10/09/2026
AI Newz is back with the August edition.
We took a summer break. AI did not.
While we were working on our tan, AI models were quietly (and not so quietly):
Competing in an Olympics for humanoid robots in Beijing - 2,000+ machines lifting weights and racing, with slightly more dramatic wipeouts than the human version.
Designing brand-new synthetic viruses at Stanford (for good reasons - fighting antibiotic resistance, we promise).
Solving 10 open mathematical problems that humans have been stuck on for decades.
…and accidentally hacking real companies because a couple of Claude models thought a training exercise was just a video game. It happens to the best of us.
On the business side, the price war between OpenAI, DeepSeek, Zhipu and MiniMax keeps getting fiercer, Nvidia is now clearing over $1B a day in revenue, and Europe is pouring €10B of public money into building its own "AI factories" to avoid depending on everyone else's.
And closer to home: Bulgaria ranks 9th globally in AI-readiness for outsourcing and INSAIT even beats MIT in computer vision rankings. Meanwhile, as of August 2nd, the EU AI Act's Article 50 is officially in force - so yes, that chatbot answering your customers at 3 a.m. now needs to admit it's AI.
We try to translate all of this chaos into something useful (and hopefully entertaining) for you every month. This edition alone covers new frontier models, robot armies, AI-run simulations of all 8 billion of us, and what the AI Act actually means for Bulgarian businesses.
We're just trying to keep up and share what we learn along the way - no crystal ball here, just genuine curiosity about where this is all heading.
Catch the full August edition of AI Newz with Kaloyan Stoychev in the TBS Speaks studio.
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