Hallucination Station: Issue 07

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🚀 This Weeks Top Stories in AI

🤖 Gemini Comes Home: Google Brings AI Deeper into Chrome

• Google is integrating Gemini directly into Chrome (U.S.) desktops first, adding features like multi-tab summarisation, “recall of visited pages”, webpage-wide context, and deeper links with Calendar, YouTube, Maps, plus Workspace surfacing.

• Free access is being broadened: many features previously behind paywalls are now available to all users; mobile rollout for iOS coming soon; Android already partially live.

• Google is planning more “agentic” tasks — letting Gemini actually act (e.g. shopping, booking, rescheduling) with user confirmations for higher-risk actions; contextual AI in omnibox/address bar is also in development.

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🧠 DeepSeek-R1: Teaching LLMs to Reason via Pure Reinforcement Learning

• DeepSeek-R1 (and its precursor DeepSeek-R1-Zero) trains large language models without human-annotated reasoning traces, using reinforcement learning rewards based solely on final answer correctness.

• The models naturally develop advanced reasoning strategies — including self-reflection, verification, and adaptive problem-solving behaviour — and outperform supervised learning baselines in math, coding and STEM benchmarks.

• DeepSeek-R1 also introduces stages to align reasoning with human preferences, improve readability (reducing language mixing), and release smaller distilled versions; limitations remain in structure output, prompt sensitivity, and efficiency.

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😬 Live Tech Fail: Zuckerberg’s Smart Glasses Stumble on Stage

• During Meta Connect 2025, two demo segments of the new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses flopped: first the cooking-assistant AI misinterpreted commands, then gesture-based video calling failed.

• Meta blamed “brutal WiFi” and a rare bug that caused the display to sleep at the wrong moment. The issues didn’t show up in rehearsals.

• Despite the embarrassments, Zuckerberg positioned the $799 glasses as a big step toward “agentic AI” wearables, and Meta insists the product works, promising fixes ahead of its late-September launch.

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⚖️ Italy Leads the EU: First Country to Pass Full-AI Law

• Italy has approved a sweeping law that aligns with (and goes alongside) the EU’s AI Act, introducing 1-5 year prison terms for causing harm via AI-generated/manipulated content like deepfakes.

• Stricter rules for transparency, human oversight, and sector-specific controls in health, education, justice, sport; children under 14 need parental consent for AI access.

• Law includes copyright protections for AI-assisted works (if they reflect real human creativity), and earmarks up to €1 billion in state-backed VC funding for innovation in AI, cybersecurity and telecom.

👉 Source: TechCrunch

🦄 AI Tip of the Week: Use AI as Your “First Draft Assistant”

Instead of asking AI for the final answer, use it to create quick first drafts — whether that’s an email, a product spec, a slide deck outline, or even code scaffolding.

• It saves you time by giving you a structured starting point.

• You stay in control by editing and refining, ensuring accuracy and your own voice.

• This turns AI into a productivity accelerator, not a replacement for your judgment.

🔥Meme-while in AI

(Coming next week - send me your favorite AI memes)

🏆Tool of the Week (not sponsored)

This one is for the producers and DJs out there. Bandlab’s stem isolator has been a gamechanger for me when it comes to bootlegging, remixing and sampling. Highly recommend for anyone who DJs or produces.

Did You Know? The first ever email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson—to himself. He used the “@” symbol to separate the user and computer name, a convention that became the foundation of modern email addresses.

Till next time,