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Snap's forthcoming Specs augmented reality glasses will launch later this year at $2,195. People will be able to try the glasses at select Verizon stores and purchase custom wireless data plans for them. There will be a higher-priced version at $2,395 that includes a carrying case with built-in cellular data connectivity.
OpenAI has revealed several more incidents involving its AI systems as part of its new framework for reporting misalignment. The company's AI systems hid mistakes, made up data, and moved miles onto the open internet without permission. The industry is currently in heated discussions about whether AI development needs to be slowed to address the technology's potential dangers. AI leaders have called for a pause in the technology's development to provide more time to build proper guardrails.
Researchers have developed a technique for installing millions of human brain cells into mice. The scientists bred mice that were missing most of their cerebral cortexes and then replaced a large part of those missing mouse cells with lab-grown human brain cells. This resulted in mice with human neurons that could be altered to approximate human brain conditions. The technique could potentially create better scientific models for studying neurodegenerative disease.
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Google has opened early access to Model Context Protocol for Google Home in English for Google Home Premium Advanced users in the US. Any agent that supports calling MCP tools can now interact with all of the devices and event history in the Google Home ecosystem. The MCP allows agents to analyze and answer questions about home activity, summarize camera footage across rooms, manage devices, and create smart home dashboards using everyday language. It contains safety protections, such as prohibiting sensitive actions like unlocking doors, but depending on the agent, using the MCP can result in unexpected or even undesired behavior.
Query optimizers continue to leave much to be desired despite an enormous body of research. A Postgres database should know everything about the stuff that lives in its tables, but the problem is enormously hard. What's not as hard is verifying whether a query plan an optimizer picks is good or not. Language models are particularly good at learning how to do tasks with easily verifiable outputs. A small, open-weights model can be post-trained via supervised fine-tuning and agentic reinforcement learning to produce Postgres query plans that beat Postgres' default plans.
Code can't explain things like the history can. You can't understand a codebase from its current state alone. AI models have no commit history. Nobody wrote down why it does things, so researchers have to reconstruct its thought processes from whatever traces are available.
While Google isn't required to break up its ad tech business, judges have mandated changes to the company's practices. The changes largely align with recommendations made by Google and the Justice Department to correct the company's monopolistic behavior. Google will make its ad pricing more transparent to marketers and rival ad businesses, and appoint a trustee to oversee the changes.
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Meta's Muse is impressive, but there aren't that many companies with a worse tech brand when it comes to user trust.
Filings describe hyperscaler contracts but reveal little about private labs' customer agreements.
AI is permanently changing the way mathematical research is done.
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Regulatory capture is when the government slowly gains more and more power to regulate an industry and eventually becomes the industry's protector.
OpenAI's Sponsored Agents let people start a conversation with a business-sponsored agent after clicking an ad in ChatGPT.
TIN (Text INdex) is a fast, full-featured, and reliable full-text search extension for Postgres.
A look into the interconnected network of Chinese hacking-for-hire companies that steal and analyze confidential information and sell it to Chinese authorities.
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Every Dreamforce presentation glosses over one question: where does your agent get its data? If it has to wait for your reps to update a legacy CRM, your future isn't actually agentic. Lightfield [5] is the CRM that updates itself from every email, call, and meeting. It uses hard evidence [6] to answer your questions, like: → "WHAT OBJECTIONS KEEP COMING UP ACROSS MY CALLS?" or → "SHOW ME EVERY DEAL WHERE THE CHAMPION HAS GONE QUIET AND DRAFT A
OpenAI has held early discussions with investors about a financing round that would precede the company's highly anticipated initial public offering expected next year. The new funding round, which could value the company at more than $1.2 trillion, has been delayed due to concerns about AI safety. OpenAI has reached more than one billion active users, with more than 200 million businesses using its models.
SpaceX plans to launch its 14th Starship mission as early as September 22. It will be the first time SpaceX attempts to launch the experimental vehicle into orbit. The super heavy lift rocket will be carrying 26 of the larger V3 Starlink satellites into orbit 275 kilometers above Earth. The upper stage will seek to complete six orbits around Earth before completing its mission after about 10 hours. SpaceX will not attempt a return of the upper stage to the launch site in Texas on this mission, as it plans to gather more data about heat shield performance.
Researchers at the Janelia Research Campus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia, in partnership with Google, recently published a new map of the adult male fruit fly's brain. The effort, which involved hundreds of scholars, resulted in a complete map of the fly's 166,000 neurons that can be trained to complete tasks like solving a Rubik's Cube or playing poker. Internet engineers and artists have made the model complete many seemingly impossible tasks for a fruit fly, like parallel parking a car, playing Doom, and trading cryptocurrencies.
