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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
📱 Lenovo launches $44 AI phone for students
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Meta's superintelligence chief Alexandr Wang told employees in a town hall that the company's upcoming model, codenamed Watermelon, has "caught up" with OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on closely followed AI benchmarks, according to Business Insider, which cited two people familiar with the matter.
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Lenovo just reportedly launched its AI Student Phone in China, a new 299-yuan (~$44 USD) device stripped down with only basic functionalities like calling, parental tracking, and a dedicated AI button to enlist for homework help. The device features a screen smaller than a credit card that kids can write on by hand, tough glass for durability, and a lanyard for a backpack attachment.
Alibaba is banning Claude Code from its employees effective from July 10 over a hidden backdoor that flags China users. Alibaba pulled Claude Code from its offices and moved staff to its in-house tool, Qoder. Researchers say the tool checked timezones and proxy data against a hidden list of Chinese labs. Anthropic says the feature was a March experiment to stop account abuse, not surveillance.
World's four leading AI CEOs asked Congress to control DNA sales before AI outpaces guardrails. Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman co-signed the letter to U.S. lawmakers. It was signed by more than 50 figures across AI, biotech, national security and academia, including Nobel laureates.
Amazon Leo now has enough satellites in orbit to begin serving customers. The constellation now has more than 390 satellites. Amazon began offering an enterprise preview for select businesses last year. Its commercial service will likely initially be limited to users in certain geographic regions.
Hampton took $440K in planned hires off the calendar
Hampton co-founder Joe Speiser had three roles budgeted: a data engineer, an ops manager, a PM. $440K. He installed Viktor on April 12. Forty-four days later, none are on the calendar, and 18 of his team work with Viktor daily. His VP: we are editors now, not creators.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
🌍 The UN's first-ever Global Dialogue on AI Governance opens in Geneva.
🛡️ Cloudflare will block AI Agent and Training crawlers on ad-supported sites by default from Sept 15.
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