15 July 2025
Topic: Models And Releases
Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines
The feature will appear on iOS and Android in the U.S., with a focus on trending lifestyle topics like sports and entertainment. Google also noted the...
TL;DR
Google starts rolling out AI summaries in Discover, citing multiple news publishers' sources, in a move that could further impact website traffic and referrals.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Google is testing AI summaries in Discover, initially focusing on trending lifestyle topics like sports and entertainment.
- The feature could lead to further decline in website traffic and referrals, as users no longer need to visit websites to get answers.
- Publishers are experimenting with AI on their own sites, but some worry that Google's initiatives are coming too late to mitigate the impact on traffic.
This aerospike rocket engine designed by generative AI just completed its first hot fire test
“Despite their clear advantages, Aerospikes are not used in space access today. We want to change that.” AI is one of the most misused tools in modern...
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A 3D printed aerospike engine, designed with generative AI, has completed its first hot fire test, achieving 5,000 Newtons of thrust.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Aerospike engines, typically difficult to design and manufacture, can be optimized using generative AI algorithms.
- The 3D printed engine was developed in just a few weeks, with the AI-powered process potentially saving months of development time.
- Future iterations of the engine are planned, with the goal of making aerospike engines a viable option for space access.
Mistral’s Voxtral goes beyond transcription with summarization, speech-triggered functions
Mistral's open-source speech model Voxtral can recognize multiple languages, understand spoken instructions and also offer enterprise security....
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Mistral releases open-sourced voice model Voxtral, claiming state-of-the-art accuracy and native semantic understanding at a reduced cost compared to proprietary models.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Voxtral offers state-of-the-art accuracy and native semantic understanding in the open, at less than half the price of comparable APIs.
- Voxtral outperforms existing voice models including OpenAI's Whisper and Scribe from ElevenLabs, presenting fewer word errors.
- Voxtral supports multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and more, with private deployment and domain-specific fine-tuning enterprise features.
Finally, a dev kit for designing on-device, mobile AI apps is here: Liquid AI’s LEAP
LEAP addresses those needs head-on with a local-first approach that allows small models to run directly on-device, no cloud infrastructure....
TL;DR
Liquid AI releases LEAP, a cross-platform SDK for integrating small language models (SLMs) into mobile applications, emphasizing privacy-preserving, efficient AI on consumer hardware.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- LEAP SDK simplifies the integration of small models into mobile apps, reducing dependence on cloud infrastructure.
- The platform supports small models as lightweight as 300MB, compatible with modern phones with as little as 4GB of RAM.
- LEAP and Apollo, a companion iOS app, aim to decentralize AI access and execution, preserving user privacy and reducing reliance on cloud compute.
Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID
Perplexity and SheerID launch a global program offering students up to two years of free AI access through secure identity verification....
TL;DR
Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, partners with SheerID to offer up to two years of free premium services to over 264 million students worldwide.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- The partnership aims to provide educational access to expensive AI tools while preventing discount fraud.
- Perplexity's AI search engine differentiates itself from competitors by emphasizing accuracy and source attribution, addressing concerns about AI tools generating incorrect information.
- The joint initiative reflects broader trends in both the AI and identity verification industries, with SheerID expanding its products and Perplexity focusing on the education market.
The world’s best AI models operate in English. Other languages—even major ones like Cantonese—risk falling further behind
How do you translate “dim sum”? Many English speakers would find the question strange, knowing the term refers to the large array of small dishes …...
TL;DR
The world's best AI models primarily operate in English, which leaves languages like Cantonese and others with limited online data struggling to keep up, leading to AI performance gaps and mistranslations.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- Low-resource languages such as Cantonese, Vietnamese, and Bahasa Indonesia face significant challenges in developing AI models due to limited online data and potential government regulation.
- Machine translation risks missing linguistic nuance and cultural context, potentially leading to AI-generated content polluting low-resource languages' datasets and degrading performance.
- More organizations are investing in multilingual AI, but a broader industry push is necessary to ensure truly global accessibility and equity in AI technology.
Unless ChatGPT-5 gets these upgrades, I'm sticking with Claude — here's why
OpenAI is gearing up to launch ChatGPT-5, its most ambitious model yet. Rumored to feature a massive context window, enhanced reasoning, agent-like …...
TL;DR
Unless upcoming AI model ChatGPT-5 delivers meaningful upgrades, the author will stick with Claude for getting real work done due to its improved context understanding, connectors feature, natural language sound, fact accuracy, and agentic capabilities.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- ChatGPT-5 needs an ultra-large context window and better persistent memory across chats for tasks like research and writing.
- The model requires built-in integrations with popular apps like Google Drive and Slack for seamless functionality.
- GPT-5 should improve tone control, emotional intelligence, real-time search integration with source transparency, and honest handling of uncertainty to enhance its performance.
a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise
Data shows that the vast majority of images on Civitai were pornographic, and that the site hosted more than 50,000 AI models designed to recreate …...
TL;DR
New research reveals that the AI platform Civitai has a significantly higher volume of adult content than previously stated, with 56% of images tagged as NSFW by October 2023, contradicting the platform's CEO's earlier estimate.
Key Takeaways:
Key Takeaways:
- More than 40 million user-generated images on Civitai and over 230,000 models were studied, revealing a disproportionate rise in explicit content.
- The proportion of overtly sexual or disturbing content on the site grew from 41% to 80% in two years, with a significant increase in NSFW imagery in 2024.
- Civitai's CEO initially downplayed the site's adult content, stating that less than 20% of posts were 'PG-13' or above, but the data suggests that adult content was a dominant factor in the site's growth and user adoption.
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