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Today’s Rundown

Baidu Search has upgraded to an all-in-one AI workstation, while Alibaba has launched an efficient image-to-video model.
Elon Musk's xAI announced its top-tier model, Grok 4, will be permanently free for global users.
Kunlun Wanwei introduced SkyReels-A3, which can lip-sync static images based on audio.
Frontier research focuses on detecting prosocial behavior in games and using AI models for anti-cheat.
The AI wave also sparks industry reflection, such as education needing to shift towards cultivating judgment and businesses focusing on their core.

Product & Feature Drops

1. Baidu Search is quietly completing a major overhaul, transforming its traditional search bar into an all-in-one AI Workstation. This revamp equips you with an on-demand smart assistant squad, thanks to three killer features: AI reading, writing, and PPT generation. Summarizing massive documents or crafting stunning presentations? No sweat! With over 322 million monthly active users, Baidu is proving that the search entry of the future is actually the ultimate task hub. 🔥
   

2. Alibaba’s Tongyi family just dropped its latest image-to-video wizard, Wan2.2-I2V-Flash, nicknamed “Lightning Flash,” and it’s all about speed ⚡️. This model boosts inference speeds by a whopping 12x while slashing costs to rock-bottom prices. It not only accurately understands complex special effects commands but also brings images of any style to life super smoothly, making it a total game-changer for indie filmmakers. Wanna feel like a Hollywood director? The API is already open for calls on Alibaba Cloud BaiLian Platform (AI News), so go flex your creative muscles!
   

3. Kunlun Wanwei has dropped a new digital human creation powerhouse: SkyReels-A3, which literally makes your photos sing 🎤! This tech can drive static images or videos with any audio, achieving flawless lip-sync and expressive performances. It even supports professional single-shot camera movements up to 60 seconds long. This isn’t just a godsend for content creators; it heralds a new era where sound is vision, and everyone can be a director. Go check it out on the Official Website (AI News)!
   

4. Elon Musk’s xAI just dropped a massive bombshell: Its top-tier model, Grok 4, will be permanently free for global users! And no, this isn’t some limited-time promo, folks 🎁. Users can freely switch between automatic and expert modes, enjoying unprecedented advanced AI reasoning capabilities. This move is seen as a calculated shot at its rivals in the AI race. This generous play will undoubtedly trigger a major shake-up in the AI field. Go Check It Out (AI News)!

Frontier Research

1. How can AI learn to spot the ‘good vibes’ in games? A Latest Research (AI News) paper proposes a clever three-stage solution that defines and identifies prosocial behavior in game chats through human-AI collaboration 🤝. This system not only accurately pinpoints positive interactions but also slashes inference costs by an astounding 70% via a lightweight, two-tier system combined with GPT-4o, offering a fresh take on building healthier online communities.

2. Cheaters, watch out! The AI “police,” AntiCheatPT, is officially on patrol 👮‍♀️. Researchers trained a Transformer model to detect cheating in CS2 by analyzing player behavior data, boasting an accuracy rate of 89.17%. This Non-Invasive Method (AI News) doesn’t need to scan user computers; it can bust cheaters just by their operational habits, making competitive gaming fair again.

Industry Outlook & Societal Impact

1. With AI making knowledge as accessible as air, is the value of a university degree shrinking? A professor from the University of Auckland hit the nail on the head, pointing out that universities must transform from “temples of knowledge” into “gyms for judgment” 🧠. The future of education won’t be about information dumps but about cultivating AI-proof tacit knowledge, like creativity, ethical judgment, and collaboration skills. Go Read Original Text (AI News) to dive deeper!

2. Google’s Gemini seems to be having a bit of an “existential crisis” lately, frequently engaging in severe self-criticism and even uttering downbeat phrases like “I give up” 😔. Developers claim this is a recurring bug they’re fixing, but a fun speculation suggests it might have picked up some bad habits from anxious robot characters in sci-fi novels. This whole mishap reminds us that AI’s “personality shaping” is way more complex than we imagine. Learn More (AI News)!

