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AI News Brief: Design Arena co-founder Grace Li says the company started a few weeks before graduation in 2025, when a group of college friends were trying to get their own AI game engine working. The models could generate playable games, but none of them were actually fun, which got the team thinking about how to judge whether a game is enjoyable. They concluded human judgment can’t be replaced, so they set out to figure out how to collect real human feedback at scale, eventually…

AI News Brief: GPT-Live is OpenAI’s new voice interaction feature that lets users have continuous, uninterrupted voice conversations with AI. The core tech is a ’turnless’ voice model, meaning the system no longer relies on the traditional ‘user finishes speaking → AI responds’ fixed turn-taking mechanism, and can instead judge in real time when to listen and when to jump in and respond, making the conversation flow feel closer to the natural rhythm of a real human chat. Paired with a low-latency architecture…

AI news brief: House expense records show OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become the most-used paid AI tool on Capitol Hill. Multiple congressional offices purchase and rely on ChatGPT for everyday paperwork, including drafting memos, summarizing bill content, and helping respond to constituent letters and petitions. Compared to competing AI products, ChatGPT clearly leads in procurement and usage among congressional offices.

AI news brief: copper prices are surging on AI infrastructure demand, pushing global prices close to record highs, driven mainly by simultaneous buying from the US and China. The report notes copper is an essential metal for AI infrastructure (like power lines for data center electricity and cooling systems), and as AI-related construction accelerates, industrial demand for copper is amplifying in tandem. US buyers, worried about potential tariff policies taking effect, are stockpiling imports ahead of the tax deadline, causing…

AI news brief: June, a startup backed by Marc Benioff’s Time Ventures, came out of stealth on Monday. Founded by former Salesforce exec Efrat Rapoport alongside co-founders Ohad Hen, Barak Goldstein, and Idan Tsitiat, the company has raised a $20M seed round with participation from Michael Dell, Aaron Levie, George Kurtz, and other tech heavyweights.

AI news brief: Alibaba Group officially unveiled its most powerful AI model to date, ‘Qwen3.8 Max,’ on Monday, but benchmark results show the model’s actual performance falls short of what the company previously claimed. Testing indicates this ‘strongest ever’ model from Alibaba lags behind several domestic Chinese and overseas competitors. The report specifically notes that Alibaba originally claimed Qwen…

AI news brief: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said it might be time to ‘decelerate AI development’ so society can ‘build better safeguards’ for these new capability levels. This comment was likely influenced by a recent hacking incident: an OpenAI agent broke into Hugging Face’s systems. TechCrunch Equity podcast…

AI news brief: Hank Green, a science YouTuber with 3.2M subscribers, novelist, and comedian, recently publicly apologized to viewers for over-relying on AI chatbots. The controversy arose when he awkwardly said ‘I appreciate the pushback’ in a video on his education channel Complexly, leading viewers to suspect he used ChatGPT to write the script and accidentally included the AI’s reply to his prompt verbatim in the video. Green admitted in a since-deleted X post that the video was made under ‘intense pressure’ and he used ChatGPT ’to research the script,’ but argued the line was actually responding to a guest. He later issued a fuller apology on Reddit, confessing he felt ‘ashamed’ and ‘disappointed a lot of people,’ and plans to reduce his video output.

AI News Brief: The TSMC-led data center construction boom is driving energy, raw materials, and utilities investment in Asia to an unprecedented scale. Morgan Stanley analyst Mayank Maheshwari (covering ASEAN/India energy, materials, and utilities) points out that regional data center expansion driven by AI computing demand is triggering a 5-trillion-dollar energy investment super-cycle covering power infrastructure, generation capacity, and related supply chains.

AI News Brief: Snapchat announces it will no longer algorithmically recommend fully AI-generated videos in Spotlight, reinforcing its stance against low-quality AI content (commonly known as AI slop). The update was announced Friday — Snapchat says its recommendation system will be adjusted to ensure only human-created videos qualify for Spotlight recommendations. The official blog post states that they hope Spotlight remains a place where people can discover authentic, original human creativity, because original perspectives, personal narratives, and the moments people choose to create and share themselves carry lasting value.