🎬 Luma Launches Start-To-End AI Video Model
Luma released Ray3 Modify, a new AI model that edits or generates video using start and end frames. It preserves original human performance while transforming scenes, characters, and settings. Creators can guide transitions, retain motion and emotion, and apply character references.
🤯 China Replicates ASML EUV Chip Technology
China has built and is testing a prototype EUV lithography machine for advanced chipmaking, Reuters reports. The system, reverse-engineered from older ASML tools by former engineers, can generate EUV light but not yet usable chips. The secret project supports China’s push for semiconductor self-sufficiency amid export controls.
📲 OpenAI Opens ChatGPT App Directory
OpenAI is now accepting third-party app submissions for direct use inside ChatGPT. Approved apps appear in a new App Directory and can be triggered within conversations. OpenAI will review all apps before listing, with user rollout starting in early 2026. The move turns ChatGPT into an app platform, not just a chatbot.
💰 Lovable Raises $330M
Lovable raised $330 million in Series B funding at a $6.6 billion valuation. The platform targets non-technical builders creating real software without writing code. It reports 25 million projects built in its first year. The funding will expand integrations, collaboration, and production-ready infrastructure.
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A Tech Breakthrough Born From Laziness
In 1991, computer scientists at Cambridge University faced a daily annoyance: walking down the hall only to find the coffee pot was empty. To solve this specific problem, they invented a device that is now standard on almost every laptop and smartphone in the world.
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Universal Basic Income Focuses on Stability Not Replacing Work
Universal basic income is routinely misrepresented as a plan to replace work entirely—an imagined future where government checks supplant paychecks and social decay follows. That caricature makes it easy to declare UBI unrealistic or dangerous, then redirect attention to wage subsidies framed as the responsible solution. It’s a familiar move. It’s also wrong.
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China Secretly Builds EUV Lithography Prototype To Close AI Chip Gap
China has built and begun testing a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine—the core technology needed to make the world’s most advanced AI chips—according to a Reuters investigation. Developed in a high-security Shenzhen lab by a state-backed team that includes former ASML engineers, the machine can generate EUV light but has not yet produced working chips.
The effort, launched around 2019 and likened by insiders to a “Manhattan Project,” aims to reduce China’s reliance on Western semiconductor technology amid U.S.-led export controls. While significant technical hurdles remain, the prototype suggests China could reach limited EUV capability years earlier than analysts previously expected. → Read the full article here.
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📟 Google Brings Opal to Gemini: The vibe-coding tool now lets users build AI mini-apps inside Gemini using natural language and a visual editor, expanding custom Gems without writing code.
🏛️ US Launches Tech Force: The Office of Personnel Management will hire 1,000 early-career AI and tech workers into federal agencies, aiming to modernize and compete in the global talent race.
🛎️ Alexa+ Gets Smarter Doorbells: Amazon adds conversational AI to Ring, letting Alexa handle deliveries, sales reps, and visitors via visual cues—raising convenience and misidentification concerns.
✊ Hollywood Forms AI Creators Coalition: Over 500 industry leaders launched CCAI to set standards on consent, jobs, and safeguards, aiming to shape responsible AI use before tech firms dictate it.
🪦 2025’s Biggest Tech Flops: MIT lists the year’s worst failures, from Cybertruck sales slumps to sycophantic AI and failed robots—showing how hype, politics, and power derailed innovation.
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The Webcam
To save themselves the walk, the scientists rigged a camera to the coffee machine and wrote a program to display the live feed on their desktops. It wasn't for security or video calls—it was purely so they could check the coffee levels without standing up.
When they later connected it to the internet, the "Trojan Room Coffee Pot" became the world's first webcam celebrity. Millions of people logged on just to watch a grainy pot boil in England.
