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August 19, 2025

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

  • ✍️ Grammarly’s new AI agents for writing

  • 🎮 Game developers embracing AI at massive scale

  • 🍎iPhone 17, the ‘thinnest iPhone ever’

  • 💰 US Government Intel’s biggest stakeholder?

  • 💡 AI Tutorial: How to add music to your videos with AI

  • 🤯 6 new AI Tools

  • 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

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Alibaba's Qwen team just dropped Qwen-Image-Edit, a 20B parameter open-source image editing model that tackles both pixel-perfect edits and style transformations while keeping the original characters and objects intact. Qwen-Image-Edit splits editing into two tracks: changes like rotating objects or style transfers, and edits to specific areas while keeping everything else intact.

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Grammarly just released eight new AI agents that act as intelligent writing collaborators, automatically assisting both students and professionals across tasks like citations, grading, proofreading, plagiarism detection, and more. Agents include Reader Reactions, which predicts confusion a reader may have, and AI Grader for giving feedback and grades based on rubrics/course info.

Google Cloud revealed new research that found over 90% of game developers are integrating AI into their workflows, with respondents saying the tech has helped reduce repetitive tasks, drive innovation, and enhance player experiences. A survey of 615 developers across five countries found teams using AI for everything from playtesting (47%) to code generation (44%).

Apple is expected to release its iPhone 17 lineup on September 9 along with updates for the Apple Watch and AirPods. There are many rumors circulating, including bigger screens and improved cameras for the iPhone 17 range and the introduction of an ultra-thin iPhone Air model.

Big investors are buying this “unlisted” stock

When the founder who sold his last company to Zillow for $120M starts a new venture, people notice. That’s why the same VCs who backed Uber, Venmo, and eBay also invested in Pacaso.

Disrupting the real estate industry once again, Pacaso’s streamlined platform offers co-ownership of premier properties, revamping the $1.3T vacation home market.

And it works. By handing keys to 2,000+ happy homeowners, Pacaso has already made $110M+ in gross profits in their operating history.

Now, after 41% YoY gross profit growth last year alone, they recently reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO.

Paid advertisement for Pacaso’s Regulation A offering. Read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving a ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the NASDAQ is subject to approvals.

President Trump is reportedly in talks with tech giant Intel to take a 10% stake in the company (worth $10.5B), which, if the deal goes through, will make the US Government Intel’s biggest shareholder. As part of the deal, the US Government is considering turning some (or all) of the grants Intel received from former President Biden’s CHIPS-Act (which totals $10.9B) into equity for the company.

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AI Tutorial

How to add music to your videos with AI

  • Go to ElevenLabs and sign up.

  • Select Studio > Video to Music.

  • Upload your video. ElevenLabs will automatically analyze it and generate a music prompt that describes the type of soundtrack to create.

  • Click ‘Generate’ to produce your first soundtrack version.

  • Edit the prompt (genre, mood, instruments) and hit ‘Generate’ for a new variation.

  • Listen to the different versions, choose the one that best fits your video, and save/download it.

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🔥AI Tools to supercharge your productivity

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  5. DocXter is a smart, simple, and easy-to-use document intelligence application.

  6. Clarity AI is a state-of-the-art AI Image Upscaler & Enhancer that supports upscaling from 64px to 37 megapixels

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

🤡 Another day, another Grok scandal

🚀 OpenAI launches $5 ChatGPT plan in India

⚡ Goldman Sachs’ Take on AI + Jobs: Not the End, Just a Reroute

🤝 Stanford HAI & Google DeepMind teamed up for the AI Challenge.

📊 Perplexity Finance supports live earnings call transcripts for stocks.

⚖️ Texas accused Meta, Character AI of misleading as mental health tools

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