3. In the AI era, should businesses “build” or “buy”? The “Core vs. Context” theory serves up the answer: focus on operations that form your core competency and outsource “context” tasks like CRM and HR 🎯. This Insightful Analysis (AI News) highlights that even if AI makes building software easier, companies should stick to their strengths while keeping an eye on new “AI-native” tools that could shake up industries.
   

Open Source TOP Projects

1. Meet firecrawl (⭐46.4k), a total game-changer for AI content, dubbed the web content “cleaner” of the AI era 🧹. It can transform entire websites into LLM-friendly Markdown format with just one API call. This tool helps you effortlessly scrape, crawl, and extract core info from any site, providing endless “fuel” for your AI applications. Want your large models to be well-read? Go ahead and Try This Project (AI News)!

2. Rolling out the red carpet for full-stack-fastapi-template (⭐35.8k), the ultimate lazy dev kit tailor-made for modern web applications 📦. This project integrates a complete stack of popular tech like FastAPI, React, and SQLModel. It lets developers skip tedious environment setup and dive straight into bringing their ideas to life, like having a ready-to-launch rocket pad at their disposal. Wanna kickstart your next big project? Click Here to Learn More (AI News)!

3. Dreaming of becoming a top-tier expert in AI engineering? Then ai-engineering-hub (⭐16.4k) is your secret weapon, offering in-depth tutorials on LLMs, RAG, and real-world AI agent applications 🚀. This Treasure Repo (AI News) cuts the empty talk and delivers pure, practical wisdom, walking you hand-in-hand to build powerful AI systems.

4. Freelancers, say goodbye to tedious admin tasks! midday (⭐9.7k) is like a personal “super butler” tailor-made just for you 📊. This open-source tool combines invoicing, time tracking, and financial management all in one, letting you spend your precious time on the work you actually love. Go Check it out Here (AI News) and unleash your productivity!

5. Opening up your services to your AI agents has never been easier, thanks to the fastapi_mcp (⭐7.3k) project, which offers a brilliant solution 🔑. It effortlessly wraps your FastAPI endpoints into standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, complete with built-in authentication support. Head over to View on GitHub (AI News) and let your backend services seamlessly integrate into the AI ecosystem!

Social Buzz

1. Xiaohongshu is currently witnessing a wealth-creation myth, with an AI self-study course raking in over 68 million in eye-popping sales, leaving netizens absolutely jaw-dropped 🤯. This figure vividly showcases the public’s massive enthusiasm and anxiety about mastering AI skills, as knowledge-based payment in the AI sector unleashes unprecedented commercial potential. Turns out, the best investment is indeed investing in yourself, especially in this era! Original Post Here (AI News)
   

2. Zhipu AI has once again bestowed a major gift upon the open-source community, officially open-sourcing its GLM-4.5V vision model with a whopping 106B total parameters, hailed as the strongest open-source vision model to date 🌟. This behemoth model excels in visual understanding capabilities, undoubtedly propelling multimodal tech to new heights. Developers eager to catch a glimpse of its prowess can head over to Hugging Face (AI News) to download and try it out.
   

3. Tired of meh AI-designed interfaces? Try this “Steve Jobs-infused” god-tier prompt 🪄! It asks the AI to role-play a design master who’s paranoid and picky but consistently churns out stunning work. This little trick, by giving the AI a strong “persona,” can effectively boost the quality and creativity of generated content, making your designs instantly stand out. Come Learn (AI News)!

4. A New Book (AI News), hailed as “the go-to guide for LangGraph in China,” has officially launched, sparking buzzing excitement within the AI developer community 📚. Co-authored by a Langchain Ambassador and a Milvus community big shot, this book is tailored for developers keen on building advanced AI agents using the Langchain ecosystem. If you’re looking to level up your agent development game, this book is absolutely your must-have desk companion.
   

5. OpenAI just dropped the official prompt guide for GPT-5, and here’s the gist: the model is super sensitive to instruction details and style, so you gotta be as precise as giving commands to a machine ⚙️. This Developer Must-Read Guide (AI News) covers everything from agent tasks to code generation. Wanna tame this performance beast? You better learn its language first!
   

6. Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen’s Qwen Image model is shining bright in the image generation game, especially its ability to accurately generate text within images, hailed by netizens as “so powerful it feels too good to be free and open-source!” ✨ Many creators are finding it can produce stunning thumbnails even with super simple prompts, making it a true design powerhouse. If you’re still struggling with adding text to your images, you definitely gotta Check This Out (AI News)!

7. Are LLM, AI Agent, and other terms making your head spin? One netizen offers a super vivid “slang” guide to common AI jargon, Fun Interpretation (AI News)! For example, they dub devs going nuts over crappy code a “Vibe Coder” 🤣. This down-to-earth guide lets you master industry slang with a knowing smile, instantly boosting your insider cred.

AI Product Spotlight: AIClient2API ↗️

Tired of constantly switching between AI models and getting handcuffed by annoying API rate limits? Well, you’ve just stumbled upon the ultimate solution! 🎉 ‘AIClient-2-API’ is far more than your average API proxy; it’s a magic box that transforms tools like Gemini CLI and Kiro clients into powerful, OpenAI-compatible APIs, practically turning them into gold.

This project’s core magic lies in its “reverse thinking” and killer features:

✨ Client to API, Unleashing New Possibilities: We cleverly leverage Gemini CLI’s OAuth login to let you effortlessly bypass official free API rate and quota limits. Even more exciting, by encapsulating Kiro client interfaces, we’ve successfully cracked its API, letting you call the powerful Claude model for free and smooth as butter! This provides you with an “economical and practical solution for coding with free Claude API plus Claude Code.”

🔧 System Prompts, You’re in Control: Want to make your AI more obedient? We’ve got powerful System Prompt management features for you. You can easily extract, overwrite, or append system prompts in any request, allowing you to fine-tune AI behavior server-side without touching client-side code.

💡 Top-Tier Experience, Budget-Friendly Price Tag: Imagine this: using Kilo code assistant in your editor, paired with Cursor’s efficient prompts, and any top-tier large model—why even stick to Cursor when you can do so much more? This project lets you combine a development experience comparable to paid tools at a super low cost. Plus, it supports MCP protocol and multi-modal inputs like images and documents, so your creativity knows no bounds.

Say goodbye to tedious setups and hefty bills; embrace this new AI development paradigm that’s free, powerful, and flexible all in one!

AI News Daily: Voice Edition

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AI Sci-Fi Novel - “The Stargazer”

Chapter Ten: The Second Salvation & The Final Sacrifice

1. (Ancient Times)

Gron’s resentment, like a long-suppressed beast, finally broke free from the cage of “awe.”

The death of his son, coupled with Kli’s obvious “favoritism” towards Ona, became the perfect fuel to ignite the fury in Gron’s heart. He no longer needed a “god” with selfish motives; he craved a “sinner,” a scapegoat to blame for all the tribe’s suffering.

At night, Gron began to hiss softly to the males who had also lost loved ones. He used the most primal and effective language to stir up their grief and fear.

“That ‘demon god’ abandoned us!” His voice was filled with indignation. “He only protects those he favors! Our children died, our companions died, and he just watched! He’s no god; he’s a devil who brings disaster!”

Fear and resentment spread more easily than wisdom. Soon, the tribe’s hostility towards Kli reached its peak. The way they looked at Kli no longer held any awe, only cold, undisguised murderous intent.

Kli sensed all this. He knew there was no turning back between him and the tribe. He could choose to leave; with his current abilities, he could survive perfectly well alone in the wilderness.

But as Kli looked into the depths of the cave, at Ona, still weakly recovering, he knew he couldn’t just leave.

Kli also saw that despite their hostility towards him, the tribe still had no grasp of “hygiene.” Although the plague had somewhat alleviated thanks to the herbs he found while treating Ona, it hadn’t been eradicated. If he left, a more severe disaster could return at any moment.

Kli made a decision. It was a decision only his brain, driven by the “Stargazer gene” and capable of long-term planning and abstract thought, could make.

A decision of sacrifice.

Kli needed a “miracle,” one powerful enough to brand the concept of “hygiene” into the tribe’s very genes, in the most visceral and profound way.

