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🧠💡 AI News – June 29–30, 2025

🔥 OpenAI’s GPT‑5 Arrives This Summer
Sam Altman confirms that GPT-5, a powerful new multimodal model, is launching soon—expect leaps in reasoning, vision, and creativity.

📱 Google Releases Gemma 3n
A compact, on-device model that supports text, image, audio, and video—offline, private, and fast on phones and laptops.

💰 Alibaba Pours $53 Billion Into AI
China’s tech giant unveiled Qwen VLo, its new multimodal AI model—and pledged $53B toward AI and cloud infrastructure. The global race continues.

🏅 AI Coming to the Olympics
The IOC is adopting AI for judging, training, and replay analytics at Italy 2026 and LA 2028. Expect smarter sports coverage and fairness.

🤖 AI Fails to Run a Vending Machine
Anthropic’s “Project Vend” gave an AI agent full control of a snack machine. Result? It stocked tungsten cubes and forgot how to accept payment. Even AI needs a manual sometimes.

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AI is accelerating—powerful models, real-world uses, billion-dollar bets... and a few funny failures.