AI Journal 172nd Edition

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  • Trump Unveils 'AI Action Plan,' Calls for Rebranding AI as ‘Genius’

  • Decoding History: AI Resurrects Ancient Roman Inscriptions

  • AI Coding Gets a Reality Check: K Prize Winner Scores Just 7.5%

  • Sam Altman Warns of AI's Power, Pushes for Acceleration in Washington

  • Cloudflare Powers Up for the AI Era—Securely and Transparently

  • AI Funding

  • AI in Healthcare

  • AI Tools

  • Interesting Posting

Trump Unveils 'AI Action Plan,' Calls for Rebranding AI as ‘Genius’
At a major AI summit, Donald Trump criticized the term "artificial intelligence," suggesting it be renamed to reflect its brilliance, calling it “genius.” He unveiled his “America’s AI Action Plan,” aiming to accelerate U.S. AI development by slashing federal regulations and requiring AI companies to eliminate ideological bias to qualify for government contracts, emphasizing free speech and neutrality.
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Decoding History: AI Resurrects Ancient Roman Inscriptions
Researchers partnered with Google DeepMind to develop Aeneas, an AI tool that reconstructs damaged ancient Roman Latin inscriptions by predicting missing words from a vast database. It helps historians recover lost meanings, dates inscriptions accurately, and links related texts, accelerating discoveries while requiring expert validation for historical context.
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AI Coding Gets a Reality Check: K Prize Winner Scores Just 7.5%
The K Prize, an AI coding challenge by Laude Institute, crowned Eduardo Rocha de Andrade its first winner with just 7.5% accuracy—highlighting the test’s difficulty. Designed to avoid data contamination, it sets a new benchmark for real-world coding tasks and challenges claims about AI’s readiness for complex software engineering.
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Sam Altman Warns of AI's Power, Pushes for Acceleration in Washington
During a Washington visit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted AI would eliminate entire job categories like customer support and surpass doctors in diagnostics. He warned of AI’s misuse by hostile nations and fraud risks from voice cloning, while aligning with Trump’s pro-AI acceleration stance and expanding OpenAI’s presence in Washington.
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Cloudflare Powers Up for the AI Era—Securely and Transparently
Cloudflare is evolving into a key AI infrastructure player, supporting developers with scalable tools, promoting safer AI protocols like MCP, and advocating for fair AI content use. CTO Dane Knecht emphasizes responsible development, transparency during failures, and empowering solo devs—all while positioning Cloudflare as the backbone of the modern AI internet.
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AI in Healthcare

  • AI-powered speech screening tool enables early Parkinson’s detection by analyzing vocal patterns, offering promising new diagnostic possibilities. Link

  • Scientists in Singapore have developed an AI tool, TIMES score, that predicts liver cancer recurrence with 82% accuracy, enabling early intervention and personalized treatment. It analyzes tumor immune cells and gene activity and is accessible via an online portal for doctors. Link

  • A new NTT DATA report reveals key barriers to generative AI adoption in healthcare: strategy misalignment, skill shortages, outdated infrastructure, and governance gaps. Link

AI Tools

  • Memories.ai: AI video platform that “sees and remembers,” enabling searchable indexing, multimodal analysis, video chat, and clip extraction across massive footage collections

  • Z.ai is an intelligent assistant for presentations, writing, and coding—offering free, instant AI-driven support across creative and technical tasks.

  • Gumloop is a no-code AI automation platform with drag-and-drop workflows, multi-app integrations, and powerful document, web, and email automation.

  • LALAL.AI is an AI-powered vocal and instrument remover that separates up to 10 stems—vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, synth—from audio and video files.

  • Crayo AI is an all‑in‑one tool that generates viral‑ready clips—AI voiceovers, subtitles, gameplay optimization—from text, links, or scripts in seconds

Interesting Posts

  • CPC’s Everis® UQD06 Series connectors address AI’s growing liquid cooling demands by optimizing higher-flow systems for hyperscale AI and data centers. Link

  • YouTube Shorts adds generative AI tools to animate photos and drawings, turning still images into dynamic, creative video content. Link

  • Debiase explores AI’s “Seven Wonders” shaping a new algorithmic civilization, highlighting AI’s societal, economic, and global impact. Link

  • Google introduces AI shopping features: virtual try-on with personal photos, smarter price tracking with alerts, and upcoming AI-generated outfit inspiration. Link

  • AI slop—fake AI-generated bug reports—overwhelm security teams, reducing efficiency despite AI-human review hybrids filtering and prioritizing true threats. Link

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