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The AI news for July 17th, 2025 Here are the details of the day's selected top stories: Softbank plans trillions of AI agents to replace humans Source: https://www.heise.de/news/Softbank-1-000-KI-Agenten-ersetzen-1-Arbeitsplatz-10490298.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.themen.k%C3%BCnstliche+intelligenz.beitrag.beitrag California to use AI to combat power outages Source: https://www.heise.de/news/Als-erster-US-Bundesstaat-will-Kalifornien-mit-KI-gegen-Stromausfaelle-kaempfen-10489575.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.themen.k%C3%BCnstliche+intelligenz.beitrag.beitrag Mistral Voxtral surpasses Whisper in speech recognition and is much cheaper Source: https://the-decoder.de/mistral-voxtral-uebertrifft-whisper-bei-spracherkennung-und-ist-dabei-viel-guenstiger/ Meta reportedly scores two more high-profile OpenAI researchers Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/meta-reportedly-scores-two-more-high-profile-openai-researchers/