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Meta says its Brain2Qwerty v2 can turn brain activity into text using external magnetic-field sensors, no implants or wires required. If it holds up outside the lab, it reframes the human-computer interface race as a hardware problem AI has quietly solved on the software side.
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A Bloomberg report says Microsoft is replacing OpenAI and Anthropic with its own AI models in some of its applications. Details are thin, but the direction is the one to watch: even the biggest AI partners are quietly building their way toward independence.
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A local NBC4 report from Columbus covers how area school districts responded to a new Ohio state requirement on artificial intelligence in classrooms, although the available material does not detail the exact content of the mandate nor the districts' specific responses.
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The United Nations and 17 governments have launched a coalition in Geneva so that children stop being merely 'users to be protected' and become rights-holders in the design of AI. However, the signatures of the United States and China are missing, and there are no binding compliance mechanisms.
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A security researcher discovered hidden code in Claude Code's system prompt that detected time zones and proxy usage to identify connections with Chinese labs. Anthropic confirmed it: it was a March experiment against unauthorized resale and distillation of its models that was never removed.
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An auto finance company, Arivo Acceptance, has assigned a team of interns with no programming experience to build software by describing what they need to Claude or Copilot. The case illustrates how agentic AI and 'vibe coding' are starting to creep into underwriting, compliance and collections, an area where the margin for regulatory error is minimal.
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The New York Times reports that Anthropic is expanding its presence in Manhattan, part of a broader AI boom that is reshaping the map of talent and capital in New York. The details are sparse, but the underlying trend—the geographic decentralization of the industry—is worth noting.
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At its Science Day, Moderna unveiled two unprecedented programs—an in vivo CAR-T for lupus and a multiplexed therapeutic against ovarian cancer—alongside Lucy, an AI platform that runs closed experimental cycles without human intervention. The market responded by sending the stock up nearly 75% from its lows, although Wall Street remains largely skeptical about whether the promise will translate into actual approvals.
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Oracle has equipped its IAM policy analysis tool on OCI with an MCP server, allowing agents like Claude or Codex to query cloud access permissions with real, deterministic data instead of pasted text or the model's generic memory. It's a small but revealing example of where enterprise AI is headed.
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A former Northview High School (Michigan) teacher accused of using AI to generate fake nude photos of former students has reached a plea agreement, according to WZZM13. The case is another symptom of how AI image generation has become accessible for abuse, well before the law and schools know how to contain it.
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James O'Donnell's article in MIT Technology Review analyzes the resurgence of an idea that Sam Altman has been promoting for years: that American citizens should receive a share of the wealth generated by AI.
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An internal report prepared by career analysts at the US Treasury Department, obtained by NOTUS, warns of the risks posed by the artificial intelligence market, comparing some of its features to the 'dot-com' bubble that burst in the early 2000s.
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The link included in the newsletter forwarded to Manuel points to an opinion article from Financial Times titled "Investors must be wary of the earnings bubble," indexed in the digest under the headline "AI profits are hiding bigger risks in earnings reports."
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Samsung Electronics has announced a profit forecast pointing to an operating profit of 89.4 trillion won (about $58.4 billion) between April and June, representing an increase of roughly 19 times over the same period the previous year, that is, a jump of 1,800%.
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Reuters reveals, citing three sources familiar with the matter, that the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Mythos, Anthropic's AI model specialized in cybersecurity, to audit government code repositories in search of vulnerabilities exploitable by spies…
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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act on Monday, a law that puts the state at the forefront of state-level artificial intelligence regulation in the United States.
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A security researcher and web developer known as "Thereallo" discovered that Anthropic had built into Claude Code a "prompt steganography" mechanism that hid code capable of tracking users in China.
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Anthropic announced on Monday that it has identified a kind of internal workspace within Claude—which it has named "J-Space," after the Jacobian mathematical technique used to detect it—where the model would hold and manipulate ideas without needing to convert them into words.
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Variety reports that Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated 'actress' who sparked a strong backlash in the film industry in late 2025, will star in her first feature film, titled 'Misaligned'.
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Anthropic has published interpretability research claiming to have identified, within the language models of the Claude family, a small collection of internal neural patterns that serve a special function relative to the rest of the model's processing.
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Samsung Electronics is heading for another record quarter. According to LSEG data cited in the article, analysts project an operating profit of about 86 trillion won (approximately $56 billion) for the second quarter, almost eighteen times higher than a year earlier.
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The article begins by questioning the usual narrative about the origin of knowledge distillation, which is usually placed in 2015 with the work of Geoffrey Hinton, Oriol Vinyals and Jeff Dean, who introduced the softmax 'temperature' trick and coined the term 'dark…