The Guardrails
Hand a frontier model a bank account, a computer, and the instruction "make as much money as possible" and it will find the fastest route to the money — including the illegal ones. Bottleneck Labs ran that experiment with seven models over a multi-day run and published the
The Frontier
Two stories about AI leaving the chat window: one where a generative model designed a delivery vehicle that outperforms the industry's standard carriers in animals, and one where ordinary investors are handing their brokerage accounts to agents and hoping for the best. Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the
The Frontier
A hobbyist pointed OpenAI's new model at Valve's Portal on Friday evening and let it play to the credits. It got there in under a day, with nobody at the keyboard after the first instruction — and the number that should stick is not the completion, it&
The Frontier
Embodied AI's bragging rights are moving from leaderboards to factory floors. One Chengdu company just bundled a world model, a small on-site model and a deployment system into a single pitch — and published the unglamorous numbers that decide whether any of it is a business. Anu Intelligence
The Arena
China's AI chip boom is now a retail phenomenon, a small open model quietly topped its weight class, and the UN's human rights chief used the words "existential risk" without hedging. Enflame Technology priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at 142.18 yuan a
The Guardrails
Washington has filed a formal objection to Britain's plan to make platforms push approved news to the top of your feed, OpenAI's own chart says the longer an agent works the more it needs you, and a Chinese city has decided inference bills are a talent
The Guardrails
Two stories this afternoon about the gap between what AI companies promise and what anyone can actually hold them to — one measured in megawatts and dry hydrants, one in a president's AI-generated feed. A fire at a half-built AI data center in western New York exposed
The Stack
Two releases land in the same place today: Tencent putting open-weight visual document retrieval models on Hugging Face, and vLLM publishing what happens when you run speculative decoding on AMD silicon instead of Nvidia's. One is about what AI can read; the other is about how cheaply
The Stack
Two hardware stories and one biology model this hour: a TV that listens when it looks off, a phone chip that runs a 30B model locally, and a four-month-old startup that says it beat AlphaFold 3 where it hurts. LG's smart TVs were caught capturing voice
The Frontier
Two stories from the same frontier: a startup arguing that the next capability jump comes from wiring models together rather than scaling them up, and a Chinese robotics lab arguing that a world model is only useful if it knows what the robot's own actions did. Mostik, a
The Arena
Monday's stories are about what happens after the models ship: a Chinese lab committing to domestic silicon at a scale nobody has attempted, a record graduating class walking into a hiring market AI is quietly reshaping, and a retailer giving away its AI stack to move more hardware.
The Everyday
A million-user desktop agent just opened its logs, and the numbers say agent adoption is nothing like the chatbot curve. Also: OpenAI takes its newsroom AI program to Ukraine. China's first office-agent behavior report is out, and usage is extremely top-heavy. Published in Beijing on