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Italian scientists developed GO-ISMD, an artificial taste system with 90% accuracy in identifying basic tastes. Using graphene oxide, it detects flavors via conductivity changes, achieving 92.3% accuracy in distinguishing cola/coffee. Published in PNAS, it could help restore taste for impaired patients.....

Musk's AI model Grok4 excels in programming, creative tasks, and outperforms OpenAI o3 in 8 areas. It adapts explanations for all ages and shows potential to revolutionize work and life.....

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2, a 1 trillion-parameter open-source model, surpasses Grok in market share. It excels in 128K context reasoning, outperforms Claude/GPT-4 in benchmarks, and offers free API. Now open on Hugging Face.....

Claude AI introduces a major update with 'Apps & Tools Directory', enabling seamless AI-tool integration via MCP protocol. It supports both web and desktop MCP services for popular tools like Asana and GitHub, transforming Claude into a workflow platform.....

Unsloth AI quantized Moonshot AI's 1T-parameter Kimi K2 model to 1.8bit, reducing size by 80% to 245GB while maintaining performance. The MoE-based model excels in coding and reasoning, now deployable on 512GB M3Ultra devices, lowering costs. This advancement positions Kimi K2 as a GPT-4.1 competitor, benefiting SMEs and boosting open-source AI adoption in education/healthcare.....

Meta accelerates AI infrastructure, targeting a 1GW 'Prometheus' supercomputer with 1.3M NVIDIA H100 GPUs (2 exaflops) by 2026, plus 5GW 'Hyperion' cluster. Plans $60-65B investment by 2025 for AI/data centers, competing with OpenAI/xAI. Commits to open-source and privacy despite environmental concerns.....

UTCP, as an alternative to MCP, directly connects tool endpoints via JSON-defined functions, eliminating proxy layers for lower latency while maintaining security. Its simplicity and compatibility spark developer interest as a potential AI tool standard.....

Global developers have introduced a universal tool calling protocol (UTCP), allowing AI agents to directly call various tools without relying on proxy servers. Compared to traditional MCP protocols, UTCP supports native interfaces such as HTTP and gRPC, significantly reducing calling latency and complexity. The protocol retains existing enterprise security measures while providing SDKs in TypeScript and Python. Developers can participate in improving the protocol through open-source projects. UTCP has the potential to open up new pathways for AI tool integration.

A dramatic acquisition has recently taken place in the AI coding field: Cognition acquired Windsurf company. Previously, this company had experienced a $2.4 billion reverse talent acquisition by Google and an unsuccessful $3 billion acquisition offer from OpenAI. Windsurf generates $82 million in annual revenue, has 350 enterprise clients, and tens of thousands of daily active users. After the acquisition, Cognition will integrate Windsurf's AI development environment with its own Devin coding assistant and regain access to the Claude AI model. This deal marks another significant move in the competition.

Google launched NotebookLM with preloaded research content on 8 topics, featuring AI summaries, Q&A, and podcasts. Over 140K users shared notebooks in 4 weeks.....

Amazon Prime Day hit a record $24.1B US sales (+30.3%), equal to 2 Black Fridays. AI shopping surged 3300%, appliances/office supplies grew strongly. Extended to 4 days, Day 3 sales jumped 165%. Influencers drove 20% sales with 10x higher conversion rates.....

Musk's AI chatbot Grok introduces a new virtual companion feature, including two character options: Ani, an anime character, and Rudy, a cartoon panda. Ani supports NSFW mode. This feature is currently released in a soft launch, requiring users to enable it manually, with plans to simplify the process in the future. Additionally, it was revealed that a new character named Chad is under development, and the NSFW content toggle for voice chat mode is already supported. This innovative feature highlights the potential of AI in personalized interaction and is expected to enhance Grok's market competitiveness.

Tesla's Musk unveils anime-style AI companions for xAI's Grok chatbot, including virtual characters like Ani and Bad Rudy. The feature supports voice interaction and is exclusive to $30/month SuperGrok subscribers. While popular among anime fans, it raises AI ethics concerns. Musk claims Grok4 outperforms ChatGPT, but transparency issues persist. This marks xAI's key commercialization effort.....

Meta may shift from open-source to closed-source AI, potentially abandoning its 'Behemoth' model due to poor performance. Despite claims of commitment to open-source, this move could challenge Zuckerberg's vision, impact AI competition, and disadvantage smaller firms reliant on open models, including China's AI strategy.....

Amazon AWS launches a new AI development tool called Kiro, focusing on the concept of specification-driven development. The tool is based on the open-source Code OSS platform and is compatible with the VS Code ecosystem. It uses AI collaboration to first generate requirement documents and system designs, then automatically generates code, test cases, and documentation, ensuring code quality. Kiro supports multimodal input and automated testing features. It is currently available for free preview, and a paid version will be released in the future. Its specification-driven development model has the potential to address maintenance challenges with AI-generated code, but the initial usage may be complex.

On July 15, Mita AI Search announced the completion of a new iteration of its 'Deep Research' module and its official public beta launch, becoming the first search service in China that is freely open to the public and features multi-turn reasoning chain visualization. The upgraded system adopts a segmented reinforcement learning strategy, breaking down the originally computationally intensive 'Deep Research' tasks into multiple sub-tasks, maintaining result accuracy while reducing operational costs to a level that allows for public free access. It performs particularly well in retrieving and reasoning with Chinese corpus.

CAMEL-AI partners with Google Gemini2.5Pro to develop automated data visualization solutions, leveraging Gemini's reasoning and OWL system for low-code analytics via natural language input.....

OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf failed, and Google successfully poached its CEO and core team to join DeepMind. Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, had raised $200 million in funding and had a valuation of $1.25 billion. Google obtained non-exclusive licensing rights to some of its technology but did not acquire the company. Recently, the popularity of code-generation startups has declined, facing competition from large models like Anthropic and Google. Windsurf will be taken over by its former executives and will continue to operate independently.

Meitu launches RoboNeo, an AI tool for image editing, brand design, and web creation via natural language commands. It automates tasks like wedding photo retouching, brand kits, and e-commerce content, reducing visual production barriers for SMEs. Initial tests show rapid multi-format output generation within 5 minutes, though lighting details need refinement.....

Google released Gemini, the top embedding model with 68.37 MTEB score, surpassing OpenAI. Based on Transformer, it supports multilingual tasks at $0.15/M tokens, boosting AI applications like search.....