Good morning. It’s Friday, June 20th.

On this day in tech history: In 1985, the backpropagation algorithm, critical for training neural networks, was gaining attention following its formalization by David E. Rumelhart, Geoffrey E. Hinton, and others in 1986 (with roots in earlier work). Around this date, conferences and papers were discussing neural network learning, laying foundational AI concepts for modern deep learning.

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• Vibe coder sells AI App for $80M

• Midjourney Animate Leads the AI Video Race

• 5 New AI Tools

• Latest AI Research Papers

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Solo-built AI app generator Base44 sells for $80M cash

Base44, a six-month-old AI startup founded by Israeli dev Maor Shlomo, has been acquired by Wix for $80 million in cash. The “vibe coding” platform turns text prompts into full-stack apps, complete with auth, storage, analytics, and more, targeting non-developers. Despite being bootstrapped, Base44 hit 250K users and posted $189K in profit last month, even while paying for Claude LLM usage.

The company grew via social momentum, not marketing. Wix gains a profitable, fast-scaling AI builder that plugs directly into its no-code suite. Shlomo cited scale limits as the reason for the exit. The deal highlights how prompt-native platforms with sharp LLM economics can reach acquisition velocity fast, without raising a dime. Read more.

Image-to-Video Tool Lands in Midjourney with Text-Controlled Motion

Midjourney has released its first video model, letting users animate images into 5-second clips using a web-based “Animate” tool. Users can control motion with text prompts or let the system handle it automatically. Each video can be extended by four seconds, up to four times. Motion intensity options affect both subject and camera behavior, with tradeoffs in accuracy.

External images are supported via “Start Frame” prompts. Output is 480p at 24fps, with no upscaling yet. Each job costs about 8× more than an image, though a “Video Relax Mode” offers slower, cheaper rendering. Founder David Holz frames it as a stepping stone toward real-time 3D simulation. Read more.

• OpenAI Rips Out the Prompt Layer, Starts Rewiring Models from Within

• Google amps up AI Mode, Veo 3, and stress tests Gemini across media

• The wildest claims revealed in The OpenAI Files 

• MiniMax Hits Google and OpenAI Hard with Cheap, High-Performance AI Models

• New test can help driverless cars make 'moral' decisions

• US Army appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs as Lt. Colonels

• Harvard scientist's new 'peace tech' tool uses AI to simulate leaders, avert wars

• Softbank's Son pitches $1 trillion US AI hub to TSMC and Trump team

• Watch: Humanoid robots are the ultimate deployment vector for AGI - Brett Adcock

• Adobe made a mobile app for its Firefly generative AI tools

• Chatterbox is a free open-source voice cloning model with emotional tone control

• Watch: OpenAI's Greg Brockman expects AIs to go from AI coworkers to AI managers: "the AI gives you ideas and gives you tasks to do"

• Nvidia, Foxconn in talks to deploy humanoid robots at Houston AI server making plant

• GenLayer launches a new method to incentivize people to market your brand using AI and blockchain

• Microsoft advances quantum error correction with a family of novel four-dimensional codes

• CRISPR deletes extra chromosome in Down syndrome, revives cell function

• 300 million humanoid robots are coming - and here are the companies that will benefit

• World's first flying humanoid robot uses AI and jet thrust to hover in test flight

• The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works

• AWS to introduce updated server CPU, new AI training chip

• Honda-backed Helm.ai unveils vision system for self-driving cars

• Apple eyes using AI to design its chips, technology executive says

• Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find

• New benchmark ranks AI agents on PhD tasks, Gemini 2.5 Pro leads on depth

• This humanoid robot could help with labor gaps, its developers say

📄 Sekai: A Video Dataset towards World Exploration

📄 GenRecal: Generation after Recalibration from Large to Small Vision-Language Models  ​​

📄 MultiFinBen: A Multilingual, Multimodal, and Difficulty-Aware Benchmark for Financial LLM Evaluation

📄 Scaling Test-time Compute for LLM Agents

📄 Embodied Web Agents: Bridging Physical-Digital Realms for Integrated Agent Intelligence

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