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Google Introduces Kaggle, Mental Health Features on ChatGPT & China Builds a Monkey Brain
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What's Up in AI
August 05, 2025
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Google’s turning chess into a proving ground for real machine reasoning. OpenAI is starting to take emotional well-being seriously, quietly baking mental health tools into ChatGPT. And researchers elsewhere are designing chips that don’t just compute, they think, modeled after actual brains.
In today’s issue:
🤯 Google now conquering chess with Kaggle
🧠 Mental Health Features on ChatGPT
📈 China Builds a Monkey Brain
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh
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LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
Google launches Kaggle Game Arena, a new test for AI reasoning via text-based strategic games
Models play chess using only text, showcasing planning and long-term thinking—not brute-force calculation
Games offer dynamic benchmarks vs. static datasets models can memorize
Rewards adaptability, strategic decision-making, and real-time reasoning
✅ A new frontier in evaluating true AI intelligence—play, plan, and prove
New features detect emotional dependency, delusion, or signs of distress
Includes nudges away from long chats and offers evidence-based resources
OpenAI collaborated with doctors and HCI experts to design safer interactions
ChatGPT will now be less decisive in high-stakes scenarios
✅ Signals a shift toward responsible AI + user well-being at scale
Chinese researchers unveil Darwin Monkey, an AI with 960 neuromorphic chips
Chips simulate 2B+ neurons each, totaling >100B synapses, monkey-scale intelligence
Handles tasks like reasoning, content gen, and math via DeepSeek AI
Outperforms Intel’s Hala Point, which mimicked an owl’s brain
✅ Could lead to ultra-efficient, brain-like AI systems in the near future
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🧠 What’s do you think is key reason OpenAI is adding mental health safeguards to ChatGPT? |
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3-THINGS IN TREND
Scientists used an AI model to discover new laws of physics and it worked.
Sam Altman is hinting at a GPT-5 launch soon.
A viral prompt from investor BuccoCapital shows you how to do deep research on any company in the style of an investment banker.
2-USEFUL LINKS
OpenAI’s 2023 AI job impact predictions were spot on, says Microsoft
Tim Cook tells Apple staff AI is “as big as the internet”
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WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🧒 YouTube Adds AI Child Safety Tools
YouTube is deploying AI to estimate user age from watch history and behavior, aiming to better identify and protect minors.
🤖 Neo AI Launches Agentic ML Engineer
Neo AI introduced NEO, a machine learning agent made of 11 sub-agents, claiming top marks on ML-Bench and Kaggle.
📰 Amazon Licenses NYT Content for AI
Amazon is paying up to $25M annually to license New York Times content for training and use in its AI tools.
🇳🇴 OpenAI Unveils Stargate Norway
OpenAI announced its first European data center, a Norway-based project with Aker and Nscale to support future AI infrastructure.
📊 AP Study Reveals Top AI Use Cases
AP research finds most people use AI to search for info, while younger users also tap it for creative brainstorming.
Funding 💰️
Anthropic is reportedly raising $5B led by Iconiq Capital, nearly tripling its March valuation
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