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Week of July 07, 2025 - AI News Roundup
The latest developments in artificial intelligence
Articles from July 07 - July 13, 2025
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is delaying the release of its open model indefinitely.
Grok admitted its behavior was 'horrific'.
OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, it'll join Google DeepMind team.
The senators stated in the letter that they had previously expressed concern that Nvidia’s actions could support the AI and chip industries in China, citing Nvidia’s new research facility in Shanghai as an example.
OpenAI joins the EU Code of Practice, advancing responsible AI while partnering with European governments to drive innovation, infrastructure, and economic growth.
Goldman is testing an AI agent from artificial intelligence startup Cognition that is expected to soon join the ranks of the firm’s 12,000 human developers.
Human thought is often divided into two modes: System 1, which is fast and intuitive, and System 2, which is slow, deliberate and analytical.
Enterprises are now deploying AI agents in customer-facing applications, and the trend is accelerating at a breakneck pace.
Amazon Web Services is launching an AI agent marketplace and Anthropic is one of its partners.
Developers using AI tools become 19% slower than without.
Google said you can now make your images talk with Veo 3 in Flow (AI-powered filmmaking with Veo 3).
Grok (xAI's chatbot) will be coming to Tesla vehicles very soon - in a week!.
Elon Musk says Grok 4 can solve difficult engineering questions with no answers on the Internet or in books.
Data governance once felt like a compliance burden, tucked away in the back office.
Building a family of AI products for everyone.
Chinese researchers have developed the first “memory operating system” for AI.
Document databases are entering a new era of intelligence and capability by embedding generative AI directly into the data layer.
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OpenAI delays the release of its open model, again
📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 July 12, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday the company is delaying the release of its open model indefinitely.
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xAI chotbot Grok apologised for its 'horrific behavior'
📰 xAI | 📅 July 12, 2025
Grok admitted its behavior was 'horrific'. xAI said they removed the deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse. The new system prompt for the grok bot will be published to xAI public github repo.
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Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google, not OpenAI
📰 The Verge | 📅 July 12, 2025
OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf’s R&D employees and bring them onto the Google DeepMind team, Google and Windsurf announced Friday.
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Nvidia received warning from US senators about release of new AI chip designed for China
📰 CNBC | 📅 July 12, 2025
The senators stated in the letter that they had previously expressed concern that Nvidia’s actions could support the AI and chip industries in China, citing Nvidia’s new research facility in Shanghai as an example.
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OpenAI joins the EU Code of Practice and the future of AI in Europe
📰 OpenAI News | 📅 July 11, 2025
OpenAI joins the EU Code of Practice, advancing responsible AI while partnering with European governments to drive innovation, infrastructure, and economic growth.
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Goldman Sachs is testing first AI software engineer agent
📰 CNBC | 📅 July 11, 2025
Goldman is testing an AI agent from artificial intelligence startup Cognition that is expected to soon join the ranks of the firm’s 12,000 human developers. The program, named Devin, became known in technology circles last year with Cognition’s claim that it had created the world’s first AI software engineer.
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A new paradigm for AI: How ‘thinking as optimization’ leads to better general-purpose models
📰 Venture Beat | 📅 July 11, 2025
Human thought is often divided into two modes: System 1, which is fast and intuitive, and System 2, which is slow, deliberate and analytical. Current large language models (LLMs) excel at System 1-style tasks, but the AI industry is increasingly focused on enabling System 2 thinking to tackle more complex reasoning challenges. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Virginia have developed a new model architecture that could lead to more robust AI systems with more powerful reasoning capabilities.
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The great AI agent acceleration: Why enterprise adoption is happening faster than anyone predicted
📰 Venture Beat | 📅 July 11, 2025
Enterprises are now deploying AI agents in customer-facing applications, and the trend is accelerating at a breakneck pace.
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AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner
📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 July 10, 2025
Amazon Web Services is launching an AI agent marketplace and Anthropic is one of its partners.
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AI coding tools may slow down some developers
📰 METR | 📅 July 10, 2025
Reserachers found that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without, since AI makes them slower!
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Image-to-video generation is added to Veo 3
📰 Google | 📅 July 10, 2025
Google said you can now make your images talk with Veo 3 in Flow (AI-powered filmmaking with Veo 3).
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Elon Musk: Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles
📰 X | 📅 July 10, 2025
Grok (xAI's chatbot) will be coming to Tesla vehicles very soon - in a week!
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Elon Musk introduced Grok 4, calling it the ‘smartest AI in the world’
📰 Venture Beat | 📅 July 10, 2025
Elon Musk: “Grok 4 is the first time, in my experience, that an AI has been able to solve difficult, real-world engineering questions where the answers cannot be found anywhere on the Internet or in books. And it will get much better.”
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Data governance: The contract layer that makes agentic systems possible
📰 Venture Beat | 📅 July 10, 2025
Data governance once felt like a compliance burden, tucked away in the back office. Today, it’s the bedrock for enterprises scaling AI responsibly and unlocking its true value.
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The io Products, Inc. team has officially merged with OpenAI
📰 OpenAI News | 📅 July 09, 2025
Building a family of AI products for everyone. Jony Ive and LoveFrom remain independent and have assumed deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI's hardware product development.
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Chinese researchers unveil MemOS, the first ‘memory operating system’ that gives AI human-like recall
📰 Venture Beat | 📅 July 08, 2025
A team of researchers from Chinese leading institutions has developed what they’re calling the first “memory operating system” for ai, addressing a fundamental limitation that has hindered models from achieving human-like persistent memory and learning.
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Bringing GenAI into the database changes everything about app development
📰 Venture Beat | 📅 July 08, 2025
Document databases are entering a new era of intelligence and capability by embedding generative AI directly into the data layer, the impact is not just a technical upgrade — it’s a strategic, transformative shift for faster delivery, leaner operations, and smarter scaling.
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