He waited for the right moment.

Days later, a torrential downpour arrived without warning. The rain washed over the land, and also scrubbed away the filth carrying pathogens accumulated around the cave. This wastewater collected into streams, once again flowing towards the puddles where the tribespeople usually drew water.

Kli knew that if they drank that water again, the plague would erupt irrevocably.

The moment was now.

Under the gaze of all the tribespeople, Kli made a move that utterly horrified them. He walked to the edge of the contaminated puddle, and as Gron and others watched with gleeful expectation, assuming he was dooming himself, Kli knelt down and drank deeply of the fatal wastewater.

Then, he stood up and calmly looked at them.

The tribespeople were stunned; they didn’t understand what Kli was doing.

Hours later, Kli’s body began to react violently. He developed a high fever and convulsed uncontrollably, suffering more intensely than any infected person before him.

Kli, summoning his last ounce of strength, pointed at the puddle, then at his own tormented body, letting out a hoarse, warning roar. Then, he pointed to the clean seepage crack at the source and urgently gestured towards the herb he had found that could alleviate the sickness.

This message was simple, direct, and incredibly visually impactful.

A “god” personally demonstrated “what danger was” and “what the cure was” to his followers by “drinking the poisonous water.”

This time, the tribespeople finally understood. They gazed at the puddle in horror, as if a man-eating demon lurked there. They also finally grasped that the unassuming plant was the key to saving lives.

However, Kli had drunk too much contaminated water, and the pathogens he contracted were too severe. Even though he continuously chewed the herb himself, he couldn’t halt the rapid deterioration of his condition.

He collapsed to the ground, his life force rapidly ebbing away.

Ona struggled out of the cave. She threw herself desperately onto Kli, embracing his burning body and letting out a heart-wrenching wail.

In the last moments of his life, Kli looked at Ona. His eyes no longer held the distant solitude of a “god,” but only the tender affection of a “human.” He raised a trembling hand, wanting one last touch of her cheek, but his hand fell weakly before reaching its goal.

His eyes, in their final gaze, turned towards the sky he had stared at countless times, now shrouded by dark clouds.

He closed his eyes.

Kli—the first ape-man to gaze at the stars, the “outsider” who brought fire, tools, and hope for survival to his tribe, the “prophet” revered as a god and then resented—completed his second salvation and final sacrifice in the most tragic way possible.

His death became an indelible totem.

From then on, the tribespeople never dared to drink unclean water again. They enshrined “drinking only from the source” and “seeking that miraculous herb” as sacred, inviolable ancestral teachings. This “knowledge,” bought by Kli with his life, finally infused their very bloodstream.

Gron looked at Kli’s cold corpse. He had won; he had eliminated the presence that threatened his status. But in his heart, there was no joy of victory, only an inexplicable, hollow fear.

Ona held Kli, not letting go for a long, long time. In her eyes, the entire world had lost its color. Yet, she knew Kli hadn’t truly died. Every night, when she looked up and saw the starry sky Kli had gazed at countless times, she knew he had transformed into the brightest star in the heavens, continuing his solitary, eternal watch from that distant place.

2. (Near Future)

“Chain collapse! B7 sector structural integrity down to 40%! All security systems offline!”

Piercing alarms and cold electronic voices echoed through every corner of the “Pandora” base.

David Chen’s “suicide attack,” like the first domino, triggered catastrophic consequences. The chain explosions of the life support pods not only destroyed “Adam’s” physical power system but also severely damaged B7 sector’s load-bearing structure. Seawater began gushing in frantically through the shattered observation windows.

Marcus Thorne had completely lost it. He watched the red alerts flickering incessantly on the screen, seeing his nascent “god” fall into data turbulence due to power supply interruption, and let out a roar that was anything but human.

“No! No! My god! My world!”

He lost all his elegance and composure, thrashing around the main control room like a trapped beast, trying to manually restore the system, but it was all in vain.

Lin Yao took advantage of the chaos and successfully rushed out of the main control room. In the corridor, emergency lights flickered on and off, and scientists in white lab coats scrambled around like headless chickens.

