Trump released a 28-page AI Action Plan on July 23 that outlines over 90 federal policy actions to counter China and maintain American AI dominance.
The plan focuses on three pillars: accelerating innovation through deregulation, building AI infrastructure with private sector partnerships, and leading international AI diplomacy.
The administration directs federal agencies to remove regulatory barriers that hinder AI development and threatens to limit funding to states with restrictive AI laws.
👋 Meta’s new wristband lets you type and click without touching anything
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Meta's prototype wristband reads electrical signals from forearm muscles to control computers through hand gestures and finger movements.
The device uses electromyography and artificial intelligence trained on data from 10,000 people to detect movement intentions before they happen.
Meta plans to integrate this technology into products within the next few years, starting with smart glasses demonstrations last fall.
📉 Tesla reports steepest revenue decline in a decade
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Tesla reported a 12% revenue decline to $22.5 billion in the April-June quarter, marking the steepest drop in over a decade.
The company faces strong competition from cheaper electric vehicles and backlash against CEO Elon Musk's political views affecting sales performance.
Tesla started production of a more affordable model and expects volume production in the second half of the year.
🏛️ Google AI helps restore ancient Roman inscriptions
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Google DeepMind released Aeneas, an AI model that analyzes text and images to restore damaged Latin inscriptions and predict their origin.
The model helped 23 historians boost confidence by 23% and find relevant parallels in 15 minutes instead of days of manual searching.
Aeneas can attribute inscriptions to Roman provinces with 72% accuracy and date texts within 13 years using a dataset of 176,000 inscriptions.
🫠 FDA's AI tool used for drug approvals generates fake studies
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The FDA's AI assistant Elsa fabricates non-existent drug studies and creates extra work for reviewers who must constantly double-check its unreliable outputs.
FDA employees report that Elsa "hallucinates confidently" and cannot access confidential industry submissions needed for reviewing drug safety and efficacy data.
The AI tool's failures reflect a broader industry pattern where large language models generate false information at higher rates despite technological advances.
📡 T-Mobile launches Starlink satellite texting service nationwide
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T-Mobile launched T-Satellite today, a $10 monthly Starlink-based texting service that works in wireless dead zones across America.
Unlike other satellite services, T-Satellite connects automatically without pointing your phone at specific satellites or needing special hardware.
The service supports MMS on Android phones and allows anyone to sign up, even customers using other carriers.
China plans network to sell surplus computing power in crackdown on data centre glut
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Google’s CEO says ‘AI is positively impacting every part of the business’
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Google’s new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes
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Future iPhones and Android phones are getting a big wireless charging upgrade
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AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today
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Trump briefly considered breaking up Nvidia to spur competition, then backed off
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Sony looking to divest cellular chipset division
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AMD CEO Lisa Su says US-made TSMC chips cost up to 20% more; but they're worth it
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Walmart bets on AI super agents to boost e-commerce growth
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$1 billion of NVIDIA AI chips were reportedly sold in China despite US bans
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How do hackers get passwords? Sometimes, they just ask.
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Like Wikipedia, Mastodon now shows a top banner urging you to donate to keep it alive
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Instagram blocks 135K accounts for preying on kids, adds safety features
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GitHub Spark brings full‑stack app building to plain English
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Yet another automaker reaffirms no plans to support Apple’s CarPlay Ultra
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WiX Toolset: a free software development kit that helps developers create Windows installer packages for their applications.
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Apache HTTP Server: a web server software that hosts websites and handles internet traffic requests from browsers and other clients.
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Vet: a command-line tool that downloads, inspects, and requires approval before executing remote scripts from curl commands.
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FastLanes File Format: a data storage format designed to efficiently compress and store columnar data for faster analytical processing.
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Transformers Without Normalization: researchers show that transformer neural networks can be trained effectively without layer normalization by using proper weight initialization and architectural modifications.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with Prompting: google's latest AI model can solve complex mathematical olympiad problems well enough to potentially earn a gold medal at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad when given appropriate prompting techniques.
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