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$200M Pentagon deal for OpenAI; MiniMax-M1 raises context bar to 1 million tokens; Moonshot AI’s Kimi-Dev-72B tops software benchmarks.
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Top AI & SaaS Tools
Top AI & Tech News
AI Art Spotlight
Prompt of the Day: Social Media Automation Prompt
AI Video Tutorial
F-R-E-E AI Course of the Day: Machine Learning by Harvard
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OpenAI
OpenAI Secures $200 Million Pentagon Contract for AI Tools in Defense and Cybersecurity
OpenAI has secured a $200M contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, marking a major step in integrating AI into national security. Running through July 2026, the partnership will focus on advancing AI for both military operations and enterprise systems.
Details:
The contract primarily covers administrative operations, including healthcare services for military personnel and their families, along with program data management and proactive cyber defense systems
This collaboration represents OpenAI's first major government partnership, coming after the company removed its previous ban on military applications and following their alliance with defense company Anduril Industries
The trend extends beyond OpenAI, as other major AI companies including Google, Meta, and Anthropic have similarly adjusted their policies to accommodate government and military applications
This partnership signals a transformative moment in military-tech cooperation, highlighting how AI companies are increasingly aligning with national security interests.
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MiniMax
MiniMax-M1 Launches with Massive 1 Million Token Context Window
MiniMax's latest breakthrough, the MiniMax-M1 model, advances open-source AI with powerful context handling and highly efficient training—raising the bar for community-driven AI development.
Details:
MiniMax-M1 handles 1M tokens in context and outputs up to 80K—surpassing GPT-4’s 128K limit and matching Gemini 2.5 Pro, allowing full book series processing in one go
Using reinforcement learning, Mixture-of-Experts, and lightning attention, MiniMax trained the model for just $534,700—far less than DeepSeek R1’s 5–6M or GPT-4’s $100M+
It scores 86% on AIME 2024, performs well in coding tasks (65% LiveCodeBench, 56% SWE-bench), and runs on only 25% of the compute used by similar models
This open-source release under the Apache 2.0 license represents a significant democratization of advanced AI technology.
Top AI & SaaS Tools
Jupitrr (Life-time Deal): Turn talking footage into engaging branded videos with automatic subtitles, B-rolls, animations, and more
Google Audio Overview: Create a NotebookLM-style podcast that summarizes and discusses your search results in a clear, conversational way [F-R-E-E]
Wonderish: Describe what you want to build, and the AI automatically creates beautiful websites, landing pages, funnels, and more [F-R-E-E]
VisionFX: An all-in-one AI creative studio that lets you generate images, videos, voice, and much more
Vui: Generate multi-speaker conversations with non-speech sounds (e.g., laughter); a competitor to Google’s NotebookLM for audio generation [F-R-E-E]
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Top AI & Tech News
Moonshot AI released Kimi-Dev-72B, an open-source coding model that outperforms DeepSeek R1, V3, and Devstral on software tasks
TikTok released updates to its Symphony AI suite, adding image-to-video, text-to-video, and AI avatar marketing tools for advertising content
OpenAI and Microsoft are clashing over control and rules, putting their important partnership at risk
Adobe launched a Firefly mobile app for iPhone and Android, bringing its generative AI image and video tools to mobile devices
AI Art Spotlight
Model: Midjourney V7
Prompt:
Hiphop album cover photo. A cat taking a selfie in the mirror inside a modern grocery supermarket in white with green accents. The cat is holding a red apple and trying to throw it at its reflection on the round, white, metallic room reflector. It is wearing modern oversized streetwear. --ar 3:4 --stylize 50 --v 7Prompt of the Day
Social Media Marketing Automation Prompt 😲
This prompt automates audience research, strategy creation, trend discovery, viral hook generation, multi-platform content writing, and a full 30-day content calendar.
Top AI Video Tutorial
How to Use AI to Find a $1M Idea [Reddit, Claude]
The video introduces a step-by-step, AI-powered system for quickly generating and validating business ideas in core markets such as health, wealth, and relationships.
Complimentary AI Course of the Day
Data Science: Machine Learning by Harvard
In this course, you will learn popular machine learning algorithms, principal component analysis, and regularization by building a movie recommendation system. You will also learn about training data, and how to use a set of data to discover potentially predictive relationships.