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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🇨🇳 24 Chinese Firms Cleared for Nvidia’s Chips
🤖 Apple Trains Robots in Fake Homes
🚨 Scientists Mind-Wipe Chinese AI to Bleed Freedom & Democracy!
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Set Up and Use OpenAI Dots
🤯 6 new AI Tools
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Nvidia’s board of directors just ordered an independent review of reports that CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a “foreign intelligence effort,” with Huang admitting to an extramarital affair in a letter to staff and saying, “There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.” Sec. of State Marco Rubio reportedly oversaw a spring memo on Jensen and Alice Huang, an Nvidia customer exec it linked to China’s top spy agency.
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Anthropic just published its own take on AI “dreaming,” sharing how Claude agents use downtime to fix and reorganize their memory, and what it’s learned about what an AI should actually bother remembering. Memory refers to notes Claude saves as files and reads back in later sessions, so it can build on past work instead of starting from scratch each time.

The U.S. cleared Chinese firms with blacklisted ties to handle Nvidia’s AI chips. Baidu, BYD and Tesla’s Shanghai unit are among roughly two dozen firms cleared for Nvidia’s H200. Reporters visited two of them, New Matrix and Maginfra, and found nothing but empty offices. Analysts tie Maginfra to sanctioned server maker Inspur, and two more approved firms link to suppliers of China’s military.

Robots don’t figure out how to sit in a chair on their own. A person has to walk them through it again and again. That’s a big reason why home robots still feel far off. But Apple may have found a way around it. They trained a humanoid robot in 1,000 homes that don’t exist. A computer generated each one with its own layout and furniture. Then the robot practiced inside them until it could get around on its own.

Nous Research released Arete-27B, an open-source AI model built from Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B, fine-tuned to reduce Chinese government-aligned responses and reinforce Western values. The team trained it on 53 million tokens and tested it across 803 prompts covering freedom of speech, democracy, privacy, and other political topics
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AI Tutorial
How to Set Up and Use OpenAI Dots
OpenAI Dots lets you create an AI helper that can work with your apps, files, and tasks. Here is how to set one up:

Open ChatGPT on desktop or the desktop app.
Click Dots, create a new Dot, and name it.
Connect apps like Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack, or other supported tools.
Choose whether the Dot can access your computer and files.
Set permissions for what it can do automatically and what needs your approval.
Give it a task, such as checking your email and calendar each morning.
Track its work under In Progress, Scheduled, and Completed.
If you don't see Dots, it may not be available for your account or region yet. So, use a VPN
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
💰 OpenAI reportedly closed an $11 billion funding tranche at a $1.25 trillion valuation
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