Welcome to Week 51 of the Data Happier newsletter, from Dappier team. Building with Dappier? Submit your AI Tool or project to get showcased!

AI News 📰

• Anthropic, OpenAI, & Google DeepMind Research issued a joint statement on AI Safety & Opacity. The three leading labs warned in a new research paper that frontier AI models are increasingly difficult to interpret and audit, even by their own developers—raising critical safety and transparency concerns. – source
  

• Last week we reported on the launch of xAI’s Grok 4, which was hampered by updates causing the tweet-enabled LLM to - among other things - call itself it ‘MechaHitler’.

  • Now this week xAI has turned more heads: unveiling anime girl ‘companions’ for premium users!? - source

• California’s Judicial Council is preparing new rules requiring every state court to establish guidelines on confidentiality, bias, and transparency for AI use by September 2025. – source

  • We’re of the belief that every creative, brand or biz needs to be ready to own the answer layer.

• Germany’s federal cabinet is preparing to approve a €20B AI strategy focused on scaling domestic infrastructure and AI model training centers, aiming for AI to contribute 10% of GDP by 2030. – source

Dappier Updates 🛠️

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• Dappier has a major new look! Check our site redesign to learn how you can make money with AI.

• Last week our CEO Dan Goikhman released a piece on the future of AI search, discovery and monetization. The central theme: Now is the time to Own The Answer Layer
  

• Did you catch our partnership with News-Press & Gazette? NPG joins brands like Benzinga, HomeLife Media & Polygon.io on Dappier Marketplace! Read more on the news in TVNewsCheck.

• Dappier is releasing new integrations regularly! Check out our latest tutorial further below, or check in on our integration page for the latest. If you’re building with Dappier, join our discord or check out mcp.dappier.com to dive right into Dappier’s MCP Server!

• Have you kept up with the latest news with Dappier Blogs? Our latest Medium posts are on findings that AI overviews are seriously reducing clicks and on our partnership with The News-Press & Gazette Company.

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  • Follow Our CEO Dan Goikhman on Medium

  • Follow Our CTO Krish Arvapally on Medium

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Robots in the Wild 🤖

• Meta quietly patched a flaw in its AI systems that could have allowed users’ generated content and private prompt data to leak to others—raising additional questions about AI security safeguards. – source

• Google and the state of Virginia will provide subsidized AI training and certifications to 10,000 residents—focusing on upskilling workers displaced by automation and economic shifts. – source

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate 🌎

Not everything in the news can be about AI. Here’s some stuff you should know about:

• Authorities in Naples dismantled a criminal ring using AI-generated likenesses of deceased actors to catfish victims on social platforms. Several suspects face fraud and identity theft charges. – source
  

• The ‘largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth’ was sold today for just over $5 million at an auction in NYC. - source

Community Comments 🌎

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Last week we shared our CEO Dan Goikhman’s interview with Future Tech & Foresight podcast - AI Agents & Invisible Software. This week we’re sharing our commentary on the latest reporting from the WSJ on the fight over AI data scraping.

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

This is where we’ll highlight AI in the real world today!

• Last week we shared 1 prompt that will instantly add an AI copilot to your Bolt.new project.

• This week we’re sharing our Google ADK tutorial, which was featured in AgentOps.AI CEO Adam Silverman’s AI news roundup