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Send us a text AI News Summaries https://pub-36bb25f94ff54a95ab17262f114a5985.r2.dev/fg-55183.html https://pub-36bb25f94ff54a95ab17262f114a5985.r2.dev/fg-54633.html AI Tweet Summaries https://pub-36bb25f94ff54a95ab17262f114a5985.r2.dev/fg-55187.html https://pub-36bb25f94ff54a95ab17262f114a5985.r2.dev/fg-54641.html Health & Bioscience OpenAI is expanding into healthcare with Retro Biosciences, developing custom models that improved Yamanaka factor variants for cell reprogramming. Their GPT-5 medical upgrades aim to deliver health guidance at scale. TrackPaw Scientific raised €2.3M for AI monitoring tools to improve preclinical research and animal welfare. Major Company Moves Apple is negotiating with Google to integrate Gemini into Siri, with a possible September announcement and rollout between 2026. Meta struck deals with Midjourney for advanced image/video generation across its platforms and secured a $10B cloud agreement with Google. OpenAI opened its first office in New Delhi as India becomes ChatGPT's second-largest market. Databricks is acquiring Tecton to accelerate enterprise AI, promising streamlined development for business customers. Model & Tool Releases Google opened Veo 3 video generation to all users with a free weekend trial. DeepSeek V3.1 launched with hybrid "Think/Non-Think" inference and aggressive pricing. GPT-5 topped the MCP Universe agent benchmark and showed gaming prowess in Pokémon Crystal. Cohere released Command A with strong enterprise reasoning capabilities. Yupp.ai added Nano Banana and DeepSeek v3.1 image models. Infrastructure & Efficiency xAI announced Colossus 2 for gigawatt-scale training. Google reported a 33x reduction in Gemini's energy use per prompt year-over-year. Researchers warned that large AI model training could strain power grids. DeepMind released AlphaEarth embeddings (6 TB) for geospatial research. Business & Industry Midjourney reached $500M ARR with just 40 employees. Scale AI is licensing Midjourney technology. Salesforce launched Agentforce for Public Sector. Microsoft is testing Copilot's natural-language file search in Windows 11. Eme How Hacks Happen Hacks, scams, cyber crimes, and other shenanigans explored and explained. Presented... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Everyday AI: Your daily guide to grown with Generative AI Can't keep up with AI? We've got you. Everyday AI helps you keep up and get ahead. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show 🌍 INAI • The Open AI Hub The Intelligence Atlas → the world’s most comprehensive, open hub of AI knowledge. 2 Million+ tools, models, agents, tutorials & daily news —free for all, updated every day. https://github.com/inai-sandy/inAI-wiki