feature will appear as a tab and in the search box (www.bbc.com)
2025-7-29 India Google AI

BlinkOps, which provides AI agents for cybersecurity tasks like managing identity access and patching bugs, raised a $50M Series B led by OG Venture Partners (www.calcalistech.com)
2025-7-29 AI

Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, unveils its model Aristotle, saying it achieved gold medal performance on the 2025 IMO (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-29 Startup AI Mathematics

Seattle-based Dropzone AI, which offers AI agents that act as Security Operations Center analysts, raised a $37M Series B led by Theory Ventures (www.geekwire.com)
2025-7-29 AI Seattle

Salient, which uses AI to automate the post-loan origination process for lenders, raised a $60M Series A led by a16z, a source says at a $350M valuation (www.axios.com)
2025-7-29 AI

Tesla Signs $16.5 Billion Contract With Samsung To Make AI Chips (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-7-29 Samsung AI Tesla

Faculty and students on Chinese campuses are enthusiastically embracing AI, and the level of public excitement for AI in China is far greater vs. the US and UK (www.technologyreview.com)
2025-7-29 China AI

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