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AI just passed its PhD exam (seriously)
PLUS: New York Times breaks AI licensing barrier with Amazon
Jason Nguyen
June 02, 2025
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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. An AI system just pulled off something that sounds like science fiction - Zochi AI became the first machine to get a research paper accepted at ACL 2025, beating out 79% of human researchers.
If AI can now contribute original scientific insights at the highest academic levels, what does this mean for the future of human-machine collaboration in research?
In Today’s AI Daily:
First AI researcher earns academic peer review approval
Google brings powerful AI models offline to phones
Major newspaper makes first AI content licensing move
5 new AI tools & prompts
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
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The AI Daily: Google's new AI Edge Gallery app brings Hugging Face AI models directly to Android devices, allowing users to run powerful AI tools completely offline without cloud connections.
Key details:
Download and test various AI models for image questions, chat, and code generation.
"Prompt Lab" feature offers templates for summarizing, rewriting, and generating content.
Performance varies by device hardware and model size - larger models run slower.
Alpha release available through GitHub with Apache 2.0 open source license.
Developer community feedback welcomed as Google refines the experience.
Why it matters: Running AI directly on your device means more privacy and better use in places with bad internet. This early version shows Google’s push to make AI tools easier to use for everyone, not just those with fast cloud access.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES & AMAZON
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The AI Daily: The New York Times just signed its first AI licensing deal with Amazon, giving the tech giant permission to use NYT content in its platforms and train AI systems.
Key details:
The deal covers NYT news articles, NYT Cooking recipes, and sports content from The Athletic.
Amazon can show real-time summaries and clips in Alexa smart speakers, with credit to NYT.
Money details weren’t shared, but the agreement gives NYT new ways to make money.
NYT can offer subscriptions to people who find its content through Amazon’s AI tools.
This comes while NYT is still suing Microsoft and OpenAI for using its content without permission.
Why it matters: One of the biggest names in journalism is now working with AI instead of fighting it. This move shows how news companies can get paid for their content while keeping control. It might encourage other big publishers to make similar deals.
AI BREAKTHROUGHS
INTOLOGY AI
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The AI Daily: Intology’s Zochi AI just made history by becoming the first AI to get a research paper accepted at ACL 2025 — the world’s top conference for language tech. It’s a major moment for AI in science.
Key details:
Zochi’s paper, “Tempest,” was approved for ACL’s main event, which only accepts 21% of submissions (most workshops accept 60–70%)
The paper scored 4.0 in the review process, ranking in the top 8.2% of all entries to this elite A* conference.
Zochi handled the full research process on its own — reading studies, writing the paper, and submitting it — with barely any human help.
ACL is the #1 conference for natural language processing and one of the top 40 across all science fields.
Intology will offer Zochi as a research assistant through a beta launch.
Why it matters: This is the first time an AI has matched the quality of research done by top PhD students. As AI starts producing real science, it could speed up discoveries in many areas and help researchers solve tough problems even faster.
FAST TRACKS
🗞️ What Matters in AI Right Now?
Google DeepMind introduced MedGemma, their most capable open model for multimodal medical text and image comprehension, available now as part of Health AI Developer Foundations.
Salesforce introduced CRMArena-Pro, the first multi-turn, enterprise-grade benchmark for LLM agents, built with a synthetic dataset for complex, interconnected business records.
Greptile launched a major update to its AI code review bot, including long-term memory, context sources via MCP, highly scoped rules, and simplified pricing.
Leonardo AI launched Omni Editing, powered by FLUX.1 Kontext and GPT-Image-1, allowing users to edit any image with a simple prompt within the viewer.
ElevenLabs introduced Conversational AI 2.0, enabling the building of voice agents with a new turn-taking model, language switching, and multicharacter mode.
🧰 AI Tools of the Day
🕸️ Apify: Scrape web data to train or fine-tune AI models easily.
✍️ Phrasly.: Rephrase AI text to sound human and bypass detectors.
🧠 Monica: All-in-one AI assistant for chat, writing, and coding tasks.
🧱 Tripo3D: Generate 3D models from text or images in seconds.
🎬 Vidalgo: Create viral vertical videos with AI, no editing skills needed.
AI PROMPTS
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You are an expert marketing consultant. Your task is to conduct a comprehensive market segmentation analysis for [PRODUCT/SERVICE].
#GOAL:
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