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This category contains top stories from our NewBits Digest newsletter from the ai frontier.


🧠 Seemingly Conscious AI: Microsoft AI CEO Warns of Societal Risk
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has published an essay warning that AI systems mimicking consciousness—what he calls Seemingly...

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Aug 242 min read


⚖️ Florida Bar AI Rules: Guardrails for Legal Practice
Artificial intelligence is racing ahead — and Florida Bar leaders are working just as quickly to balance its promise with its risks. At a...

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Aug 163 min read


☄️ Perplexity Comet Browser: First Look at Chrome’s AI Rival
The new perplexity comet browser is positioning itself as a streamlined alternative to Chrome, offering an appealing mix of speed,...

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Aug 162 min read


🧠 Meta TRIBE Brain Modeling Breakthrough
Meta’s FAIR team just unveiled TRIBE — a 1B-parameter neural network that can predict how the human brain responds to movies. The system...

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Aug 162 min read


🔥 Musk vs Altman Showdown: App Store Drama
The drama dialed up on X after Elon Musk announced that xAI is threatening to sue Apple over allegedly favoring OpenAI in the App Store...

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Aug 162 min read


💸 Perplexity Chrome Bid: $34.5B Play for Google’s Browser
In a move straight out of left field, AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited perplexity chrome bid worth $34.5B for Google’s...

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Aug 162 min read


🚨 Apple AI Smart Home Gambit
Bloomberg just dropped a bombshell: 🍏 Apple is finally making a serious push into the Apple AI smart home space. Between 2026–2027,...

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Aug 162 min read


🦷 Smarter Thinking, Not Just Faster Thinking in Dentistry AI at UF
Dentistry AI as a Catalyst for Critical Thinking in Dental Education At the University of Florida College of Dentistry (UFCD), artificial...

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Aug 104 min read


🌍 From Automation to Autonomy: The Agentic AI Revolution
Agentic AI Revolution: Moving Beyond Automation into True Autonomy We are in the midst of a Copernican shift in enterprise intelligence....

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Aug 103 min read


🍏 Apple AI Play: From Laggard to Leader?
Apple AI Acceleration via Acquisition Apple (AAPL) has long trailed in the AI race, lagging behind Android competitors. But a recent hint...

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Aug 102 min read


🎥 xAI Launches Grok Imagine — Fast, Playful AI Video & Image Generation
Grok Imagine: AI-Powered Video and Image Creation on X Elon Musk’s xAI has officially rolled out Grok Imagine to all SuperGrok and...

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Aug 102 min read


🪄 Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 3 — Worlds from Words, in Real Time
🌐 Genie 3: Real‑Time World Generation from Text Google DeepMind has unveiled Genie 3, a general‑purpose world model that can generate...

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Aug 102 min read


🚀 OpenAI Launches GPT-5 — Retires All Previous Models
GPT-5: OpenAI’s New Era in AI Models A new era begins. OpenAI has officially released its GPT-5 model family, replacing GPT-4o, 4.1, 4.5,...

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Aug 102 min read


🎓 UCF Institute for Artificial Intelligence Launches to Advance Florida’s Tech Leadership
The UCF Institute for Artificial Intelligence has officially launched, marking a major milestone for the University of Central Florida as...

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Aug 32 min read


💸 The AI Arms Race 2025: Big Tech’s $400 Billion Spending Surge
2025 is shaping up to be the year when spending big on AI became table stakes. In the unfolding AI arms race 2025, the four tech...

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Aug 32 min read


🧭 Microsoft Edge Copilot Mode Turns the Browser into an Intelligent Assistant
Microsoft has officially activated Microsoft Edge Copilot Mode, transforming its browser into a proactive AI-powered assistant. This...

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Aug 32 min read


🌏 GLM-4.5 Agentic AI Model from Z.ai Launches as Open-Source Frontier Challenger
Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI, one of China’s leading AI labs) has launched the GLM-4.5 agentic AI model, a powerful open-source release aimed...

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Aug 32 min read


📸 FLUX.1 Krea Image Model Tackles the “AI Look” with Open-Weight Photorealism
Black Forest Labs and Krea have released the FLUX.1 Krea image model, a new open-weight AI model designed to eliminate the visual...

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Aug 32 min read


🧠 Zuckerberg’s AI Vision: Meta’s Personal Superintelligence Over Automation
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a bold new direction for the company’s AI strategy. Instead of competing to automate everything,...

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Aug 32 min read


🤖 Miami Startup Avatar Buddy Rebrands AI with a Human Touch
Miami startup Avatar Buddy has rebranded with a bold new thesis: AI isn’t a subscription—it’s a teammate. Founded by long-time local...

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Jul 262 min read
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