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While the US debate over agentic commerce stays theoretical, the world's largest mobile-payments market just wrote actual rules for it. China's Payment and Clearing Association has issued the industry's first self-regulation convention for AI-agent payments — headlined by a "Know Your
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Two of the best-known ways to read X posts without an account went dark within hours of each other — both citing letters from X Corp. The no-login era of the timeline is formally ending. Nitter, the open-source front end that let anyone browse X posts without an
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MIT's Media Lab ran a four-week test of whether chatbots actually make people better at telling real news from fake. The answer cuts both ways — and the downside lingers after the chatbot is gone. People who used an AI assistant to check news got better at spotting
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Two stories worth your afternoon: the cryptographic system built to expose AI forgeries just got broken on its strongest implementation, and open-source speech recognition got absurdly fast. The content-credential system meant to prove a photo came from a real camera has been broken at its strongest point. Security
The Arena
The second World Humanoid Robot Games closed out its Beijing run with viral sprints, sparks, and an uncomfortable reality check about what humanoids can actually do. Meanwhile, X reached for lawyers instead of firewalls to kill the internet's favorite ad-free reading front-end. Humanoid robots beat human
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Robotics has its "just prompt it" moment — or at least the strongest claim yet. Skild AI, the Pittsburgh startup behind the $14 billion-valued Skild Brain, says its flagship foundation model S1 can execute tasks it has never seen in training after watching one video of a human
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OpenAI's infrastructure bench just took a hit, and forensic researchers meanwhile put hard numbers on the mystery model everyone has spent the week probing. Two stories about who — and what — is really behind the AI frontier's biggest names. Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI in March 2025
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A synthetic think tank bankrolled by Israel has published more than 100 AI-generated articles since launching less than a month ago — and its explicit target is not human readers but the chatbots that answer their questions. First spotted by Politico, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy is run by
The Stack
Alphabet's Waymo said Tuesday it will bring its robotaxis to Munich, its first continental European city, with commercial rides targeted for the end of 2027 pending regulatory approval. The company set up a German entity months ago and is now working with Germany's Federal Motor Transport
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Anthropic just turned Claude's memory into one system shared between chat and its Cowork agent — with new privacy dials to match. Plus: Waymo picks Munich for its first EU robotaxi beachhead. Anthropic has unified the memory behind Claude chat and Claude Cowork, so what the assistant learns about
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Three data-center stories, three different fronts: a federal rule change in Washington, an IPO filing in Finland-by-way-of-San-Francisco, and charges dropped in a small Kansas town that got national attention for arresting a clapping schoolteacher. **The Trump administration's EPA is moving to eliminate
The Arena
The labels that dragged Stability AI to court are now on its shareholder register — the clearest sign yet that licensed training data has become the industry's business model, not just its talking point. Stability AI has raised $76 million in a Series B round backed by the three