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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🤖 Qwen just got a seriously capable uncensored version
😬 Over One Million Users Have Clicked LinkedIn’s AI Slop Button
📱 Walmart is Finally Accepting Apple Pay & Google Pay
💡 AI Tutorial:How to do a digital declutter with Grok bot
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Your next iMessage convo could be powered by ChatGPT. OpenAI just launched a feature that allows the chatbot to control iMessage, reading, writing and sending texts for users, as well as fetching information from conversations and summarizing them. Users will have to actively consent to the new offering.
Independent teams including OrcaRouter and AEON-7 used a technique called “abliteration” to remove much of Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B’s refusal behavior without stripping away its core intelligence. It’s not an official Alibaba release, but a community modification that keeps the original model’s coding, agentic, vision, reasoning, and 262K-token context capabilities, while being small enough to run locally on consumer hardware.
Start spreading the news. For the first time, New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers, in large part thanks to AI. A new report from CBRE found New York’s 394k+ tech jobs pushed out the San Francisco Bay Area’s 375k+ jobs, the first time NYC has taken the lead in the 13 years of the analysis.
Apparently, LinkedIn’s new “Seems like AI slop” button is getting a lot of traction. The button, which the social platform announced on July 30th, has had “over a million people” click on the button, according to its Chief Product Officer. As a result, users are overall “now experiencing 40% less views on what [they] classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago.”
Retailer Walmart has long refused to adopt Apple Pay and Google Pay in an effort to promote its own in-house solutions, Walmart Pay and Scan-and-Go. But it seems they’ve changed their minds, now accepting the payments and adding Tap to Pay as payment options at Walmart and Sam’s Club locations beginning August 24.
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AI Tutorial
How to do a digital declutter with Grok bot
Source: petergyang
Go to Grok Bot, download the desktop app, and sign in
Go to Plugin > connect your Gmail and Google Drive
Click the “+” icon in the top-left corner > Create new Bot
Describe what you want the Bot to do in plain language. Grok will use your instructions to set up the Bot for your workflow
Once it’s ready, name your Bot so it’s easy to identify from the sidebar
Sample Prompt: "You are Marie Kondo for cleaning up digital clutter. Audit my email, Google Drive, and paid subscriptions, then create a cleanup plan with no more than 10 items per category. Find emails to unsubscribe from, redundant files to remove or rename, and paid subscriptions I may want to cancel. Do not move, delete, unsubscribe, or cancel anything without my approval."
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
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