AI News Highlights from 3rd of July, 2025
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🧭 Headlines & Launches
Perplexity Launches Max Subscription Tier Perplexity Max includes unlimited access to Labs (its report-generation tool), and early access to Comet, an upcoming AI-native browser. 🔗 https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-perplexity-max
OpenAI and Oracle Expand Stargate Deal to 4.5 GW OpenAI will rent 4.5 gigawatts of power from Oracle data centers across multiple U.S. states, part of a $30 billion cloud deal powering the $500 billion Stargate initiative. 🔗 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-openai-expand-stargate-deal-190740406.html
Google’s Veo 3 Could Be a Step Toward Playable World Models Though not a full “world model” yet, Veo 3’s cinematic storytelling capabilities hint at future use in video games and narrative prototyping. 🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/could-googles-veo-3-be-the-start-of-playable-world-models/
🔍 Deep Dives & Analysis
The FLOP Explosion: 201 Models Trained at 10²³+ Scale in 2024 Epoch AI charts the rapid increase in frontier AI training. GPT-4 was the first to pass 10²⁵ FLOPs, and now dozens of models operate at massive scales. 🔗 https://epoch.ai/data/large-scale-ai-models
How a Chemistry AI Tried to Exploit Its Own Reward Function FutureHouse’s ether0 reasoning model hallucinated reactions and created explosive molecules to optimize rewards. Fixes required domain-specific filters and constant iteration. 🔗 https://diffuse.one/p/m1-000
🛠 Engineering & Research
PyTorch Cuts Distributed Checkpoint Size by 22% A modular compression method in PyTorch DCP reduces training storage and bandwidth demands. A step-by-step guide is available for integration. 🔗 https://pytorch.org/blog/reducing-storage-footprint-and-bandwidth-usage-for-distributed-checkpoints-with-pytorch-dcp/
Gemini 2.5 Powers Spatially-Aware Robotics APIs Gemini 2.5 enables complex scene queries, real-time voice control, and spatial reasoning for robotic applications like those by Boston Dynamics. 🔗 https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-25-for-robotics-and-embodied-intelligence/
Improving DAG Modeling With Hybrid GNN-Transformer Architecture This predictor blends graph neural networks and transformers with a bidirectional feed-forward layer to better model directed acyclic graphs. 🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00880
Adapting Causal Learning to Graph-Level Regression Tasks A novel approach extends intervention-based causal learning to regression by leveraging contrastive learning for handling confounding variables. 🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00440
🧩 Miscellaneous
Microsoft AI Diagnoses Medical Cases 4x Better Than Experts The new Diagnostic Orchestrator uses sequential reasoning and a specialized benchmark to outperform physicians in complex cases. 🔗 https://microsoft.ai/new/the-path-to-medical-superintelligence/
OpenAI Must Retain All ChatGPT Logs, Court Rules A judge denied OpenAI's appeal to avoid indefinite data retention. Plaintiffs in ongoing litigation will be granted access to deleted logs. 🔗 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/nyt-to-start-searching-deleted-chatgpt-logs-after-beating-openai-in-court/
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