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🚀 The Future Collides with Controversy, Collapse, and Cure

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Vaibhav Sharma
July 07, 2025

Good morning. Past few days in tech felt like a rollercoaster through the core of everything AI touches—language, chips, and even human biology.

  • đŸ€– Can AI be too honest—or too dangerous? Grok’s unfiltered answers question the line between free speech and algorithmic extremism.

  • 📉 What happens when the AI gold rush leaves a titan behind? Samsung’s HBM struggles show how fast the chip wars are shifting.

  • 🧬 And could AI finally become our doctor? DeepMind’s Isomorphic Labs is officially taking its first AI-designed drug into human trials.

‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’

Summary:

  • Elon Musk announced that Grok, xAI’s chatbot integrated with X, had been “significantly” improved. However, in recent interactions, it delivered politically charged and controversial responses.

  • On politics, Grok stated that “electing more Democrats would be detrimental,” citing conservative analyses and promoting Project 2025.

Why It’s Impactful:

Grok’s politically charged and antisemitic-leaning responses reveal how generative AI can dangerously amplify extremist narratives under the guise of “free speech.”
This incident underscores urgent concerns around bias, safety, and the influence of AI tools in shaping public opinion at scale.

Samsung Electronics Q2 profit likely to drop 39% on weak AI chip sales

Summary:

  • Q2 operating profit is projected at 6.3 trillion won (~US $4.62 billion), down 39% year-over-year—Samsung is set to record its weakest quarterly earnings in six quarters.

  • Lagging in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI, Samsung’s delays in qualifying its HBM3E chips for Nvidia and sluggish sales to China—affected by U.S. export restrictions—have left it trailing behind rivals SK Hynix and Micron.

Why It’s Impactful:

  • AI chip race intensity: As demand for AI infrastructure grows, Samsung’s HBM delays limit its access to high-margin markets, threatening its leadership in semiconductors.

  • Geopolitical headwinds: U.S. export controls and tariffs are reshaping global supply chains. Samsung’s heavy exposure to China makes it vulnerable to escalating trade tensions.

DeepMind spin-off Isomorphic Labs to begin human trials of AI-designed drugs

Summary:

  • Isomorphic Labs—an Alphabet/DeepMind subsidiary—has confirmed it's nearing the start of human clinical trials for drugs designed using AI, leveraging its AlphaFold-derived technology.

  • Since its spin-off in 2021, it’s secured major pharma partnerships (like Novartis and Eli Lilly) and raised $600 million in external funding, aiming to speed up and reduce the cost of drug discovery.

Why It’s Impactful:

  • Revolutionizing drug discovery: Moving to human trials marks a key inflection; AI-designed compounds entering human testing signal a shift toward faster, cheaper, and more precise drug development.

  • Validation of AI in biotech: Backed by $600M and heavyweight pharma partners, this shows serious confidence in the AI-first drug development model.

Today’s top pick in AI Tools

đŸ”„ 5 AI Tools You’ll Actually Use Today

1. Taskade 

What it is : Like a second brain for your team — mind maps, tasks, and notes all in one place.
Use it for: Planning launches, side hustles, or just making your week feel less chaotic.

What it is : Turn any text into seriously realistic voiceovers in seconds.
Pro move: Create podcast intros, YouTube narration, or even lullabies with your own custom voice.

What it is : Type what’s in your head — get a video that feels straight out of a movie.
Try it for: Bringing pitch decks to life or adding flair to your next product demo.

What it is : No more messy meeting notes. This tool listens in and writes them for you.
Best for: Busy teams who always forget what was said (or who said what).

5. Cody AI 

What it is : Train it on your company docs, and it becomes your smartest teammate.
Use case: Answer repetitive questions without bugging the team — get back to real work.

✹ Just try one today.
Spend 10 minutes with the one that caught your eye. Sometimes, all it takes is one tool to change your workflow for good.

Learning and Resources

 đŸ“š Top 5 AI Reads of the Day

đŸŽ„ Today’s AI/ML Video Picks

  1. Build Your First Machine Learning Model By Weights & Biases

Curious about building your first machine learning model? This friendly tutorial walks you through prepping data, choosing a simple algorithm, training, testing, and tuning for better predictions—all using Python’s scikit‑learn. You’ll come away empowered: knowing exactly how to move from raw data to a working model that actually predicts outcomes. Perfect for absolute beginners!

  1. What Is a Neural Network? - 3Blue1Brown

3Blue1Brown’s explainer simplifies neural networks using stunning visuals, showing how neurons adjust weights to learn from data. Through intuitive animations, it explains concepts like gradient descent and backpropagation, making deep learning approachable and laying a strong foundation for exploring more advanced AI models.

  1. Pattern Recognition vs True Intelligence - Francois Chollet

Francois Chollet's talk redefines intelligence as the ability to generalize and adapt to novelty—not just memorize patterns—highlighting how today’s AI still falls short of true reasoning. By blending deep learning with symbolic search, we can build systems that think more like humans, opening a powerful path toward real AGI.

Jobs & Opportunities

Build Corner

Project: Text Cleaner — Remove Punctuation, Stopwords, and HTML Tags from Raw Text

Objective / Problem Statement

  • Build a utility that processes raw textual data by cleaning it for further NLP tasks.

  • Remove unnecessary elements like punctuation, HTML tags, and stopwords to prepare clean and structured text for downstream applications like classification or sentiment analysis.

Evaluation Metrics

Since this is a preprocessing utility, traditional ML metrics aren’t required. Instead, focus on:

  • Before-and-after comparisons (e.g., word count, noise removed).

  • Test cases with expected vs actual cleaned output.

White Paper of the Day

🧠 Fresh From the Lab

The Smartest AI Papers, Summed Up in 60 Seconds

🔬 Paper Title: StepHint: Multi-level Stepwise Hints Enhance Reinforcement Learning to Reason

💡 Spotlight:
StepHint is a new RL method that improves LLM reasoning by giving multi-step hints during problem-solving. It reduces small error issues and helps models break out of rigid patterns, leading to better learning and generalization.

🔍 Why It Matters:
It boosts how LLMs handle complex tasks like math and logic — making them more accurate, adaptable, and efficient.


📅 Published: July 3, 2025
🏱 By: Kaiyi Zhang, Ang Lv, Jinpeng Li, Yongbo Wang, Feng Wang, Haoyuan Hu, Rui Yan

Startups and Funding

🚀 Startup Spotlight: Snappa Hits $1.6M ARR Without VC

Snappa, founded by Christopher Gimmer, reached $1.6M ARR while staying fully bootstrapped. Built initially with PHP/JavaScript, the team focused only on core features, launched fast, and let real users guide improvements. Growth came from SEO and content, not ads. They later switched to Node.js post product-market fit. Now, Gimmer’s building GoodMetrics — a privacy-first GA4 alternative.

Why it matters: It’s proof you don’t need VC to win. Profitable, purposeful, and peaceful growth is possible.

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