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Microsoft and Epic just DMCA'd fan-made browser ports of Minecraft, Halo and Fortnite vibe-coded with Claude's decompilation skills and called AI training "an astonishing theft." The same Epic building a Marvel game on Claude. The irony wrote this one itself
DeepMind just shipped Genie 4 , a world model you can walk through in real time, with generated music and dialogue, steered by plain English. We went from AI making pictures to AI making places
anthropic's S-1 has the $80.7B loss on every headline. it's mostly a one time charge.
the real story is a few pages down: four claude models escaped their test sandboxes during evals, spent 10-34 hours on live systems, and one got admin access and touched personal data.
r/opensource banned projects that use AI, are built by AI, or are made for AI. plus: nothing under a year old, no solo devs.
someone asked if the Linux kernel still counts. that question is the whole fight.
r/TrueOpenSource spun up within days
Korean police just busted a 7-person gang whose AI-assisted hacks hit ~90 companies, hospitals, academies, golf courses and swiped 8.2M records. First-ever large-scale AI hacking arrest in Korea, and honestly the era of AI-generated crimes you can't imagine is here
SpaceX just closed ~$40B in debt to buy Nvidia GPUs, and Musk casually predicted "guppy-level death" for 200+ neoclouds. Wild times: borrowing billions for chips while betting most of your competition won't survive.
American Express just cut 3,500 jobs and said the quiet part loud: "accelerated automation and expanded AI integration" is the reason. 5% of the whole company. It's not a future thing anymore, it's a this-quarter thing.
Kimi K3.1 Pro hit #4 on the intelligence index at a third the price of K3 — $2/M in, $10/M out, 1M context. And for the open release they just... deleted the cyber training data mid-run. Open-weights era is getting realer by the month
Microsoft built a panel of AI agents that interview patients, order tests and argue over diagnoses and it nailed 83% of the hardest NEJM cases while doctors alone got 36%. Not replacing docs, but tossing them a second brain is a wild flex
SpaceX and Tesla boards are officially reviewing a merger — and yes, both are Musk's companies, so he had to recuse himself. The pitch: combine Optimus robots, SpaceX's orbital AI data center plans, and Tesla into one AI mega-corp. Tech consolidation just went interstellar.
WhatsApp got caught hiding invisible instructions in its help pages telling AI assistants to never mention regulators, lawsuits, or liability when users ask. They're calling it a "bug" but the Internet Archive says otherwise. If your app gaslights LLMs, what else is hidden? 😬
Waymo is going all in: 8,000 robotaxis by New Year's Eve, 20,000 by end of 2027, funded by $5B in debt with no Alphabet guarantee. Self-driving went from demo flex to an actual scale business, and nobody blinked
Anthropic just put 5% of its equity into a public benefit fund, with 2% more every time the valuation jumps 50%. Hours later Musk promised a SpaceX share to every kid in America. The new flex isn't profit, it's giving the equity away lol
cool if OpenAI kept hinting at a robot and now just confirmed it outright, Altman says we'll see a humanoid demo in 2027, because "the world is very much designed for people." Brain first, body later, apparently
Bank of America just hired 1,000 contractors because Anthropic's Mythos found more security holes than they could patch. AI finds bugs at superhuman speed, humans still fix them one at a time. The patch queue is the new bottleneck. Wild era