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• Saba Knows Your Local Lingo

• European Open Source Empire

• No Coding Skills to Software Engineer

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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AI vs. Crossword Chaos
AI models are facing off against NPR’s Sunday Puzzle, and let’s just say… they’re having a very human experience. From giving up to getting ‘frustrated,’ these AIs are proving they’re as lost as we are.

AI Manipulation Is Here and You Won’t See It Coming
Back in the day, AI agents were Pac-Man ghosts chasing you around a maze. Now, they’re about to chase your wallet, your votes, and maybe even your thoughts. With tech like Deepseek-R1 making AI more accessible, conversational AI will soon decode your personality to influence you more effectively than the best car salesman.

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AI Gets a Culture Pass
Mistral’s Saba AI Knows Your Local Lingo

Mistral AI just launched Saba, an AI model built to actually understand Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian languages.

With 24 billion parameters, Saba is leaner than most big models but supposedly smarter where it counts. It runs efficiently, even on a single GPU, meaning it won't require a tech empire to operate. Companies are already using it for Arabic virtual assistants and specialized industry tools.

Mistral keeps its development process as secret as grandma’s best recipes, but it looks like niche, culturally aware AI might be the future.

EU's AI Power Play
Europe Wants Its Own Open Source AI Empire

Europe is tired of relying on Silicon Valley for AI and is betting big on OpenEuroLLM—an ambitious open-source project backed by €37.4M.

It’s designed to serve 24+ European languages, ensuring AI independence. But with 20+ partners from academia and industry, is this a well-oiled machine or a committee-fueled mess? Critics worry about focus, budget constraints, and the challenges of balancing openness with quality. Still, the EU is determined to make AI infrastructure a homegrown affair.

The question isn’t just 'Can they do it?' but 'Can they do it well?'

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Devs for Dummies
Replit is Turning Non-Coders into Software Engineers

Replit has teamed up with Anthropic and Google Cloud to let non-technical folks build real, working software.

With AI assistance from Claude, even employees with zero coding experience are creating apps that Zillow now uses to route 100,000+ home buyers. This shift could solve the global developer shortage but also raises questions about security and maintainability. Will AI-assisted programming democratize development or just flood the internet with spaghetti code?

Either way, the next billion software developers might not write a single line of code themselves—and that might be the goal.

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Everything Else You Need To Know 📈

ChatGPT’s Therapy Responses Are More ‘Empathetic’ Than Humans: A study tested people’s ability to distinguish between AI-generated and human therapy responses, and most folks flunked the test. In some cases, AI’s responses were rated as more empathetic and culturally competent than those from real pros.

AI Just Took an L in a Copyright Fight: Thomson Reuters just scored a legal win against Ross Intelligence, an AI company that used its copyrighted legal summaries for training. A judge ruled that Ross wasn’t applying fair use, setting a precedent that could make AI companies sweat.

South Korea Blocks DeepSeek Over Privacy Concerns: South Korea just hit pause on DeepSeek downloads, questioning how the Chinese AI handles user data. Spoiler: They found links to ByteDance. Now, privacy concerns are running high, and DeepSeek has some explaining to do.

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