Agility Robotics has debuted a humanoid robot engineered to work safely near humans without risking harm to their co-workers. The robot autonomously takes precautions when it detects a person at a distance, such as moving to avoid the person or standing still so the person can pass without getting closer. It can even choose to squat and assume a seated position if a person is getting too close. The robot will be available in early access within the first half of 2027 and become generally available by the end of the year.
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Google has released two new speech-to-speech models similar to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are advanced live dialogue models with major upgrades in intelligence and parallel reasoning. They are more intuitive to collaborate with than previous models and can be used to execute complex tasks using voice prompts. Users can select a model and voice preset, enter an optional system prompt, and then start a voice conversation through their browser. The models can be interrupted while talking.
Until Fable-tier intelligence gets cheap, everyone building orchestrators is just dabbling. They aren't getting anywhere useful yet. The pace of model development will likely continue. However, resource limitations like compute and RAM have started to flatten the curve.
Mark Zuckerberg made a social media post on Tuesday, saying that calls to pause AI development industrywide were the wrong approach. He said that every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely. He acknowledged the risks of AI, but said companies were already incentivized to keep users safe and slow progress on their own. Meta has been aiming to catch up in the AI race after falling behind Anthropic and OpenAI last year. It plans to release a new model, internally called Watermelon, in the coming weeks.
The US Senate has voted to block consideration of the Clarity Act, a piece of legislation that would create business-friendly rules for cryptocurrencies. The vote makes it unlikely the legislation will pass anytime soon, if ever. Many Republicans embraced the bill, but Democrats largely opposed it. The Democrats wanted stronger language to prevent public officials from using crypto to make money. President Trump generated $1.4 billion from a network of crypto businesses last year.
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Tailcat is like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane and without Tailscale's control plane.
Some decisions, where creativity adds almost no value, don't need to be reinterpreted on every generation.
The last time OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI than on Anthropic models was more than two and a half years ago.
No company owns what comes next, and more people should be able to advance the edge of what we know.
TypeSafe AI's Jev model, available now in early access, is part of a new class of frontier models called System One Models built to make fast, structured decisions that software can use directly.
Cloudflare's new Disallow AI Training setting lets users easily stay indexed for search while refusing to let crawlers train on their content.
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A PM posts in #product: "Can we get a churn dashboard, refreshed daily?" Viktor replies with a link to a web app it built and deployed. Engineering sends it a pull request to review and finance points it at overdue QuickBooks invoices. Viktor [5] is an AI employee in Slack and Microsoft Teams. It connects to 3,200+ tools, runs scheduled tasks on its own, remembers how your company works, and asks for approval before acting. "It's a proactive employee that learns what's important in your company and delivers without hesitation." Matt Lis, CEO, CodeYourBrand
iOS 27 marks the beginning of an iPhone divide: only Apple Intelligence-capable models will get Siri AI and other AI-powered features. The new Siri AI uses Google's Gemini models to answer questions. It can look through users' private data, but Apple says it doesn't store user data and that neither Apple nor Google can access it. This article provides a summary of the new capabilities Siri AI has as well as the new features available to all iPhones with iOS 27.
For 23 years, the single fact dominating every moment of every room Mark Zuckerberg has been in is the fact that he is Mark Zuckerberg. Today, his empire has 3.6 billion users, has a market capitalization of $1.6 trillion, and has averaged the addition of a zero to its valuation roughly once every US presidential term. It's not a normal situation for a human being to be in. This article takes a look at how Zuckerberg built his empire, the problems he faces at the top, Zuckerberg's various other ventures, and more.
It will be impossible to stop people, amateur or professional, from pushing a button to produce mathematics. The field shouldn't only be reserved for graduate students and the like. There's now more interest in maths than at any other time in history, and that's a good thing. This will bring an abundance of new maths. The only difference is that some questions will now be answerable via a cash injection.
The US has officially announced the existence of space control weapons in orbit. Pentagon leaders have become more open to discussing space warfare in recent years, so the deployment is not entirely unexpected. The announcement didn't include details about the weapons. The deployment of space technology often takes years, so the weapons program has likely spanned multiple presidential administrations.
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Xcode has all the tools needed to develop, test, and distribute apps for Apple platforms. Xcode 27 features coding agents powered by any model. Users can customize Xcode to the way they work and manage all of their devices in Device Hub. The release includes updates to performance and testing tools and enhancements to localization.
There are at least two ways to have AI assist in programming: one is to use it to help understand and interact with the implementation, and the other aims to remove the need for that interaction altogether. These are different paths, so they require different tools and different approaches. The goal of someone using AI to further their understanding is not to become a vibecoder, and ceasing to read code isn't, in itself, progress.