The Everyday
Norway just published the clearest look yet at what generative AI does to how children think. The honest answer is that nobody has run the study that would tell us. A review of 173 international studies finds a clean dual effect from AI in the classroom — and a hole where
The Stack
A memory-infrastructure vendor has published the test that grades its own industry — and written down, in advance, the ways it could cheat it. Wontopos has put the files for glasshouse v0.1 into the open: a long-term memory benchmark for AI systems whose central design decision is that
The Frontier
A two-number change to one of the open field's most widely used attention modules buys a provable class of expressivity at no extra cost — and the authors are unusually clear about what it does not buy. Allowing Kimi Delta Attention's channel-wise gate to go
The Frontier
In-orbit AI stopped being a demonstration this week. One company put a launch date and a price list on it, and a second put the hardware on orbit to make it work. A Guangzhou startup says its first compute satellites launch in October, and customers have already paid in
The Guardrails
Australia's copyright fight stopped being a rumour this morning: the two labs asking Canberra to rewrite its law have now filed their arguments where anyone can read them. OpenAI and Anthropic have filed submissions to parliament's Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence setting out what they
The Frontier
Tencent's image line has been on a two-month clock since it rebuilt the stack in February. The latest tick is a preview model whose rate card does more work than its benchmark does. Tencent released Hy Image3.5 preview on Tuesday, pricing a 2K image at 0.
The Arena
Alibaba's cloud conference in Hangzhou opened this morning with a three-part commitment that is harder to wave off than the usual keynote arithmetic: a model bigger than anything trained so far, the chip to run it, and the power to feed both. Huawei spent the same week
The Everyday
The family of Robin Williams has spent three years asking people to stop making synthetic versions of him. This time the ask came with a description of the business model behind it. Zelda Williams went public on X on Monday night, after an AI-generated video presenting her father discussing
The Arena
A group-level supply pact signed in Redmond and a pair of hardware qualifications handed down by Nvidia landed on the same day — and both point at the same bottleneck: the parts of an AI data center that are not chips. LG Group will supply the cooling, power and IT
The Guardrails
Two stories about control today: the Bank of England admits it is running out of time to get ahead of AI agents that trade on their own, and a new paper finds that the hand-written playbook you give an agent can actively make it worse. Bank of England Deputy
The Guardrails
Two things landed on the same Monday: a coalition of middle powers published the sharpest international statement yet on frontier AI control, and a Lean-verified number-theory proof appeared with one anonymous account standing behind it. Finland's president, Alexander Stubb, published a joint statement on Monday — a
The Everyday
Amazon put $20 million into the Colorado River this week — and still won't say how much water its data centers take out of it. Amazon announced Monday that it will spend $20 million on water conservation across the Colorado River basin, as part of a new corporate coalition