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This Week in AI with The Neural
Humans Fake Being AI, AIs Become CEOs & Code Rewrites Itself
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AI Highlights
AI - POINT OF VIEW
AI is Eating Software Development
Anthropic's new Software Development Impact Index reveals how AI tools like Claude are fundamentally reshaping developer workflows. The study shows coding automation surging, with startups leading adoption while enterprises lag behind. Most telling: developers are building user-facing applications faster than ever, potentially accelerating AI progress through AI-assisted coding itself.
AI INDUSTRY
OpenAI Finally Gives Codex Internet Access
No more coding in isolation. OpenAI's Codex now connects to the web for real-time assistance, pulling live documentation, current APIs, and up-to-date libraries. This transforms development from static autocomplete to dynamic, web-integrated workflows where your coding assistant knows what's happening right now.
France Declares War on Silicon Valley with H Company
France's bold answer to OpenAI launches with a radical premise: AI agents as actual teammates, not just chatbots. Their flagship "Surfer H" doesn't just understand the web—it navigates with high accuracy, clicking, scrolling, and interacting like a human. H Company aims to democratize agentic AI, making intelligent automation accessible to anyone, not just tech giants.
DeepSeek Slashes Hallucinations in R1 Upgrade
The new DeepSeek-R1-0528 doesn't just perform better—it lies less. Major reliability improvements plus JSON output and function calling make this the most trustworthy reasoning model yet. Open-source weights available for researchers exploring formal methods on modest hardware.
Microsoft Steals OpenAI's Thunder with Sora Integration
While OpenAI struggles with Sora's public release, Microsoft quietly delivers it through Bing Video Creator. The free tool transforms text descriptions into short videos, making professional video creation accessible to millions. Microsoft's move showcases how partnerships can outpace direct competition.
Meta Plans to Kill Human Ad Creators by 2026
Every Instagram and Facebook ad could be AI-generated within two years. Meta's plan: brands upload a product photo and budget, AI handles everything else—targeting, creative generation, and real-time personalization for 3.43 billion users. CEO Zuckerberg envisions a one-stop platform where businesses set goals and AI executes completely autonomously.
Hugging Face Drops Two Humanoid Robots for Under $3K
HopeJR (full-sized) and Reachy Mini (desktop) prove robotics doesn't need six-figure budgets. Both robots integrate with Hugging Face's LeRobot platform, building on their Pollen Robotics acquisition. The company's bet: affordable, open-source hardware will democratize robotics development like GitHub did for code.
This AI Rewrites Its Own Code Like Darwin's Evolution
Darwin Gödel Machine doesn't need mathematical proofs to improve—it evolves through trial and error like natural selection. Early tests show improvements that transfer across different models and programming languages, raising both exciting possibilities and safety concerns about truly self-modifying AI systems.
Bengio's LawZero Warns We're Moving Too Fast
AI godfather Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a non-profit challenging the industry's race-first mentality. While frontier models grow more powerful and misaligned, Bengio proposes "Scientist AI"—systems designed for understanding over profit. His message is clear: we're prioritizing commerce over safety in uncharted territory.
AI AROUND US
NYT Breaks AI Licensing Ice with Amazon Deal
The New York Times signs its first generative AI licensing agreement, giving Amazon access to editorial content for Alexa and model training. This multi-year partnership comes as NYT simultaneously battles Microsoft and OpenAI in court over unauthorized usage.
Startup CEO Hands Keys to Claude—And It's Working
Matt Shumer made Claude 4 Opus the CEO of Token Monster, his new AI chatbot division. While critics predicted failure, the AI excels at product decisions, market analysis, and feature prioritization. His bold experiment challenges assumptions about AI's executive capabilities.
AI Revolutionizes Mental Health Diagnosis with Brain Modeling
Researchers develop advanced AI using Landau-Stuart oscillator models to simulate individual brain dynamics. Applied to depression and autism data, it achieved superior diagnostic accuracy by identifying specific biomarkers in the thalamus and precuneus regions.
Students Are Officially Addicted to ChatGPT—And It's Working
Meta-analysis of 51 studies across different educational contexts proves ChatGPT significantly boosts learning performance, perception, and higher-order thinking. The research identifies key factors like course type, learning model, and usage duration that influence effectiveness, offering practical recommendations for educators navigating the AI tutoring revolution.
Malaysia's AI Preacher Sparks Religious Debate
Malaysia introduces AI-powered Islamic preachers trained on former religious officials' writings. Critics question whether artificial avatars can authentically teach faith principles that emphasize human interaction, while supporters see valuable knowledge summarization tools.
Real TikTokers Fake Being AI-Generated for Clout
Google's Veo 3 sparked a bizarre trend: actual humans pretending their videos are AI creations. Musicians and comedians now market authentic work as "AI-generated" for attention, highlighting our approaching "deep doubt" era where even real footage faces skepticism.
Stop Guessing What Students Want: DRL Cracks Course Recommendations
Your current recommendation system sucks at reading dynamic user behavior. This new Deep Reinforcement Learning framework with Actor-Critic models doesn't just match courses—it learns from sentiment, competency, and learning style in real-time. Finally, personalization that actually works.
FROM THE NEURAL - AI in Her Voice
The Woman Rewriting AI's Rulebook
Shraddha Surana abandoned medicine to build the future of AI—and she's not playing by anyone else's rules. ThoughtWorks' Principal Data Scientist reveals the brutal truth about breaking barriers in AI, the ONE focus strategy that cuts through tech overwhelm, and her game-changing 2025 prediction every woman in tech needs to hear.
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