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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🎓 a16z’s new AI-driven college alternative
🇨🇳 Alibaba Unveiled its Zhenwu V900 AI Chip
⌚ Apple Developing New Fitness Tracker
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create a project intelligence database with Notion
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Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, its strongest Opus model yet with Fable 5.1-level performance at a much lower cost. Opus 5.5 scored 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, ahead of Fable 5.1 at 55.8% and Opus 5 at 52.3%. It also posts Anthropic’s strongest results across coding, computer use and knowledge work. Opus 5.5 costs $4/$20 per million input/output tokens, 60% below Fable 5.1’s $10/$50 pricing.
OpenAI has launched Sol and Luna, filling out GPT-6 as a three-model family built for different levels of capability, speed and cost. GPT-6 Sol costs $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, 50% below GPT-5.6 Sol’s promotional pricing. Sol beat Claude Opus 5 on AutomationBench while costing roughly 91% less per completed task. Sol made about half as many factual mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol in OpenAI’s internal evaluation.
VC firm Andreessen Horowitz launched the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a $42M, one-year program for recent high school grads that swaps degrees for startup projects, co-ops at tech giants, and classes by Silicon Valley’s biggest names. Udemy’s Gagan Biyani leads the Academy, promising courses from instructors “your textbooks are written about” like Sam Altman and Brian Armstrong.
Alibaba picked a pointed week to show off homegrown silicon. At its Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, the company revealed the Zhenwu V900, an AI chip it says triples the performance of its predecessor, alongside plans for a 10 trillion parameter model. Commercial availability is slated for early 2027, right as Washington and Beijing sit down to argue about exactly this.
Apple is developing a screenless health and fitness tracker as part of an effort to rethink its smartwatch lineup and add new wearable technologies. The project is still in a preliminary phase and likely won't debut before 2028. Apple is working on a major update to its smartwatch lineup for release as early as late 2027.
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AI Tutorial
How to create a project intelligence database with Notion AI
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Open Notion, create a new page, choose Table, then select Build with AI.
Ask Notion AI to create a project database with fields like Project, Owner, Status, Due Date, Priority, Summary, Risks, and Keywords.
Sample prompt: “Create a project tracker for my team with Project, Owner, Status, Due Date, Priority, Summary, Risks, and Keywords. I want AI to help summarize each project and surface potential risks from the information stored in each project page.”
Add each project as a database entry and place relevant briefs, notes, decisions, and updates inside its page.
For Summary, open the property settings and choose AI Autofill > Basic > Summary.
Use AI Autofill for Keywords and other structured fields you want Notion to extract automatically.
For fields like Risks or Priority, use AI Autofill > Custom Agent with instructions such as: “Identify the biggest current risk and classify priority as High, Medium, or Low.”
Set AI properties to update manually, when pages change, or on a schedule so the database stays current.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
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