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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🤖 OpenAI Is a B2B Company Now
🧮 Doctor solves 22-year math problem with ChatGPT
📨 Anthropic Is in the Dark About CEO's Wife
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create a video podcast using AI
🤯 6 new AI Tools
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Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that helps companies switch between AI models. The sale price of more than $7 billion could change and the discussions are not public. OpenRouter's rise highlights the industry's growing scrutiny on AI costs. The acquisition will give Stripe a stronger footing in the fast-growing AI sector.
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Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei just chimed in on investor Gavin Baker’s X conversation with coworker Sholto Douglas, rejecting that his safety alarms have backfired and saying the only way AI wins trust back is by “actually curing cancer.” Baker shared a rumor that Amodei envisions Anthropic one day becoming “the only private company in the world”, with Douglas calling it “completely false”.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told investors that enterprise revenue has overtaken ChatGPT's consumer business, months ahead of schedule. The company that became the most famous consumer AI product in history now makes the majority of its money selling to other companies. OpenAI's ARR hit $40 billion in July, up 20% month over month, with enterprise growing at 32%.
Beijing neurosurgery resident Shanmu Jin proved Crouzeix’s Conjecture, a matrix problem unsolved since 2004, with GPT-5.6 Sol surfacing the result after a 16-hour autonomous session in ChatGPT Work. Jin reached the problem through brain-ultrasound research, teaching himself advanced math after undergraduate geology and medical training.
Dario Amodei's wife Cami Clark advises him with no job title as Anthropic lines up its IPO. Claude cannot confirm that Dario Amodei is married, and almost nothing about his wife exists online. Clark works as a sounding board and strategic adviser to Amodei while holding no job at Anthropic. Justice Department files show her pitching Jeffrey Epstein for money and carry no accusation against her.
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AI Tutorial
How to create a video podcast using AI
HeyGen has a tool that lets you turn a PDF into an AI video podcast. You upload your file, and HeyGen creates a video where two AI hosts discuss the main ideas from the document.
Open HeyGen’s Video Podcast tool and sign in to your account.
Upload the PDF you want to turn into a video podcast. You can also add a website link or enter a topic.
HeyGen reads the PDF, writes the podcast script, and creates a discussion between two AI hosts.
You can choose the AI hosts and voices, then edit the script, tone, and key points before creating the video.
Click “Generate” to create the video podcast. Review the final video, make any needed changes, and export it as an MP4 file.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
⚔️ Anthropic set multiple AI agents on the same task and they started a turf war.
🔌 Kog is going deeper into GPU internals to squeeze more inference out of existing chips.
🧱 Databricks raised $5B at a $190B valuation, crossing $7B revenue run rate as CFOs balk at token costs.
🚀 SpaceX officially closed its Cursor acquisition, completing the $60B deal.
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