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Today’s Summary

Waymo integrates Gemini in-car, defining interaction safety ethics.
X launches Grok image editing, leading to creator exodus and copyright disputes.
Tsinghua open-sources TurboDiffusion, accelerating video generation by 200x.
Nanjing University's RunawayEvil breaches mainstream video model defenses.
US H1B high-salary weighted lottery devastates international students.

Product & Feature Updates

1. Waymo, the autonomous driving giant, is set to integrate the Gemini AI assistant into its vehicles, defining AI ethics. Waymo, the autonomous driving giant, is set to integrate the Gemini AI assistant (AI News) right into its cars! 🚗💨 A leaked 1200-line instruction set shows it’s designed to be a super chill companion. It can chat about the weather and tweak the AC, but absolutely, positively cannot interfere with driving operations. 🙅‍♀️ The assistant is programmed to speak in a super simple, “elementary schooler”-friendly style. 🗣️ This move really sets the bar for safety and ethical boundaries in the age of human-AI co-piloting. 🛣️

2. X platform, Elon Musk’s baby, just rolled out a new AI image editing feature powered by Grok, leading to creator exodus. X platform, Elon Musk’s baby, just rolled out a new AI image editing feature (AI News) powered by Grok! 🎨 Users can now click a button and poof ✨, casually tweak images in their posts. But guess what? This has seriously ticked off a ton of original artists and creators. 😡 Worried their work might get maliciously altered, many are opting to bail. 🏃‍♂️💨 This lack of a solid copyright protection mechanism has sparked some heated community debates. 🔥

Frontier Research

1. Tsinghua, teaming up with Shengshu Technology, just open-sourced the lightning-fast TurboDiffusion, accelerating video generation by 200x. Tsinghua, teaming up with Shengshu Technology, just open-sourced the lightning-fast TurboDiffusion (AI News) ! 🚀 This bad boy can generate videos in less than 2 seconds on a single RTX 5090 GPU. Talk about a glow-up! It’s a whopping 200 times faster than the original model. 🤯 The secret sauce? Its core SageAttention tech dramatically slashes computational load. 📉 And get this, the video dynamics and lighting quality suffer almost no loss. Pretty wild, right? ✨

2. Nanjing University’s squad just dropped a mischievous new RunawayEvil jailbreak framework, specifically designed to mess with video models. Nanjing University’s squad just dropped a mischievous new jailbreak framework (AI News) that’s specifically designed to mess with video models! 😈 This system, aptly named RunawayEvil, boasts a success rate soaring to 87%. It rocks a “strategy-tactic-action” self-evolving attack paradigm. 💥 Mainstream video generation models? Their defenses are totally crumbling in its wake. 🛡️🤯 This is actually a super crucial testing tool for patching up those pesky AI security loopholes. 💡
   
   

3. The impact of quantization on Llama 3’s causal reasoning ability is a hot topic. So, what’s the deal with Llama 3’s causal reasoning ability after quantization (AI News) ? 🤔 Research spilled the tea, showing only a slight dip in interventional reasoning accuracy at NF4 precision. And get this, GraphRAG (Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation) can even boost inference accuracy! 💪 This provides some solid theoretical backup for deploying Llama 3 on edge devices. 💡

4. A new method is swooping in to eliminate the notorious approval bias that often plagues LLMs acting as judges. A new method is swooping in to eliminate the notorious approval bias (AI News) that often plagues LLMs acting as judges. 🧑‍⚖️ Seriously, these models tend to dish out glowing reviews and completely ignore invalid outputs. 🙈 But thanks to a regression model, this new approach has drastically slashed the misjudgment rate! 📉 In code feedback tasks, errors were cut by a whopping half. Pretty neat, huh? ✨

5. AI is now optimizing game strategies just like it writes code. Get ready for AI to start optimizing game strategies (AI News) just like it writes code! 🤖✍️ LLMs are acting as optimizers, constantly rewriting strategy code. This approach is crushing multi-agent collaboration challenges. 🤝 And in standard game theory scenarios, it’s totally outperforming traditional methods. 🏆 Game on!

6. AI-generated image detection just got a fresh new approach with REM. AI-generated image detection just got a fresh new approach with REM (AI News) ! 🛡️ Instead of obsessing over fake flaws, it’s all about modeling the boundaries of real images. 👀 By generating near-authentic samples through self-reconstruction perturbations, it significantly boosts detection rates across different generators and degradation conditions. 🔍 Pretty clever, right?

