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AI Daily Highlights: August 04, 2025

Your comprehensive daily AI news digest covering key developments in artificial intelligence, including major product launches, funding rounds, industry insights, and market trends. Stay informed with today's most impactful AI news.

2025-08-05T00:42:01.514151

Cloudflare Accuses AI Firm Perplexity of 'Stealth Crawling'

Cloudflare accuses AI startup Perplexity of using stealth crawlers to bypass site restrictions. This triggers fresh concerns over how AI firms access web content, highlighting a significant industry dispute.

2025-08-05T08:39:39.000Z

Silicon Valley's 'Hard Tech' Era & AI Avatar Controversy

Silicon Valley is shifting to a 'hard tech' era with fewer perks and more scrutiny, reflecting a changing political landscape. Separately, former CNN journalist Jim Acosta sparked debate by interviewing an AI avatar of a school shooting victim.

2025-08-05T08:28:47.000Z

Generative AI Powers Autonomous Networks: A PhD Research Deep Dive

Shaghayegh Shajarian's PhD research applies generative AI to computer networks, developing AI-driven agents for autonomous management, log analysis, and troubleshooting. The goal is to reduce manual work and create self-running networks, leveraging LLMs for intelligent operations and cybersecurity.

2025-08-05T08:13:30.000Z

Brilliant Labs unveils Halo: World's thinnest AI smart glasses debut

Brilliant Labs launched Halo, AI-powered smart glasses weighing 40g, featuring a full-color display and an open-source AI assistant, Noa. Halo offers real-time conversational AI, object recognition, and a unique 'narrative system' for memory. Priced at $299, pre-orders are open for November global shipments.

2025-08-05T08:09:12.000Z

Google Curbs AI Data Center Power to Ease US Grid Strain

Google signs agreements with US utilities to reduce AI data center power during peak demand. These first-of-their-kind demand-response programs for AI workloads aim to ease grid strain and allow faster data center interconnection amid surging energy needs.

2025-08-05T08:02:19.000Z

White House AI Plan: Bias Stance, Automation Bias & Neutrality Challenges

The article analyzes the White House AI Action Plan's stance on bias, noting its call for ideological neutrality despite policy contradictions. It discusses automation bias and highlights the difficulty of achieving truly unbiased AI due to inherent human influence and political shifts, using examples like Gemini and Grok.

2025-08-05T08:00:00.000Z

Altman teases GPT-5 as ChatGPT nears 700M users

Sam Altman teased OpenAI's GPT-5, expected to have a larger context window and coding prowess. Concurrently, ChatGPT is on track to reach 700 million active users, demonstrating significant growth for the AI platform amidst rising competition from models like Gemini and Claude.

2025-08-05T07:49:07.000Z

Tariffs Slow Hon Hai Sales, Impacting Nvidia Supply Chain

Hon Hai, Nvidia's server assembly partner, reported July sales growth slowed to 7.25% (NT$613.8 billion), its weakest since January. Tariffs are identified as the cause, impacting electronics demand and potentially affecting the broader tech supply chain for companies like Apple and Nvidia.

2025-08-05T07:47:32.000Z

AI Fintech Alaan Secures $48M Series A, MENA's Largest Round

AI-powered fintech Alaan, founded by ex-McKinsey consultants, raised $48M in Series A funding led by Peak XV Partners. The Middle East's leading spend management platform, Alaan addresses corporate expense challenges and expanded into Saudi Arabia, overcoming significant regulatory hurdles.

2025-08-05T07:45:00.000Z

Germany & Japan's ISS robots team up for historic AI-guided mission

German and Japanese ISS robots, CIMON and Int-Ball2, successfully collaborated for the first time. CIMON, with AI voice recognition, commanded Int-Ball2 to find an item, streaming live video. This historic mission, involving JAXA and DLR, paves the way for future human-robot space cooperation.

2025-08-05T07:26:07.000Z

Laurel Secures $100M for AI Time Intelligence, Transforms Legal Tech

Laurel, an AI-powered time intelligence platform, raised $100M after eight years. It transforms legal tech by leveraging AI to surface 'True Time,' boosting revenue and efficiency for professional services, and shifting market perception from cost center to strategic asset.

2025-08-05T07:21:05.000Z

AI drives rising unemployment for young tech workers, per Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs indicates AI is rapidly increasing unemployment among young tech workers (20-30 year olds) since early 2024. Their jobless rate is rising much faster than the overall unemployment rate.

2025-08-05T06:57:13.000Z

Build Multi-Agent Conversational AI with AutoGen and Gemini API

This tutorial explores integrating Microsoft AutoGen with Google's Gemini API via LiteLLM to create a multi-agent conversational AI framework. It details environment setup, Gemini configuration, and building specialized agent teams for research, business, and software development tasks on Google Colab.

2025-08-05T06:51:24.000Z

AI Infra Boom: Reshaping Global Economy & Risking Financial Crunch?

AI's focus has shifted to massive capital-intensive infrastructure, with tech giants investing billions into chips and data centers, impacting national GDP. While promising an economic revolution, experts warn of potential financial risks from highly correlated investments and off-balance-sheet vehicles.

2025-08-05T06:41:45.000Z

Lyft & Baidu to launch Euro robo-cabs in UK & Germany next year

Lyft and Baidu plan to launch robo-cab services in the UK and Germany next year, using Baidu Apollo vehicles. They aim to scale to thousands across Europe, utilizing the FREENOW app. Regulatory approval is crucial, as both nations prepare for autonomous vehicle deployment, facing challenges like mapping complex local roads.

2025-08-05T06:28:10.000Z

Developers Ditch AI Tools, Return to VS Code for Reliability

Developers are reportedly shifting back to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, citing its improved features and reliability. This trend suggests a waning interest in specialized AI coding tools, as VS Code evolves to meet developer needs more effectively.

2025-08-05T06:21:08.000Z

TSMC Investigates Potential Advanced Chip Tech Leak

TSMC is investigating a potential leak of advanced 2nm chipmaking trade secrets, taking action against responsible staff. The company initiated legal proceedings against employees suspected of seeking proprietary information, impacting future AI accelerators and smartphones.

2025-08-05T05:53:22.000Z

Google AI Unveils LangExtract: Open-Source Python Library for Data Extraction

Google AI released LangExtract, an open-source Python library. It uses LLMs like Gemini to extract traceable, structured data from unstructured text. Key features include declarative extraction, schema enforcement, and scalability, applicable across diverse domains from healthcare to literature.

2025-08-05T05:49:50.000Z

China's BrainCo Seeks Pre-IPO Funds at $1.3B Valuation

Chinese startup BrainCo, a Neuralink competitor, seeks $100M in pre-IPO funding at a $1.3B valuation. Founded by Han Bicheng, it develops AI-powered prosthetics and plans a Hong Kong or mainland China IPO.

2025-08-05T05:48:13.000Z