One-Minute Daily AI News 6/29/2025

1. China’s biggest public AI drop since DeepSeek, Baidu’s open source Ernie, is about to hit the market.[1]
2. ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ AI provision brings together an unexpected group of critics.[2]
3. A bumbling game of robot soccer was a breakthrough for embodied AI.[3]
4. MIT CSAIL researchers combined GenAI and a physics simulation engine to refine robot designs. The result: a machine that out-jumped a robot designed by humans.[4]

Sources:

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/29/china-biggest-ai-drop-since-deepseek-baidus-ernie-to-hit-market.html

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/big-beautiful-bill-ai-moratorium-ted-cruz-pass-vote-rcna215111

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/world/china/bumbling-game-robot-soccer-was-breakthrough-embodied-ai-rcna215780

[4] https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-help-robots-jump-higher-land-safely-0627