// AI
Google's StreamVibe tries to teach AI when to speak up, and shows how hard that is
A video assistant that watches you cook or build furniture improves on timing, but every model tested falls apart over longer sessions.
// Staff
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// Startups & Money
OpenAI caps paid ChatGPT accounts per card and device, closing a popular workaround
Users juggling several cheap subscriptions to stretch usage will hit a 'Device limit reached' wall. OpenAI points them to pricier credits instead.
// AI
Chinese AI models lean less pro-Beijing than expected, until you ask in Chinese
A Vals study found wide variation between models, a strong language effect, and that most Chinese models don't refuse sensitive questions; some adopt the official line instead.
// Policy
Judge rules xAI must face the NAACP's pollution lawsuit over its Memphis turbines
The company argued its gas turbines were mobile and exempt from permits. The court said the power plant feeding its data center is not.
// Dev
Claude will no longer rebuild your favorite game, even if you rename it
Anthropic added instructions steering Claude away from recreating existing games amid a wave of AI-assisted fan ports of Halo, Call of Duty and GTA V.
// AI
The agentic web is arriving, and websites are already redesigning for bots
Berners-Lee imagined agents browsing for us in 2001. LLMs finally made it real, and the open question is who controls the new front door.
// Dev
Your agent lost the response. Do not let it retry the refund.
A benchmark found agents claimed success in 90% of cases where they had actually done something twice. The fix is boring distributed-systems hygiene.
// Startups & Money
Marble Cognition raises $3.75M to have AI watch how you work, then do it
The Munich startup records clicks, keystrokes and screenshots to map real workflows so its AI coworkers can take them over.
// Startups & Money
Saudi Aramco buys 49% of Humain as the kingdom bets oil money on AI
The oil giant puts about $2.6 billion and its own AI tech into the state-backed firm building 3 gigawatts of data centers by 2030.
// Policy
A pet-portrait app was a front: 400+ disguised apps hid an AI deepfake abuse service
Researchers traced a network of harmless-looking apps that switched to sexual deepfake tools for some users. Apple and Google pulled them after a year on their stores.
// AI vs Humans
AI slop is knocking on science's door, and human gatekeepers are holding, for now
IEEE Spectrum's editor describes a writer who used AI to fake a paper, publishers' review defenses, and Wikipedia volunteers deleting AI text by hand.
// AI
Apple's new CEO: we won't ship AI for AI's sake
John Ternus, two months into the job, told WIRED he likes where Apple stands on AI and doubts agents will make apps obsolete.