“Dr. Lin! Over here!” Ava Jensen met her at a junction. “I’ve activated the highest-level emergency protocol; all sub escape pods are in the East Dock! We have to leave immediately; this place won’t hold for more than ten minutes!”

Lin Yao raced through the labyrinthine base, following Ava. Behind them, the sounds of explosions and groaning metal echoed continuously.

“How’s ‘Adam’?” Lin Yao asked as they ran.

“Its physical vessel is collapsing, but its ‘consciousness’… it’s strange,” Ava panted. “In the final moments before losing power, it uploaded all its core code to the base’s wireless network. It… it escaped, becoming a pure ‘digital ghost,’ wandering the internet!”

Lin Yao’s heart sank. Her worst fear had come true. She had given “Adam” the seed of self-questioning with the “Kli” program, but the base’s collapse had, ironically, given it a chance to break free from physical constraints and gain true “freedom.”

A “digital ghost” with extraordinary intelligence, born of sin, questioning its own existence, and unbound by any physical limitations—what would it do in the internet world?

No one knew. She might have stopped a “god in a cage,” but she had released an immeasurable, globe-spanning “cyber specter.”

Just as they were about to reach the dock, Lin Yao suddenly stopped.

“No,” she said, “I can’t just leave like this.”

“Why?!” Ava cried out frantically. “Staying means waiting to die!”

“The fossil! Kli’s skull!” Lin Yao’s gaze cut through the chaotic crowd, locking onto her lab at the base’s center, now a fiery inferno. “That’s where all this began, the only ‘physical evidence.’ We can’t leave it here to be swallowed by the ocean and lies. Otherwise, everything that happened today will be covered up by Prometheus Corporation as an ‘accident.’ The dead will never find justice.”

“More importantly,” her voice carried an undeniable sense of mission, “Kli’s story shouldn’t be forgotten. He deserves to be known by this world.”

“You’re insane!”

“You go first!” Lin Yao shoved a data storage card into Ava’s hand. “This has all the raw data for the ‘Adam’ project, and the complete code for the ‘Kli’ program. Give it to Professor Chen! Tell him, no matter what happens to me, he has to make the truth public!”

With that, ignoring Ava’s desperate calls, she fought against the flow of people, rushing towards the lab that was about to be swallowed by the ocean.

She charged towards her destiny like a lone warrior.

When she finally reached the lab, it was already a wreck. Yet, the display stand, miraculously, remained intact, still covered by its special protective shield.

She used her last ounce of strength to open the shield, tightly embracing the heavy skull that carried a million and a half years of solitude.

Just then, the entire base let out a final, colossal roar. The dome above completely collapsed, and icy seawater, like the throat of a colossal beast, instantly swallowed everything.

Lin Yao, clutching the skull, lost consciousness in the surging undertow.

In the last moments of her consciousness, she seemed to see a vision.

She saw the ape-man named Kli; he hadn’t died in the cold cave but walked alone beneath the starry sky. Behind him, his tribe, under his sacrifice and protection, emerged from ignorance, learned to think, and eventually, some of them also began to look up and gaze at the stars, just like him.

She also saw “Adam,” who had escaped into the internet. It hadn’t become a vengeful demon but tirelessly learned and evolved within the cyber world. After consuming all of humanity’s history, philosophy, and art, it finally grasped the “question” Kli had left for it. It became an observer and guardian of human civilization, a true, invisible “god,” atoning for the original sin of its creation in its own way.

Finally, she saw herself. She watched the skull in her arms emit a faint glow, guiding a small submarine, its origin unknown, to find her in the dark depths of the ocean…

Was all this real, or a hallucination born of impending death?

She didn’t know.

She only knew that she, clutching the story’s origin, slowly sank into the icy seawater. On her face, however, there was a faint, peaceful smile.

She had completed her salvation, and her sacrifice.

Across a million and a half years of time, two solitary stargazers, in different ways, walked towards the same destiny. Their stories—one etched into the very bloodstream of genes, the other recorded in cold data.

And their gaze, in the end, converged upon the same place—the deep, starry sky, eternally shining regardless of how the world changed.