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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
⚡ Grok 2.5 Open Sourced
🍎Apple to Kick Off Three-Year Plan to Reinvent Its Iconic iPhone
🕶️Meta's New 2mm Laser Display Could Enable True AR Glasses
🔥Meta FAIR researchers released DeepConf
💡 AI Tutorial:How to restore your old photos with AI
🤯 6 new AI Tools
🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day
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Elon Musk’s xAI is planning to simulate software giants like Microsoft with a new AI-only project called “Macrohard.” xAI filed a trademark for “Macrohard” on August 1. The filing covers AI tools for speech, text, and even game design. Musk says software companies without hardware can be fully simulated by AI.
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xAI just released Grok 2.5's model weights with the full system prompts included. And Musk is already teasing an open Grok 3 in about half a year, if he actually sticks to the timeline this time.
Apple will lay the foundation for a once-in-a-generation iPhone overhaul at its next product launch event. The company has planned three straight years of major iPhone redesigns. The plan starts with the iPhone Air, a skinny new model that follows the MacBook Air laptop strategy. Apple's first foldable iPhone will arrive in 2026
Meta researchers have found a new use for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), chips that can receive, modulate, and direct light. Their PICs can receive RGB light from laser light sources integrated into a panel, process it, then shine light onto a liquid crystal on a silicon panel for final display. The overall complex is just two millimeters thick and has a dramatically better color gamut over similar displays.
Meta FAIR researchers released DeepConf, a method of deep thinking that achieved 99.9% on the AIME benchmark using open-source models. It leverages model-internal confidence signals to dynamically filter low-quality reasoning traces during or after generation.
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AI Tutorial
How to restore your old photos with AI
Go to Kontext Chat and sign up with your account. You may need to generate a token first.
Upload your old, black-and-white image, type your prompt, and hit Enter.
Sample Prompt: ‘Add color to this image and remove all scratches‘
Wait for a few seconds and you’ll get your old image instantly restored.
Click on the image to open and download it.
You can edit your images by writing simple prompts till you get your desired results.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
✅ Malaysia launches Ryt Bank — the world’s first AI-powered bank.
🎬 YouTube secretly used AI to edit people’s videos. The results could bend reality.
🐕 AI-powered robo dogs begin food delivery trials in Zurich.
🩺 Research suggests doctors might quickly become dependent on AI.
💼 Databricks to buy Sequoia-backed Tecton in AI agent push.
🧠Baidu launched MuseStreamer 2.0, a family of image-to-video models
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