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What Does Each Brain Region Like to Watch? EPFL Evolved AI-Generated Videos to Find Out
All results are computer simulation predictions from a brain "digital twin" model, not yet validated with real human brain imaging.
▶ Play07-11 · 9 min read
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LangChain Ships OpenWiki 0.1.0: Proactive Memory for AI Agents, Auto-Syncing Gmail, Notion, Git, and X into a Local Wiki
No manual context-feeding required — the local Markdown wiki refreshes on a set schedule; a Slack connector is coming soon.
▶ Play07-11 · 6 min read
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Google Cloud Puts a Proxy Model Inside AlloyDB: In-Database AI Inference, Up to 23,000x Faster
Local small models replace cloud AI calls — the numbers come from Google's internal testing; proxy models are currently limited to the ai.if function and still in preview
▶ Play07-10 · 8 min read
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1X Gives NEO a New Hand That Can Feel What It's Holding
Every joint in the tendon-driven hand can sense external force, fingertip positioning is accurate to ±0.2mm, and a dedicated production line is planned for an annual capacity of 10,000 units.
07-10 · 6 min read
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Google Research Unveils SensorFM: Trained on a Trillion Minutes of Wearable Data, It Wins 33 of 35 Health Tasks
Pretrained on 2 billion hours of wearable data from 5 million people, a frozen encoder with just a linear head beats supervised baselines on 34 of 35 health tasks.
▶ Play07-10 · 8 min read
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Every's 9-Person Team Ran GPT-5.6 Sol for a Month: Here's the Verdict
First-hand impressions from four scenarios: coding, writing, knowledge work, and agents
▶ Play07-10 · 9 min read
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6: Scores Close In on Claude Fable 5 at Half the Cost, Merges ChatGPT and Codex
Sol, Terra, and Luna tiers ship alongside a 4-agent parallel ultra mode; ChatGPT Work launches the same day as Codex folds into ChatGPT. Includes the full bilingual launch keynote.
07-10 · 12 min read
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work, Powered by GPT-5.6, to Auto-Generate Docs, Sheets, and Slides Across Tools
Available today on desktop for all tiers, with web and mobile rolling out to remaining plans in the coming days.
07-10 · 3 min read
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Anthropic Adds Reflect to Claude: Screen-Time-Style Insight Into Your AI Habits
One click in Settings pulls up a report — what you talked about, when you chatted most, what you kept asking it to do, all laid out. Memory has to be turned on first.
07-10 · 6 min read
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Cloudflare Ships Drop: Drag a Folder In, Get a Live Site Worldwide — No Signup Required
A public link in seconds — try it first, log in later to claim it. Unclaimed drops expire in about an hour.
07-09 · 7 min read
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Claude Code's Two Knobs, Explained: One for Capability, One for Effort
A ClaudeDevs deep dive untangles two knobs that both seem to promise a better answer: switching models swaps in a different frozen set of weights, while dialing up effort changes how willing it is to read more files, run more tests, and double-check before handing in the result.
▶ Play07-09 · 9 min read
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№ 105
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Meta Releases Muse Spark 1.1, Rivaling GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on Agentic Benchmarks
Features: orchestrator/sub-agent coordination, million-token context, desktop/browser/mobile control, coding and multimodal; API pricing $1.25 input / $4.25 output per million tokens
07-09 · 10 min read
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Gemma 4 Technical Report: How a Small Open Model Takes On Large Ones with Reasoning and Memory Efficiency
Not a feature list — three engineering tracks turned at once: reasoning lifts intelligence, an efficiency stack cuts cost, native multimodality expands input.
▶ Play07-09 · 12 min read
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LangChain Tunes the Harness, Not the Model — Nemotron 3 Ultra Closes In on Opus 4.8 at 1/10 the Cost
Three levers — system prompt, tool descriptions, middleware — push the Deep Agents suite from a typical ~0.80 to 0.84, topping out at 0.86 against Opus's 0.87.
▶ Play07-09 · 9 min read
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AI Self-Improvement Starts Outside the Model: Lilian Weng on Harness Engineering
Former OpenAI safety lead surveys nearly 30 papers: from prompt tweaks to self-modifying code, DGM pushed coding ability from 20% to 50%.
▶ Play07-09 · 13 min read
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xAI Launches Grok 4.5: Rivals Opus 4.8, ~2x Faster Output at a Quarter of the Price
Ranks 3rd on DeepSWE, 4th overall — faster than Opus 4.8 and notably cheaper.
07-09 · 6 min read
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OpenAI Ships GPT-Live: No More Taking Turns With AI — Hard Questions Auto-Route to GPT-5.5
The first truly full-duplex voice model launches today, and it can hand off complex tasks to GPT-5.5 in real time.
07-09 · 6 min read
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№ 099
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ByteDance Launches Seedream 5.0 Pro: One Image, a Dozen-Plus Independent Layers — Dense Charts and Real Scenes in a Single Generation
Adds click-and-circle point editing plus native rendering for a dozen-plus languages; now live on Volcano Engine, rolling out to Doubao and Jimeng next
07-08 · 6 min read
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