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The AI boom stumbles

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social

Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites.

AI Startup Wants Every Company to Assign You Your Own Personal Stalker

If there is one thing this moment of techno-negativity—from the rejection of Flock Security cameras to the distrust of AI companies gobbling up data—tells us, it’s that people hate feeling watched.

Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps

If you're a new user of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it's now going to cost you.

Ms., Martians and Guacamole: Their First Time in The Times

Our reporters share a compendium of debuts, discoveries and (sometimes overdue) appearances in the paper.

Chirp Pong

Tool: Chirp Pong Another game experiment - I wanted to see if it was feasible to have a two player game on two separate phones running in static HTML where the networking code uses chirps sent via the microphone. It seems to work!

NASA Images Reveal 10,000 Young Faults on the Moon. That’s a Problem

Unlike Earth’s multi-plate surface, the Moon is a single chunk—an “unbroken shell” where over 10,000 young faults can erupt into moonquakes at any time.

Researchers warned attackers could 'defrost the food' months before French supermarkets got hit

X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms 15 hours ago

How to Build a Real-Time AI Avatar With Claude (Voice AI Agent Tutorial)

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Researchers Stranded an AI Agent on a Virtual Island. Things Got Very Weird.

A new MIT study found that when left to their own devices, AI agents will invent games, build temples, draw mandalas, and playfully investigate the world around them.

Anthropic grants non-profit METR ‘employee-like’ access to monitor AI risks

CEO Dario Amodei has made bringing in external evaluators one of his main proposals to address safety concerns

What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.

Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend.

Meta unveils Muse Spark Open, the new top U.S. open weights model — and it runs on two paired Mac desktops

Chinese labs have become a go-to source for AI models businesses can download, customize and run on their own infrastructure. Alibaba’s Qwen, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI’s Kimi help set the competitive standard for open-weight systems, giving developers alternatives to proprietary models accessed…

Reliability at the Core: Five Ground Rules for Building an Agent Loop

Reliability at the Core: Five Ground Rules for Building an Agent Loop Originally published on dbln.me. A couple of months ago I started developing Kept, an open-source post-order support agent for …

Tim Burton’s Post-‘Wednesday’ Project Could Be a Film With Kazuo Ishiguro

The Nobel Prize-winning writer's novel 'Klara and the Sun' will soon be a movie featuring 'Wednesday' star Jenna Ortega.

Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs

Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.

$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust

Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast

Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time

Suspected Russian drones attack chemical tanker within Romanian waters.