💰 OpenAI Finalizing $40 Billion Funding

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

• 👁️ Qwen’s QVQ-Max visual reasoning model

• 🔬 Anthropic reveals how Claude ‘thinks’

• ✈️ Google launches AI travel features

• 👥Meta debuts Friends tab

• 💡 AI Tutorial:Create interactive mind maps in seconds with NotebookLM

• 🤯 6 new AI Tools

• 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

👁️ Qwen’s QVQ-Max visual reasoning model

Alibaba's Qwen team released QVQ-Max, a new visual reasoning model that goes beyond basic image recognition to analyze and reason about visual information across images and videos.

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💰 OpenAI Close to Finalizing $40 Billion SoftBank-Led Funding

OpenAI is reportedly finalizing a massive $40B funding round led by SoftBank, which would make it the largest private funding in history — and nearly double the ChatGPT maker's valuation to $300B. SoftBank will invest an initial $7.5B, followed by another $22.5B later this year with other investors including Magnetar Capital, Coatue, and Founders Fund.

🔬 Anthropic reveals how Claude ‘thinks’

Anthropic released two research papers that reveal how its AI assistant Claude processes information, helping to better understand internal mechanisms that explain capabilities like multilingual reasoning and advanced planning. The researchers developed an "AI microscope" that reveals internal “circuits” in the model, showing how Claude transforms input to output in key tasks.

✈️ Google launches AI travel features

Google has announced several new AI-powered features—across Search, Maps, and Gemini—that are designed to help users plan their vacations.

Meta debuts Friends tab

Meta has introduced a Friends tab on Facebook to revive the original spirit of the social networking app. The Facebook Friends tab is designed to show users the latest posts from their friends instead of recommended content. It is now available in the US and Canada - there is no word on when it will debut in other countries.

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AI Tutorial

Create interactive mind maps in seconds with NotebookLM

Google has recently added interactive mind maps to NotebookLM, enhancing its ability to help users visually navigate complex information and better understand relationships between concepts in their documents.

1. Go to NotebookLM website 

2. Select "Create new" and add your sources—they can be PDFs, text, audio, copied text, website and YouTube links, Google Docs, etc. If you already created a notebook, just open it instead.

3. Once you're in, select the "Mind Map" option.

4. Open your mind map, and that's it! Explore and enjoy.

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

🤖 Microsoft Introduces Researcher and Analyst Agents

🥵 OpenAI says ‘our GPUs are melting’ as it limits ChatGPT image generation.

🤖 Harvard professor uses AI to replicate himself for tutor experiment.

🆚 Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance.

🚀 Satya Nadella: DeepSeek is the new bar for Microsoft’s AI success.

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