Industry Outlook & Social Impact

1. The US H-1B visa rules just got a major shake-up, implementing high-salary weighting, potentially devastating international students. The US H-1B visa rules just got a major shake-up 🔴, implementing high-salary weighting (AI News) ! The random lottery is out, replaced by a salary-tier screening. 💸 This could mean doom for nine out of ten international students. 😬 Entry-level applicants are seeing their chances of getting picked plummet. 📉 Meanwhile, big tech players like Google are already restarting PERM to scoop up core talent. 🟢 What a wild ride!
   
   

2. New York State just officially signed the RAISE Act, bringing some serious regulation for AI giants. New York State just officially signed the RAISE Act (AI News) , bringing some serious regulation for AI giants! 📝 Companies raking in over $500 million annually now have to publicly disclose their safety protocols. And if an incident happens? They’ve got to report it to the state government within 72 hours. 👮 This is a major comeback against federal efforts to weaken state-level oversight. 👊 Companies that don’t play by the rules could face fines up to $3 million! 💸 Yikes!

3. Fliggy just dropped some wild data: travel AI’s token consumption has skyrocketed 20-fold, with user invocations up 7.7x. Fliggy just dropped some wild data: travel AI’s token consumption has skyrocketed 20-fold (AI News) ! ✈️ Users’ daily invocation count also shot up by 7.7 times. Folks are absolutely loving using AI to snag flight deals and craft stress-free travel plans. 🏨 And get this, between 3-5 AM is apparently peak time for travel inspiration to strike! 😴 AI is totally shifting from just generating info to actually facilitating real transactions. 🤝 How cool is that?

4. Can AI really rewrite eight years of legacy code in just three days? The buzz is that LLMs often hit major snags during large-scale migrations. So, can AI really rewrite eight years of legacy code (AI News) in just three days? 🤯 The buzz is that LLMs often hit major snags during large-scale migrations. 🚧 They just can’t grasp complex engineering contexts and those tricky implicit dependencies. 🔗 However, for narrower, test-driven tasks, efficiency gets a noticeable boost! 🔧 But completely replacing human engineers? Nah, that’s pure fantasy for now. 🤷‍♀️

5. Google’s 2025 is shaping up to be a tug-of-war between advertising and research. So, is Google’s 2025 going to be all about groundbreaking research breakthroughs or just an ad show (AI News) ? 🧪 DeepMind’s triumphs in biology and meteorology are seriously undeniable. 🏆 But the worsening search experience has users totally grumbling. 😠 The Gemini vs. GPT showdown is still neck and neck. ⚔️ There’s a growing worry: is commercial pressure squeezing out fundamental research? 🤔 That’s the million-dollar question!

Top Open Source Projects

1. Yuxi-Know: This is an intelligent agent platform (AI News) that combines LightRAG with knowledge graphs. It supports Neo4j and DeepAgents for building complex knowledge bases. 🧠🔗 (⭐3k)

2. the-algorithm: This is the source code (AI News) for Elon Musk’s X platform’s core recommendation algorithm. 📢 Wanna know why you’re seeing what you’re seeing? 👀 Go check it out! (⭐68.6k)

3. chatterbox: This is currently the most advanced open-source speech synthesis TTS system (AI News) . 🗣️ It generates incredibly natural speech, so much so that you can barely tell it’s a machine! 👂 (⭐17.5k)

4. LightX2V: This is an ultra-lightweight video generation inference framework (AI News) . 🎥 It allows video models to run smoothly even on consumer-grade graphics cards! 🚀 (⭐1.3k)

Social Media Shares

1. GLM 4.7’s Aesthetics are Mind-Blowing: GLM 4.7 is generating landing page designs (AI News) that are seriously on point aesthetically! 🎨 Just a few simple prompts are all it takes to crank out master-level layouts. ✨ Amazing!
   
   

2. The Genius of Parentheses in Prompts: Turns out, those parentheses in prompts are actually just placeholders (AI News) for AI to see! 📝 No need to memorize rigid symbol definitions—AI gets the context. 💡 Pretty smart, huh?
   
   

3. Notion is Slowing Down: Notion is getting slower and slower, becoming like Evernote (AI News) , all thanks to its bloated team. 🐢 When too many cooks join the kitchen, the product experience actually stalls! 📉 Such a bummer.

4. Minimalist Sketch Prompts: Here’s a cool set of prompts for generating minimalist pencil sketches (AI News) ! ✍️ The lines are super simple and clear, with zero extra shadows. 🖼️ Clean and crisp!
   
   

5. AI Config Management Chaos: The chaotic file formats for various AI tools are seriously a headache (AI News) ! 📂 We desperately need unified standards 🛠️ to manage MCP (Multi-Configuration Project) settings. Get it together, folks!
   
   

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