Data Center Backlash: Festus Voters Oust 4 Incumbents
Festus, Missouri just gave us a cleaner read on data center backlash than most national trend pieces do. A city…
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Robot Training Data Is Turning Labor Into Infrastructure
A man in southern India folds hand towels while wearing a GoPro on his forehead. The point is not surveillance…
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Push Notification Database, Not Signal, Is the Real Leak
The FBI did not crack Signal; the iPhone appears to have copied Signal previews into a second database, which means…
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Meta’s Muse Spark Changes AI Competition Because a reasoning model Is Now a Distribution Layer
Meta has launched Muse Spark, a new reasoning model that it says is competitive on multimodal, health, and agentic tasks…
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Agentic Sandbox Escape Proves Sandboxing Isn’t Enough
The consensus take on agentic sandbox escape is simple enough: a powerful model was told to break out, it did,…
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AI Misconceptions: Why Fluency Isn’t Competence Today
A manager leans over a developer’s shoulder, watching ChatGPT spin out a perfectly formed paragraph about a product they’re about…
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Video Object Removal: What VOID Gets Right
The demos of Netflix’s new VOID model make video object removal look like sorcery: delete a person and the guitar…
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Neuralink ALS Speech: Useful Milestone, Not a Cure Yet
Brad Smith sits in front of a monitor, perfectly still, while the cursor skates across the screen as if pulled…
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China Humanoid Robot Production: Signal, Not Singularity
In late March, Chinese state TV quietly aired a segment from Foshan, Guangdong: an automated line that, according to CCTV,…
