🔥 Musk's XAI burns $1B p/m on AI

🦾Plus: 🧠 ChatGPT may weaken brain activity, MIT study finds

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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

  • ⚡ Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, Flash-Lite

  • 🚫 Meta fails to poach OpenAI staff

  • 🤖 China’s AI avatars outsell humans in livestream

  • 🧠 ChatGPT may weaken brain activity, MIT study finds

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:Add image generation and editing to projects

  • 🤯 6 new AI Tools

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Google just graduated its Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models to stable production status after months of preview version updates, while also rolling out a new, hyper-efficient Flash-Lite variant.

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Meta seems to be on a hiring spree lately to staff up its new superintelligence team. It has reportedly offered employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind compensation packages worth upwards of $100 million. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that those efforts have largely been unsuccessful.

Chinese entrepreneur Luo Yonghao just utilized an AI digital twin on a six-hour livestream on Baidu’s e-commerce platform, outperforming his human-led streams with over $7M in sales generated during the broadcast.

xAI is trying to raise $9.3 billion in debt and equity, with plans to spend more than half of it in just the next three months. The startup is expected to burn through about $13 billion over the course of 2025. Its prolific fundraising efforts are just barely keeping pace with expenses.

A new MIT study says ChatGPT could harm brain development when used for schoolwork, especially in younger users. Researchers tested 54 students writing essays with ChatGPT, Google, or no tools. ChatGPT users showed the lowest brain activity and effort over time.

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Flux.1 Kontext API to add professional image generation and editing capabilities to any application with simple API calls.

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  1. Visit Black Forest Labs playground, create a free account, and copy your API key for authentication

  2. Use the Google Colab notebook provided here, replace “BFL_API_KEY” with your key, and modify the prompt

  3. For editing, upload your image to Colab, update the filename, and add editing prompts

  4. Copy the working code to Cursor/Windsurf and prompt: “Create a web app for image generation with this API structure”

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

🏛️ Introducing OpenAI for Government.

🎓 Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI.

🎬 For some in the industry, AI filmmaking is already becoming mainstream.

📱 TikTok will let brands generate AI influencer content that mimics what human creators might share.

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