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🌀 A Chinese Man Washed His Windows with a Typhoon An inventive resident of Zhejiang left his windows soapy ahead of the typhoon—and the storm did the rest of the work. The glass was left perfectly clean. What do you think of the idea? ❤️ — Smart! 🤣 — Lazy

💽 Chinese MinMax Has Released Music 3, An Open-Source Music Generator It creates songs of up to five minutes and runs locally—even on consumer hardware. The full model fits on a GPU with 24 GB of VRAM, but it can run with as little as 8 GB. ➡ You can try it for free on Hugging Face.

🐳 DeepSeek Releases Agent Harness DeepSeek Harness is a framework for AI agents built around a new paradigm: "everything is a plugin." Models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, filesystems, loops, orchestration, and UI are all implemented as plugins and can be mixed, matched, replaced, and extended. ➡ The source code and setup instructions are available on GitHub. For now, it's a developer preview.

🐶 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! 🔥 — No, 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.