GPT-5 incoming, Musk looks to revive Vine & more (July 25, 2025)

Happy Friday!

Today’s newsletter is stacked: Cursor launches a bug-catching agent, GPT-5 is just weeks away, and Cognition (yes, the team behind Devin) is gunning for a $10B valuation. Meanwhile, Elon Musk wants to revive Vine, and AI is now designing personalized cancer treatments. Let’s dig in.

🚀 Product Launches & Breakthroughs

🐛 Cursor Bugbot Autoreviews Your Code

Cursor just unveiled Bugbot, an automated code reviewer that scans pull requests for bugs and vulnerabilities before they hit production. It acts like a junior engineer who never sleeps, and early users are reporting over 50% resolution rates. It's a small but mighty step toward fully autonomous dev tooling.

🤖 GPT-5 Drops in August, Altman Says It’ll "Make You Feel Useless"

OpenAI’s next-gen model, GPT-5, is set to launch in August. It will merge the reasoning capabilities of the o3 series with advanced language modeling into one unified system. Sam Altman called it a “here it is” moment, noting the model solved problems that made him feel “useless relative to the AI.”

🧬 AI Builds Cancer-Targeting Proteins in Weeks

A team at the Technical University of Denmark created an AI system that designs proteins to help T cells hunt down cancer cells. It uses multiple models, including AlphaFold2, to go from concept to tested molecule in just weeks. The future of personalized cancer treatment is looking faster and smarter.

🧠 Valuations, Revivals & AI Memory

🎬 Elon Musk Teases Vine Revival, But “In AI Form”

Elon Musk says the cult-favorite video app Vine might make a comeback...with an AI twist. The IP is still owned by X (formerly Twitter), and Musk dropped the hint without elaborating further. Expect AI-generated micro-content, nostalgia, and chaos if this actually ships.

💸 Cognition (Makers of Devin) Chases $10B Valuation

Cognition, the company behind AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly raising $300M at a $10B valuation. Devin wowed the tech world earlier this year by completing entire software projects autonomously. Now, Cognition is emerging as a leader in the agentic AI space with big investors lining up.

🧠 Memories.ai Remembers Entire Video Archives

Ex-Meta researchers are building a video AI memory system called Memories.ai that can remember and understand entire archives. It’s designed to help marketers, researchers, and creators query videos like you would a Google Doc. Think ChatGPT, but for your video library, with long-term memory included.

🧰 Tools of the Day

• Clientpulse – Group customer tickets by root cause
• Tarly – Generate a personal portfolio site from your resume
• Ash – AI-powered mental health assistant

🧠 Prompt of the Day

AI Fitness Plan

You are a health and nutrition expert. Take the following information about me and create a personalized fitness plan...
(Fill in age, height, weight, goals, etc.)

⚡ Quick Hits

• Google’s AI Overviews now reach 2B users monthly
• Higgsfield’s “Steal” browser tool clones any image style
• GPT-5 and OpenAI’s open-weight model coming soon
• Qwen3-MT launches with support for 92+ languages
• Figma’s “Make” tool turns prompts into UI prototypes

📌 TLDR

Cursor launched Bugbot to clean your code before it breaks things, and GPT-5 is set to drop in August with o3-style reasoning built in. AI is now helping design cancer-targeting proteins in weeks instead of years, and Cognition is chasing a $10B valuation on the back of Devin. Meanwhile, Musk wants to bring back Vine, with an AI spin, and Memories.ai is giving AI true video memory.

Catch you on the other side,
David