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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 14, 2025?

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Scrape Smarter, Not Harder: Let MCP and AI Write Your Next Scraper for You

TL;DR Build AI-powered web scrapers using MCP and Camoufox to automate HTML fetching, XPath generation, and script writing directly within your IDE.

By @pigivinci [ 11 Min read ]

In past episodes of The Lab series on The Web Scraping Club, we used Firecrawl to scrape the content of this newsletter, a vector DB like Pinecone to store the articles' markdown, and the OpenAI API to retrieve information and append the context to our prompt to get better answers...

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web3

Could Bitcoin Finally Be ‘Mooning’?

TL;DR The on-chain data has been flashing bull-mode for months but macro conditions have made this one of the weirdest climbs weve seen.

By @paulquickenden [ 4 Min read ]

But fast-forward to this weekend and we finally broke through with multiple new all-time highs. Cue the headlines, ‘hopium’ and hallelujah memes.

Still…the question lingers: why did it take so long?

Here’s a look at the current terrain, what’s happening under the surface and what might be coming next...

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machine-learning

Human Creativity in the Age of AI: To be Genuinely Curious and SPECTACULARLY Useless or Wrong

TL;DR AI currently has limits based on what we know. Humans can go beyond these limits, expanding their and others boundaries of knowledge.

By @mbalabash [ 7 Min read ]

Our imagination is the ability to remix what we already know and emphasize the elements that matter most for the time we live in, the context in which we act, or the problem we face.

But turns out AI is pretty good at remixing stuff too...

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machine-learning

Deepfake Detection: Neural Networks Are Fighting Themselves

TL;DR Cutting-edge diffusion models and text-to-video tools now make it easy to generate ultra-realistic fake videos from just a prompt.

By @dankhomenko [ 5 Min read ]

Deepfakes are very real, and this is not a “Black Mirror” episode. We can go as far as to recreate and duplicate people digitally, in a virtually untraceable manner. Ironically, what we need to fight deepfakes are other AI agents.

There’s a lot to be said in conclusion...

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New Research Breaks Down LLM ROI Across Business Use Cases

TL;DR A framework for evaluating language models by ROI, not just accuracy—helping businesses align AI choices with real financial outcomes.

By @largemodels [ 4 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Geraldo Xexéo, Programa de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação – COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil;

(2) Filipe Braida, Departamento de Ciência da Computação, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro;

Abstract and 1. Introduction

Basic premises for our models

Related Work..

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On This Day

Mariner 4 Flies By Mars

The spacecraft Mariner 4 made a close flyby of Mars, becoming the first successful mission to the Red Planet and returning the first close-up photographs of the planet's surface.

Poll Of the Week

Should regulators step in to curb the dominance of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI race?

As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind push the frontiers of artificial intelligence, critics warn of a growing concentration of power. Startups and open-source labs are struggling to compete, raising concerns about innovation bottlenecks, transparency, and long-term safety. Meanwhile, regulators in the U.S. and EU are beginning to scrutinize how AI models are developed, distributed, and monetized. Should governments intervene — or is the market still open enough to self-regulate?

Yes — the AI oligopoly is dangerous
No — competition will sort it out
Only if smaller labs are being actively blocked
Not sure — too early to tell

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