🎧 Google launches real-time translation for any headphones 🎧
Gemini-powered feature preserves speaker tone and cadence

Google Translate now offers real-time audio translation compatible with any headphones, powered by Gemini AI. The beta feature maintains the original speaker's tone, emphasis, and cadence to create more natural-sounding translations. Users can experience seamless conversation translation through their existing audio devices, breaking down language barriers in real-time conversations. This advancement represents a significant step toward universal communication without specialized hardware requirements.

⚡ OpenAI silently adopts Anthropic's Skills ⚡
Skills support quietly appears in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

OpenAI has silently implemented Anthropic's Skills mechanism across both ChatGPT's Code Interpreter and their Codex CLI tool, demonstrating rapid cross-platform adoption of the lightweight specification. ChatGPT now includes a /home/oai/skills folder accessible through prompts, covering spreadsheets, documents, and PDFs with vision-based processing for layout preservation. This quiet rollout validates Anthropic's approach of using simple folder structures with Markdown files for specialized AI capabilities.

👨‍💼 DeepSeek founder profiled 👨‍💼
Chinese AI leader exemplifies entrepreneurial transformation in tech sector

A detailed profile reveals Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek's founder, as a prime example of modern educated youth changing destiny through entrepreneurship in China's competitive AI landscape. The piece explores how Wenfeng created his own success path rather than following traditional routes, positioning him as a representative figure of China's new generation of tech entrepreneurs. His journey from conventional background to leading AI innovation demonstrates the transformative power of entrepreneurship in China's rapidly evolving technology sector.

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🌍 World expands to 100+ countries 🌍

World, the Sam Altman-backed network, announced major updates to its "proof of human" super app, introducing secure chats, global digital payments, and mini apps. The platform now operates in over 100 countries, positioning itself as a comprehensive digital identity and financial services solution. This expansion marks World's aggressive push into mainstream adoption beyond its initial identity verification focus.

🤖 Google unveils Veo robotics simulator 🤖

Google's Gemini Robotics Team has released Veo for robotics, a world model system that enables comprehensive policy evaluation from in-distribution scenarios to safety testing. The system uses Google's Veo video foundation model fine-tuned for robot action conditioning and multi-view consistency, allowing researchers to simulate realistic robotic interactions without hardware. Through 1600+ real-world validations, the system demonstrates accurate prediction of policy performance and enables red-teaming for safety vulnerabilities in robotic behaviors.