Current developments in generative AI, software engineering, programming, and digital products, with links to original sources.
China Slams AI Slowdown Talk as 'Fearmongering' — AI Stocks Plunge, and Apple's Siri Is Built to Swap LLMs
OpenAI Moves Toward Pre-Training Safety Checks as Three Companies Discuss Self-Regulation, UK Lawmakers Demand New AI Human Rights Law, and the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell 84GB Debuts
The PFAS "Tidal Wave" Driven by AI Demand — 33B Agnes-3.0-Flash Weights Released, and StepAudio 3 Gen for Speech Generation
35B MoE "Edge0" in Under 3GiB of Memory — Micron's Memory Wall, and LLM Judges Going Soft on Top Performers
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Takes Top Spot on AA's New Index — Hinton Welcomes a Development Pause, While Generalization Research for Robot AI Advances
Trump Dismisses AI Risk Warnings as a "Negative Force" — X Uncovers Chinese Bot Farm, Hitachi's Cross-Department AI Coordination, Gemini Notebook
Trump Rejects AI Slowdown Requests — Obama Demands a "Clear Plan," as Practical Local LLM Testing on a Single RTX 3090 Advances
Running Local Agents on a 64GB VRAM PC with 3× RTX 3090s — The NYT Front Page Goes All AI, ElevenLabs Music v2.5 Trained Only on Licensed Music
GPT-6 Astra Pilots Surveillance Drones and Runs a Business Solo — Plus the 397B Intern-S2-397B, Agent AI's Power Crunch, and 源内Web
Students Banned From AI Rank Last Two Years Running — A Law School's Two-Year Experiment, Altman and Others Back Independent Oversight, and LiteLLM's MCP Auth Hole in Older Versions Is Confirmed Exploited
