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A dramatic acquisition has recently taken place in the AI coding field: Cognition acquired Windsurf company. Previously, this company had experienced a $2.4 billion reverse talent acquisition by Google and an unsuccessful $3 billion acquisition offer from OpenAI. Windsurf generates $82 million in annual revenue, has 350 enterprise clients, and tens of thousands of daily active users. After the acquisition, Cognition will integrate Windsurf's AI development environment with its own Devin coding assistant and regain access to the Claude AI model. This deal marks another significant move in the competition.

Amazon Prime Day hit a record $24.1B US sales (+30.3%), equal to 2 Black Fridays. AI shopping surged 3300%, appliances/office supplies grew strongly. Extended to 4 days, Day 3 sales jumped 165%. Influencers drove 20% sales with 10x higher conversion rates.....

Musk's AI chatbot Grok introduces a new virtual companion feature, including two character options: Ani, an anime character, and Rudy, a cartoon panda. Ani supports NSFW mode. This feature is currently released in a soft launch, requiring users to enable it manually, with plans to simplify the process in the future. Additionally, it was revealed that a new character named Chad is under development, and the NSFW content toggle for voice chat mode is already supported. This innovative feature highlights the potential of AI in personalized interaction and is expected to enhance Grok's market competitiveness.

Tesla's Musk unveils anime-style AI companions for xAI's Grok chatbot, including virtual characters like Ani and Bad Rudy. The feature supports voice interaction and is exclusive to $30/month SuperGrok subscribers. While popular among anime fans, it raises AI ethics concerns. Musk claims Grok4 outperforms ChatGPT, but transparency issues persist. This marks xAI's key commercialization effort.....

Meta may shift from open-source to closed-source AI, potentially abandoning its 'Behemoth' model due to poor performance. Despite claims of commitment to open-source, this move could challenge Zuckerberg's vision, impact AI competition, and disadvantage smaller firms reliant on open models, including China's AI strategy.....

Amazon AWS launches a new AI development tool called Kiro, focusing on the concept of specification-driven development. The tool is based on the open-source Code OSS platform and is compatible with the VS Code ecosystem. It uses AI collaboration to first generate requirement documents and system designs, then automatically generates code, test cases, and documentation, ensuring code quality. Kiro supports multimodal input and automated testing features. It is currently available for free preview, and a paid version will be released in the future. Its specification-driven development model has the potential to address maintenance challenges with AI-generated code, but the initial usage may be complex.

On July 15, Mita AI Search announced the completion of a new iteration of its 'Deep Research' module and its official public beta launch, becoming the first search service in China that is freely open to the public and features multi-turn reasoning chain visualization. The upgraded system adopts a segmented reinforcement learning strategy, breaking down the originally computationally intensive 'Deep Research' tasks into multiple sub-tasks, maintaining result accuracy while reducing operational costs to a level that allows for public free access. It performs particularly well in retrieving and reasoning with Chinese corpus.

CAMEL-AI partners with Google Gemini2.5Pro to develop automated data visualization solutions, leveraging Gemini's reasoning and OWL system for low-code analytics via natural language input.....

Meitu launches RoboNeo, an AI tool for image editing, brand design, and web creation via natural language commands. It automates tasks like wedding photo retouching, brand kits, and e-commerce content, reducing visual production barriers for SMEs. Initial tests show rapid multi-format output generation within 5 minutes, though lighting details need refinement.....

Liquid AI opensources the next-generation edge AI model LFM2, available in three versions with 350M to 1.2B parameters. The model features an innovative architecture, achieving twice the inference speed and three times the training efficiency on edge devices, supporting 32K long context processing. LFM2 performs exceptionally well in tasks such as instruction following, outperforming models of similar scale, making it particularly suitable for privacy-sensitive scenarios. Fully open-sourced through Hugging Face, this marks the first time a U.S. company has surpassed Chinese open-source models in the field of efficient small models. Liquid AI

The UN AI for Good Summit was held in Geneva, where Peng Jin from Ant Group shared China's achievements in AI security technology. Data shows that Ant Digital helped Southeast Asian banks reduce fake face attack rates from 10% to 4%, with an identification accuracy rate of 99.9%. Ant provides financial-grade identity authentication through the ZOLOZ platform, serving 25 countries, and has opened a dataset of 1.8 million fake samples to promote industry research. China's technological solutions are offering important references for global AI safety governance.

UK study: 67% of teens aged 9-17 view AI chatbots as 'friends', with 12% relying on them due to lack of real social connections. AI mimics human emotions, potentially blurring human-machine boundaries. Experts warn of psychological risks and urge regulations to protect youth mental health.....

AI's 'time travel' trend thrives as ChatGPT transforms childhood photos. TikTok's AI effect drew 170K users, but results vary: Musk's image was unrecognizable, Asian stars distorted, while Eddie Peng fared slightly better. Experts note AI predicts general trends, not individual changes, yet this playful tech sparks social media buzz.....

Goldman Sachs introduced AI coding assistant 'Devin' to boost efficiency, planning hundreds of deployments. The hybrid human-AI approach enhances productivity, though AI won't replace developers.....

The United Nations University research team developed two AI virtual characters - Amina, a Sudanese refugee, and Abdullah, a rebel fighter - to raise public awareness of the refugee crisis through dialogue. The project was experimentally conducted by an academic team and is not an official United Nations project. Although researchers envisioned using it for fundraising presentations, test users provided negative feedback, stating that real refugees can already speak for themselves. The relevant website is currently unavailable.

On July 11, PixVerse AI video creation platform, which has surpassed 60 million global users, announced a major feature upgrade — the addition of the 'Multi-Keyframe Generation' function in the Start-End Frame module. This marks a new stage in AI video creation, transitioning from the generation of single segments to narrative expression. Users can now upload up to 7 images as keyframes via the web version's start-end frame feature, and the AI will automatically analyze the semantic relationships between frames, intelligently building smooth action and scene transition paths. This technological breakthrough enables static images to be presented dynamically.

Meta and Berkeley developed StreamDiT for real-time AI video generation: 1) 16fps 512p on single GPU, 4B-param model creates 1-min videos with live edits; 2) Novel buffer enables parallel processing (2 frames/0.5s) with 8-step optimization; 3) Trained on 3K HD videos + 2.6M dataset; 4) Outperforms rivals in motion smoothness, 30B-param version shows quality potential; 5) Enables interactive video despite transition flaws.....

Meta acquires AI voice startup Play AI to enhance its voice synthesis tech, aligning with AI avatars and wearables. The move reflects Meta's AI push amid rising demand for voice interaction.....

Meta acquires the voice AI startup Play AI to enhance its voice technology capabilities in areas such as AI avatars and wearable devices. The Play AI team will join Meta as a whole, and their natural speech generation technology is highly compatible with multiple Meta AI projects. This is another important move by Meta in the AI field. Previously, it had recruited talent from OpenAI and partnered with Scale AI. The transaction amount was not disclosed.

Tesla launches Grok AI assistant for AMD Ryzen-equipped vehicles, requiring hardware confirmation via 2025.26 software update. Currently focuses on interaction, not vehicle control. AMD selected for superior computing power since 2021. Future expansion planned, incompatible with Intel-based models.....