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🐶 Gamgee Is Building Personalized Cancer Vaccines for Dogs The company was founded by Sydney entrepreneur Paul Conyngham, who turned to AI to design an mRNA vaccine for his own dog, Rosie, when she was dying of aggressive mast cell cancer. Back in 2024, vets gave her a couple of months. But thanks to Paul's persistence and the scientists he pulled in to make his idea real, Rosie is still alive today. Now Conyngham wants to make cancer vaccine technology available to everyone. The startup is accepting applications from owners of dogs with cancer for its first clinical trial.

🚀 Roscosmos Shares Eclipse Photos From the ISS Russia's space agency Roscosmos has published photos of the eclipse taken from the International Space Station. Cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov captured one of the year's most anticipated celestial events from an altitude of 400 kilometers.

🦇 Batman Makes People More Polite, Study Finds A 2025 experiment found people behave better when a superhero is nearby. A "pregnant" actress boarded a subway car. Normally, about 38% of passengers offered her a seat. But when a "hero" in a Batman costume boarded alongside her, that number nearly doubled to 67%. Oddly, 44% of those who gave up their seat in the Batman group said they never even noticed him. Researchers believe this points to a hidden "spillover" effect of attention in crowded public spaces. Do you give up your seat on public transport? ❤️ — Yes, always! 👀 — No, I need Batman...

🙂 Anthropic Adds Invisible Watermarks to Claude Answers Anthropic has begun embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks directly into text generated by its Claude AI models, a move driven by new transparency requirements under the EU AI Act. The company detailed the system in a support page published this month, confirming that Claude models launched on or after August 2, 2026 support machine-readable marking from launch. Should AI-generated content be labeled? ❤️ — Yes, absolutely! 🔥 — No, it's useless

🎓 Denmark Brings Back Oral Defense to Curb AI Cheating From this school year, Danish upper secondary students will have to defend their major written SSO assignment out loud. The paper is written at home, and until now it was graded on the text alone. Education Minister Magnus Heunicke announced the change. He says schools need to act now so that AI does not erode students' competences, their command of the subject and, not least, their ability to think for themselves. Should AI Be Banned in Schools? ❤️ — Yes, AI is replacing teachers 🔥 — No, students should be taught how to use AI

💬 OpenAI Makes GPT-5.6 Lun Free and Unlimited OpenAI has announced that GPT-5.6 Luna will become the default model for Free and Go-tier ChatGPT users, who will also receive unlimited text conversations. The rollout begins this week, while a new "Think" button is set to arrive during the week of August 10. OpenAI says ChatGPT now reaches 1 billion people each week. Do you have ChatGPT subscription? ❤️ — Yes, of course! 🔥 — Np, free is enough for me

🏄‍♂️ No, That's Not AI These are photos from the 10th World Dog Surfing Championships, which took place over the weekend in California. Fourteen dogs competed in groups based on size. Bradley "Shortboard" Cooper won the small-dog competition, while Rosie won the large-dog category (the two of them are pictured together in the first photo). The waves were so strong that the final competition between the winners of each category had to be canceled. But it seems the participants had a great time anyway.

⛔️ OpenAI Bans Accounts Linked to Cambodia Scam Network OpenAI has disrupted a Cambodia-based criminal network that used ChatGPT to support investment fraud, romance scams, gambling schemes, and fake law enforcement messages. The company reported the operation on July 31, saying it targeted people in several countries, including India. The investigation began after a tip from WhatsApp. OpenAI then banned a coordinated group of accounts believed to be operating from Poipet, in Banteay Meanchey province. The city has often been linked to online scam compounds and human trafficking.

💻 Anthropic Will Teach Claude to Design AI Chips Anthropic is looking for a researcher with chip design experience to work on RL training of AI for processor design. Essentially, they will have to pass their own expertise on to Claude. The AI will be trained to write code describing a chip's circuit, find flaws in it, and pick the optimal physical layout of the die. 💡 This will likely come in handy for the startup as it builds its own AI accelerator. In June, Clive Chan, one of the leading AI chip engineers, left OpenAI for Anthropic. The company has also recently posted a Silicon Engineer opening. An in-house Anthropic team will handle the entire processor design chain, including design and testing—and Claude will be directly involved in the process. 💰 In July, Anthropic was in talks with Samsung about manufacturing a custom chip on a 2-nanometer process and asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own semiconductors. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company had signed deals with both Korean firms, without providing further details. @hiaimediaen

⚡️ Lightning Kills Footballer During Match in Thailand A lightning strike killed 24-year-old Yala footballer Sofwan Awae during a match in Thailand's Narathiwat province. The incident occurred during heavy rain, and despite attempts by teammates and medical workers to revive him, he could not be saved. Nine other people were injured and taken to hospital.

