AI, AGI, and the End of Coding

The future of AI, world's cheapest humanoid, an open-source notebook, and more...

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Today, we've got the world's cheapest humanoid robot, AI agents you can build by just typing what you want, an intelligent notebook, and Marc Andreessen and Amjad Masad debating whether “good enough” AI is blocking the path to AGI.

On this day in AI history…

Micron Technology acquired FWDNXT to create a comprehensive AI development platform combining memory and compute for edge AI applications. The move represented an early push to optimize hardware specifically for AI workloads at the edge, rather than just in data centers.

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The Latest Developments in AI

YouTube released likeness-detection technology letting verified creators remove AI-generated content featuring their likeness through smartphone-based QR code verification. The tool combats unauthorized endorsements and misinformation while aligning with legislation like the NO FAKES Act.

Noetix Robotics unveiled Bumi, the world's most affordable humanoid robot. It stands 3.1 feet tall, can operate for one to two hours on a 48V battery, walks and dances, and aims to democratize robotics technology for wider adoption in STEM education and home automation.

OpenAI acquired Software Applications Inc., the creators of Sky, an AI natural language interface for Mac. The tool enhances Mac efficiency by working across applications and competing with Siri, expanding OpenAI into everyday consumer technology while sparking privacy questions.

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AI Tools of the Day

  1. 🐶 Datadog's latest ebook gives you practical strategies to overcome the real challenges of deploying LLM apps at scale.

  2. 💻 Shakespeare builds complete websites from prompts with decentralized architecture that stores files locally.

  3. 🎤 Fish Audio generates expressive AI voices with emotion control and voice cloning for video voiceovers, audiobooks, and more.

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Deta Surf is an intelligent notebook that brings your files and the web directly into your stream of thought.

It's designed to help you generate personal notes from media, make sense of hours of YouTube videos, hundred-page PDFs, foreign languages, and scientific diagrams, all without leaving your notes. You get summaries and deep dives in one place, with less scrolling, typing, and copying than your browser. The cool part? Your data is stored locally on your device, the core source code is open on GitHub, and you can integrate with LLMs of your choice or run local models. 📓✨

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Open Source Finds

From the Source

📦 OmniBox is a cross-platform AI knowledge hub that saves webpages, parses files, and enables Q&A and writing based on Internet and local databases.

🎬 Krea Realtime 14B is a video generation model that produces real-time video at 11 fps on a single GPU with mid-stream prompt editing.

🔍 Tongyi DeepResearch is a 30.5B parameter agentic LLM, designed for long-horizon information-seeking tasks with SOTA performance.

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AI Finds

Beyond the Feed

A BBC and EBU study reveals AI assistants misrepresent news 45% of the time, with Gemini worst at 76% significant errors.

Claude uses 6D curved geometry to count characters and detect line boundaries, but symbols like “@” hijack attention mechanisms and break spatial perception.

Marc Andreessen and Amjad Masad discuss whether “good enough” AI might block progress toward AGI, how RL unlocked reasoning in models, and if coding will disappear.

Chip Huyen from Nvidia explains why fine-tuning should be your last resort, data quality beats database choice, and most AI problems are actually UX issues.

While many rush to create new realities with AI video tools, creative director Matan Cohen Grumi is focused on reimagining the one we're already living in.

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