TL;DR A Russian Molniya drone with an onboard Nvidia Jetson Orin module chose its own target at a Zaporizhzhia gas station on July 6, killing three civilians. The wreckage carried no radio antennas and its code was unencrypted, letting Ukrainian offic…
I put together this week's issue around a pattern that kept repeating across very different stories. Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay arguing Meta should give every person AI superintelligence. Among the researchers, builders and policy peop…
The model releases this week looked like one race on the surface, but the business models are separating. xAI's Grok 4.6 is a closed API product. Its leverage comes from controlling access and setting the token price. Alibaba's Qwen3.8 is an op…
The Financial Times is reporting that Meta is testing a mode for its next-generation Ray-Ban glasses where Live AI runs in the background for hours, up from roughly 30 minutes on the current device. Cameras and sensors stay active continuously so the a…
Leaked planning documents obtained by Bloomberg describe a Russian state-linked operation called "Project 2026," run by the Social Design Agency (SDA), with the stated goal of seeding the information layer that AI chatbots and search engines …
A sworn declaration from the Pentagon's chief digital and AI officer confirms a federal-only build, Grok Gov, was wired into US targeting systems during operations against Iran, helping deploy more than 2,000 munitions against 2,000 distinct target…
Kapwing set up fresh TikTok accounts and found 59% of the videos served to them were AI slop, synthetic visuals or low-effort AI voiceover compilations. That's about three times what they saw on YouTube Shorts. Kids' content was worst: 57% over…
Visa's Instant Checkout was retired in March after merchant fee problems; the ChatGPT integration rebuilds commerce on Visa's existing card-acceptance rails, removing the per-merchant fee barrier. Visa's press release names three infrastru…
The CMA's conduct requirement under the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act is the first binding law to separate content display rights from AI training data rights at domain and page level, covering Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemi…
Demis Hassabis has tightened his AGI timeline to 2029, making him the most aggressive sitting frontier-lab CEO on record with a public forecast. In an Axios interview, Hassabis named one or two remaining technical breakthroughs DeepMind needs to clear …
