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Figure Index pays people to film chores: 16M clips from 108 countries, $15M paid, $1B committed. Human behavior is now a purchasable commodity.

An unedited 10-min video shows Unitree G1 and Zhiyuan A3 sharing one general-purpose brain. Embodied AI may have its GPT moment.

Rich Sutton: LLM scaling is a local optimum. Oak Lab bets on continual learning so models keep learning after deployment.

Anthropic AI-Native SDLC Playbook: code is no longer the bottleneck; the fix is a committed artifact chain and human approval at gates.

Verification-gated PLC coding: 72.6% strict pass on 117 tasks, 52.2% dynamic reliability where baselines fall to 20-30%.

Ornith 1.5 open weights train on self-generated tasks: Terminal-Bench 2.1 rose from 77.5 to 86.1. Next battleground: the question bank.

Veeda AI builds a multimodal world model where robots learn by trial and error in scalable simulations, avoiding costly real-world practice.

OpenAI shared first Jalapeño benchmark results. The custom inference chip outperformed Nvidia Blackwell on InferenceX throughput and latency.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke says he may ban Claude Code unless Anthropic supports AGENTS.md, turning a single Markdown file into the front line of the coding-agent standards war.

DeepSeek hiked V4-Pro peak output prices 350% and made weekends off-peak, ending the Chinese LLM price war as compute moves to token revenue.

Zhipu claims mystery model Ox Alpha as GLM-5.3 Flash: first natively multimodal in the 5-series, 320B/18B active, hybrid linear-sparse attention, and all 62T tokens served on domestic chips at NVIDIA-comparable cost.

New Nature study of 880,000 texts: AI writing tools are flattening language diversity and erasing the identity signals in human prose.