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• 💊 Korean researchers' breakthrough could revolutionize drug discovery.

• 💸 Perplexity bids $34B for Chrome.

• 🧠 Meta's TRIBE predicts neural responses to films.

• ⚡ ChatGPT overhaul brings manual controls.

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

AI Drug Discovery

💊 Korean AI cracks the code for cancer drugs

Cancer drug discovery just got a serious AI upgrade — and it might change medicine forever.

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) built BInD, a diffusion model that designs brand-new cancer drug candidates entirely from scratch — no prior molecular data, no training example

🔍 What Makes It Different?

• 🧬 One-Step Design: Creates the drug and maps how it attaches to cancer-causing proteins — all at once.

• 🎯 Pinpoint Targeting: Hits only the cancer mutations, leaves healthy proteins untouched.

• ✅ Built-In Safety: Ensures drugs are safe, stable & manufacturable from the start.

• ♻️ Self-Improving: Learns from past wins to design even better drugs next time.

💡 Why It Matters
Older AI models worked on just one goal at a time — safety or stability or manufacturability.
BInD does all three simultaneously.

⏳ The Future?
AI-designed drugs are just starting to hit the market.
BInD could open the floodgates to faster, cheaper, precision medicines — and maybe even life-saving cures.

🔥 One AI. One Step. One Mission: End Cancer.

Full Story here — How Korean AI is rewriting cancer drug discovery?

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🧠 Meta’s AI reads your brain while you watch movies

Imagine an AI that knows what your brain is thinking—without ever scanning it.

That’s what Meta’s FAIR team built with TRIBE, a 1-billion-parameter neural network that predicts brain responses to movies just by analyzing the video, audio, and dialogue.

🏆 Award-Winning Tech

🥇 1st Place — Algonauts 2025 Brain Modeling Competition

🔍 How It Works

• 📺 Analyzes video, audio & dialogue from films

• 🧩 Predicts activity across 1,000 brain regions

• 🎯 Accuracy: Over 50% of brain patterns matched

• ⚡ Beats single-sense AIs by 30%

🧠 Key Brain Zones

• 👀 Vision

• 👂 Hearing

• 🗣️ Language

• 🎯 Frontal regions — attention, decisions, emotions

💡 Why It Matters

We’ve barely scratched the surface of brain science.
TRIBE could:

• 🩺 Advance neuroscience & mental health research

• 📲 Unlock formulas for max attention (and maybe make doomscrolling irresistible)

💭 "Your brain might not be private for long."

Full story here — Meta’s Movie-Watching AI Just Outsmarted Neuroscientists

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• Sam Altman confirmed GPT-4o is once again the default model for all paying ChatGPT tiers, removing the “legacy models” toggle. A new “Show additional models” option, on by default, restores GPT-4.1, o3, and o4-mini, while GPU-heavy GPT-4.5 remains exclusive to Pro subscribers. GPT-5, initially positioned as a unified “one-size-fits-all” system with an automatic router, now includes manual “Auto,” “Fast,” and “Thinking” modes, with “Thinking” capped at 3,000 weekly messages.

• Figure AI has shown its Figure 02 humanoid robot folding laundry fully autonomously, powered by its Helix neural net. Unlike Tesla’s Optimus, which earlier performed the same task via teleoperation, Helix required no model architecture changes, only new training data. The same neural net used in logistics was repurposed for laundry, guided by natural language commands and live visual input.

• Perplexity AI has made a $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome, a bold move that could flip the AI search race overnight. The offer, nearly twice Perplexity’s own $18B valuation, comes as the DOJ weighs forcing Google to sell Chrome after a 2024 ruling that it illegally monopolized search. With over 60% global browser share and 3.5 billion users feeding Google Search and its $2T ad business, Chrome is the most valuable piece of browser real estate on the market.

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