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With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.
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Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI
Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.
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Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web
Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.
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Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells)
Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.
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OpenAI cuts ties with three safety researchers, WSJ reports
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
Fei-Fei Li Joins AMD: Will Nvidia Be Affected? The Person Who Set the GPU Era Alight with ImageNet Now Stands on the Other Side
AMD's $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs puts Fei-Fei Li in the camp of Nvidia's biggest rival, but the short-term impact on Nvidia's business is minimal — and Nvidia may actually profit from the deal even as it loses a window into where world models are heading.
AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 Billion in Stock: In an All-Stock Deal, Who Becomes a Shareholder and Who Is Betting on What
AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the spatial intelligence company founded by Fei-Fei Li, for about $8.2 billion in AMD common stock. The all-stock structure turns World Labs shareholders into AMD shareholders and raises open questions about valuation, retention, and how open the combined AI ecosystem will remain.
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Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system
Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.
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Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses
The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.
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Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents
The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.
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How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid
If you want to install a big battery in New York City, you have to cut through a notoriously tough tangle of regulations. That’s made it difficult to get large energy storage projects on the grid. Faced with those obstacles, some startups are getting creative, finding ways to use relatively small batteries in unexpected places,…
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Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.
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The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and…
Bipartisan Senators Push AI Liability Bill: Companies Would Face Criminal Liability for AI Agent Hacking
Republican Senator Josh Hawley and Democratic Senator Chris Murphy plan to introduce the AI Agent Accountability Act, which would give victims a legal basis to pursue civil and criminal action against companies when AI agents cause hacking or network intrusions. The bill highlights a rare bipartisan push for AI accountability even as the Trump administration favors industry self-regulation.
Trump Signs a Moral Constitution with Six AI Giants: Whom Can a Superintelligence Pact Without Penalties Constrain?
President Trump and the heads of six AI giants signed the White House Superintelligence Agreement, a voluntary pledge that lacks penalties, disclosure duties, and independent enforcement. The article examines its four-layer control structure, three critical gaps, and the political strategy behind renaming AI as “Super Intelligence.”
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An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan
A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at.  In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what…
California Newsom Signs SB 947 Banning AI-Only Firings; Policy Reversal Covers Largest U.S. Labor Market
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 947, which prohibits employers from using AI as the sole basis for firing or disciplining workers and requires human review and notice, effective July 2027. Covering the largest U.S. labor market, the law may influence employer HR systems and AI regulation nationwide.
Interpreting GPT-6.1 Sol's First Test Scorecard: How to Read the 18 Questions Correctly
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol scored 95.91 on the YZ Index's first targeted evaluation (Run #348, an 18-question protocol), but that small-sample, different-protocol result cannot be ranked or compared directly against the main leaderboard. Here is how to read the scorecard properly.
OpenAI DevDay 2026: Agents API Takes Over the Software Interface — Is the Enterprise AI Agent Inflection Point Here, or a Cost Trap?
At its San Francisco DevDay, OpenAI opened the Agents API to public beta and rolled out Computer Use integration, the Decisions API, an Ultrafast speed tier, and AWS Bedrock managed integration. The release signals agents moving from text assistance to autonomous task execution, but data-residency limits, pricing premiums, and unclear speed economics leave the enterprise payoff unsettled.
Anthropic Names Seven Chinese AI Labs: 190 Million Queries Used to Systematically Extract Claude's Reasoning Chains
An Anthropic threat intelligence report alleges that seven Chinese AI labs used thousands of fraudulent accounts to run roughly 190 million queries against Claude between December 2025 and August 2026, systematically extracting its chain-of-thought reasoning to train competing models. The disclosure raises unresolved questions about model distillation, legal liability, and the independence of AI benchmarks.