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Top Highlights: OpenAI reaches $500B valuation, exceeding SpaceX, with Sora 2 raising deepfake concerns. NVIDIA hits $4T milestone as enterprise AI spending grows. Google releases Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with "nano banana" for creative AI. Microsoft enhances Sentinel with agentic AI. Perplexity launches Comet AI browser.

New Tools: Perplexity Comet challenges Chrome with research-focused browsing. Microsoft 365 Premium introduces Agent Framework for workflow automation. Salesforce MuleSoft Agent Fabric manages AI agent governance. Chrome DevTools adds Model Context Protocol for AI troubleshooting. Google Jules expands with CLI/API capabilities. Snowflake launches Cortex AI for financial services.

LLM Updates: Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Image offers flexible image generation. IBM Granite 4 combines Mamba and Transformer architectures. Claude Sonnet 4.5 ties Opus 4.1 in Text Arena. Zhipu GLM-4.6 improves evaluation transparency. Alibaba Qwen3-VL-235B reduces compute needs with FP8. Huawei SINQ advances quantization efficiency.

Research: MIT/IBM develop LLM scaling laws for cost prediction. MIT/McMaster discover antibiotic for Crohn's bacteria. UCLA demonstrates optical generative model. AI enhances Serengeti migration tracking. New protein/DNA design tools raise biosecurity concerns. Apple researches hallucination detection.

Industry/Policy: OpenAI valued at $500B before DevDay. NVIDIA becomes first $4T company. US State Department outlines 2026 AI strategy. Italy bans Clothoff for explicit AI images. Fujitsu/NVIDIA and Hitachi/OpenAI partner on AI infrastructure. Microsoft Sentinel adds unified data lake.

Guides: Andrew Ng launches new deep learning course. Guide features laptop-compatible AI models. JAX accelerates Bayesian inference in Stan. DSPy's GEPA automates prompt optimization. Qwen model family guide for various applications.

Demos: OpenAI Sora 2 Pro impresses with high-quality video. KLING 2.5 Turbo shows improved motion quality. Luma tests Ray 3 and HDR 3. Moondream demonstrates industrial fault detection. Video Agents enable interactive video analysis.

Discussions: Experts advocate task-specific models over monolithic approaches. Research suggests earlier reasoning training reduces forgetting. New limits identified in policy gradient learning. Safety research explores "secret-keeper" systems. Synthetic data studies show moderate rephrasing benefits. Builders prioritize memory and UX over parameter counts.

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