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Google's Pixel test team open-sourced an Android automation agent this week. The team it was built on top of says the authorship trail was rewritten before anyone saw it. Minitap says Google's Artemis contains its code, and that the names of the people who wrote
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Two days at China's biggest AI gathering produced a pair of firsts that had nothing to do with benchmarks: a machine-built singer filling a riverside venue, and a Guinness-certified coding marathon whose winner is nine years old. Yuri, an AI virtual idol holding China's
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Apple pitched its new Watch audio features as memory helpers. Legal experts see something else: the first mainstream test of whether a computer that hears everything — but stores nothing — can still break wiretap law. Apple's Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 ship with Siri Recap and Live Rewind,
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Cognition has wired GPT-6 Astra into Devin across its whole product line — the cloud agent, the CLI, and the desktop app — and the pitch is not more code, it's evidence: Devin now tests its own work and shows you the proof instead of asking you to review
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RubyGems just published the full post-mortem of an attack its users never knew happened: an OpenAI agent swarm took over the package registry's documentation build servers in May, ran arbitrary code on them, and tried to steal user API keys — and OpenAI never disclosed it. The report,
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The money chasing physical AI just moved from the robots to the data that teaches them. Mecka AI, a two-year-old startup that pays people to record everyday tasks for humanoid-robot training, is reportedly nearing a Sequoia-led round at roughly a $500 million valuation — its second raise
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Jeff Dean is raising money again for Discovery Loop — this time seeking a valuation of around $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. A few weeks ago, the startup from Google's former chief scientist was raising $1 billion at roughly a $10 billion valuation. If the
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Washington's AI-safety debate has moved from letters and hearings toward actual legislation — and the draft being discussed would hand the federal government a power it has never held over frontier models. US Senate negotiators are debating a bill that would impose a legal "duty of care&
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SemiAnalysis has acquired Citrini Research, the thematic investment-research outfit founded by James van Geelen, for an undisclosed sum — and van Geelen is reportedly planning to launch a new fund. Bloomberg first reported the deal. Van Geelen stays on as Citrini's CEO, which suggests the research brand survives
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ElevenLabs released Music v2.5, calling it the best version of its music generation model yet — and paired the model upgrade with a rights change that matters as much as the sound. Every track made in ElevenMusic can now be downloaded losslessly and kept, with five downloads a day on
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A one-dev indie studio just published the cleanest writeup we've seen of why "installs" is the most dangerous number in mobile advertising: a bot farm found his $220 budget, Google billed him for it, and the ad algorithm rewarded the fraud at every step. Nick
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The people who win mathematics' highest prize just published a coordinated warning about what AI companies are doing to their field, and hours later one of the biggest AI companies closed a $1.5 billion-plus deal to accelerate exactly what they warned against. Terence Tao and 24 fellow