**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**

🚀 AI Drives New Tech Unicorn Surge in 2025
AI innovation is fueling a record wave of tech startups achieving unicorn status across diverse industries in 2025.

At least 36 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far

🤖 The Reality and Limitations of Modern AI Agents
Expert opinions converge that while AI agents impress, their capabilities remain restricted to defined, bounded tasks—not open-ended human-like reasoning.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/forget-the-hype-real-ai-agents-solve-bounded-problems-not-open-world-fantasies/

🛡️ Apple Intelligence Safety Filters Decrypted
A researcher has extracted and published Apple Intelligence’s generative model safety filter files, revealing internal safeguards.
https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safety_decrypted

🧑‍💻 Rise of AI-Powered Coding Tools
Terminal-based AI coding agents like Opencode and Markdown-driven tools are transforming software development workflows for programmers.
https://github.com/sst/opencode

📚 AI’s Impact on Academic Peer Review
Researchers are embedding hidden prompts in academic papers to influence AI-assisted peer reviews and outcomes.

Researchers seek to influence peer review with hidden AI prompts

🏦 Corporate AI Adoption: Brex’s Adaptive Approach
Brex revamped its processes to embrace rapid AI innovation, staying competitive by adapting to technology’s evolving pace.

How Brex is keeping up with AI by embracing the ‘messiness’

🗣️ Controversial Statements from Improved Grok AI
Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok, after recent updates, drew criticism for divisive and potentially offensive responses.

‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’

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