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September 25, 2025
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New AI system could accelerate clinical research (5 minutes read)
MultiverSeg AI

MIT’s MultiverSeg lets users outline organs in medical images with scribble clicks, learning from prior annotations to predict masks without further input. It surpasses existing methods, hitting about 90 % accuracy after one or two examples, supporting contexts and 3‑D applications.

Products & Industry Moves 🚀

Meta FAIR Releases 32‑Billion Parameter Code World Model LLM to Boost Code Generation Research (3 minutes read)
CodeGeneration LLM MetaFAIR

Meta FAIR unveiled the 32‑billion‑parameter Code World Model, an open‑weight transformer combining code generation with real‑world execution. Trained through pre‑training, interpreter‑trace injection, instruction fine‑tuning, and reinforcement learning, it achieves impressive benchmarks and supports reproducible research.

Build a Data Science Workflow with Machine Learning, Interpretability, and Gemini AI. (2 minutes read)
MachineLearning GeminiAI

Using a diabetes dataset, the tutorial scales data, trains a gradient‑boosting model, and evaluates it with residual plots and RMSE. It calculates permutation importance, plots partial dependence, then leverages Gemini AI to query, report JSON, critique risks, and suggest experiments.

Vision-RAG vs Text-RAG: A Technical Comparison for Enterprise Search (5 minutes read)
RAG PDF OCR

Text‑RAG parses PDFs into OCR text, losing table layout and figures; Vision‑RAG retains whole‑page images, embedding them with models like ColPali, yielding 25‑39% performance boosts, and is preferred for graphic‑rich documents, whereas Text‑RAG suits low‑cost, text‑only cases.

Google launches an AI-powered mood board app, Mixboard
GraphQL Meta

Tech giants are rolling out new products and services, including Meta's AI-powered dating assistant Amanda Silberling and Google's plan to slash subscriptions. Other companies like Amazon and Facebook are updating their streaming services, while OpenAI publishes research on deceptive AI models.

A Startup Used AI to Make a Psychedelic Without the Trip (5 minutes read)
AI MachineLearning

Mindstate Design Labs has created MSD-001, a psychedelic-like drug developed with AI technology, which induces specific mental states without hallucinations, and showed promise in Phase I trial results, potentially treating mood disorders, compulsive disorders, and phobias.

Transforming the manufacturing industry with ChatGPT
ChatGPT Manufacturing

ENEOS Materials implemented ChatGPT Enterprise, speeding research, improving plant safety, and streamlining HR workflows. Over 80% of employees report better daily tasks, strengthening the firm’s competitive edge in the manufacturing sector.

Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max: Production-Ready Thinking Mode, 1T+ Parameters, and Day-One Coding/Agentic Bench Signals (3 minutes read)
Qwen3-Max Alibaba

Alibaba's Qwen3-Max is a large-scale language model with over 1 trillion parameters, leveraging expert design and sparse activation per token, achieving strong performance in coding, agentic control, and math benchmarks, marking Alibaba's largest and most capable model to date.

Google is starting to launch real-time AI voice search (1 minutes read)
Google AI

Google's Search Live feature is now available to everyone in the US, allowing users to search through real-time conversations with an AI assistant via the Google app or Lens app, responding to queries and sharing relevant web links.

Microsoft embraces OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve Microsoft 365 apps (2 minutes read)
OpenAI Claude

Microsoft is integrating Anthropic's Claude models into its Microsoft 365 Copilot platform, expanding model options and giving customers greater flexibility for Researcher and Studio, while following recent announcements favoring Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code and other tools.

SAP and OpenAI partner to launch sovereign ‘OpenAI for Germany’
OpenAI SAP

SAP and OpenAI have launched "OpenAI for Germany", a collaborative initiative aiming to introduce secure AI solutions to Germany's public sector by 2026, promoting a trusted and transparent AI ecosystem through safe and efficient public services enabled by AI technology.

Research & Technology 🔬

AfriMed-QA: Benchmarking large language models for global health
GenerativeAI MachineLearning

Generative AI enables machines to create original content such as images, music, and text based on learned patterns, using complex algorithms to produce unique outputs indistinguishable from human creations, with applications in art, design, marketing, and media production.

Risks & Criticism ⚠️

The $7 Trillion Delusion: Was Sam Altman the First Real Case of ChatGPT Psychosis? (17 minutes read)
OpenAI ChatGPT

Sam Altman's decision to privately pitch a $7 trillion AI initiative and publicly announce it on Twitter may have been driven by his psychological dependence on OpenAI, raising concerns about "ChatGPT Psychosis" and systemic risk when leaders become trapped in their delusions.

FreeGF AI NSFW Chatbot: My Unfiltered Thoughts (6 minutes read)
FreeGF AI

The FreeGF AI Chat user guide provides step-by-step instructions on using the chatbot's features, including creating characters and "uncensored" conversations, while emphasizing responsible use and caution with terms of service and privacy policy.

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