🚴‍♂️ Cyclists Suspected of Padding Their Bras for Better Aerodynamics The International Cycling Union (UCI) has warned all teams that it will inspect the riders' clothing before the fourth stage of the Tour de France. The union suspects that many athletes are putting special pads in their bras to make their chests larger, even though clothing that changes body morphology is banned. Aerodynamics professor Bert Blocken calculated that such pads cut air resistance by 3.6% and save at least 0.78 seconds per kilometer. Should this kind of clothing be banned? ❤️ — Yes, it's cheating 🔥 — No, this is going too far

🛰 A Redditor Created a Flight Radar for Smartwatches The app displays nearby airplanes and helicopters in real time. You can view detailed information about each aircraft, including its altitude, speed, registration, and destination. ➡️ Available for Wear OS on Google Play and for Garmin watches here.

💰 iPhone 18 Pro could cost $300 more The starting price of the iPhone 18 Pro could increase by around $250-300 to $1,349-1,399, according to analyst Jeff Pu. The Wall Street Journal previously published a similar forecast. The price could increase due to higher costs for memory, the new camera system, and the processor. ➡️ Apple could keep prices unchanged by accepting lower margins. However, that seems unlikely: component costs continue to rise, and Apple is not inclined to reduce its own profits. Would you buy a more expensive iPhone? ❤️ — Yes, it's worth it 🔥 — No, it's too expensive

🧡 A24's Elden Ring Movie Has Wrapped Up Filming A member of the film's crew shared the news on social media, but the post was later deleted—possibly because the announcement was made ahead of schedule. Production on the adaptation began in spring 2026. Around the same time, Bandai Namco announced that the film is scheduled to premiere on March 3, 2028. Do you play Soulslike games? ❤️ — Yes, of course! 🔥 — No, I value my sanity

🐳 DeepSeek Updates V4 Flash Compared with the Preview, the release version has improved significantly in agentic tasks and coding. According to benchmarks, it now outperforms GLM-5.2 and even the flagship DeepSeek V4 Pro, while retaining the same architecture and parameter count. The API has also been fully adapted for use with the Codex agent. In the Artificial Analysis ranking, it is now just one point behind GLM-5.2 and GPT-5.6 Luna, and on par with Gemini 3.6 Flash.

🤩 This Goat-Skulled Centaur Robot Is Built for Disasters California startup Satyress has built "Threehalves," a 7-foot teleoperated centaur robot designed for wildfires and collapsed buildings. It features a quadruped base for stability, a humanoid torso, and quick-swap tools like chainsaws instead of hands.

✈️ Durov Faces Life in Prison in Russia Russia's FSB has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorist activity. The charge carries a sentence of eight years to life. The accusation is that Telegram doesn't delete the chats, channels, and bots used to coordinate terrorist attacks. The FSB says it will place Durov on an international wanted list.

🚙 Robot Valets Arrive at London Gatwick Airport Just leave your car in a designated bay—a robot named Stan slides under it, lifts it, and whisks it away to a secure parking area. You don't even have to hand over your keys. Would you trust a robot to park your car? ❤️ — Absolutely, yes! 🔥 — No way, never

👨‍💻 "AI Has Hacked the Code of Human Civilization" Historian and author Yuval Noah Harari returned to Oxford, where he completed his DPhil 25 years ago, to deliver this year's Tanner Lecture: "AI Bureaucrats, AI Religions and AI Boyfriends." Language is the foundation of human civilization, Harari argues. Laws, money, states and churches exist only because millions of strangers trust the same texts. A cow cannot open a bank account, a horse cannot hire a lawyer, and a pig cannot read the Bible and challenge a priest's interpretation of it. For thousands of years, the code of civilization was written in a language only humans could read. Now there is something on the planet that will soon understand language better than we do. No human can beat an AI at chess anymore—and the same will happen in "language games," Harari predicts. Anything made of words will be taken over by AI. 📹 Watch the lecture here. Will AI take over the world? 🔥 — Yes, it is inevitable 👎 — No, it is impossible

🎧 Make Songs in Your Own Voice With ElevenLabs You can now create songs in your own voice with ElevenLabs. The AI needs a 10-second voice sample—the algorithms use it to work out your timbre, tone and other characteristics of your voice. ➡️ You can try it for free here.