5:13 AM

Today in brief.

TikTok invents fake 2000s actresses with AI

A whole fake celebrity - 'Brooke Sullivan' - now racks up millions of views, and most viewers have no idea she never existed.

Power users are quietly defecting from Claude Code to Codex - and the chatter says GPT-5.6 lands as a 'meaningful improvement' next.

79 hours after launch, Grok's new video model is everywhere - and the wild examples are the whole pitch.

The open-model price war went nuclear - inference just got up to 99% cheaper from five Chinese labs at once.

The uncomfortable question builders are circling: today's $20 plans are subsidized - what's the real price?

A stat worth sitting with: ML teams spend ~50% of effort on evaluation and only ~2% on training.

Agents need their own credentials, not yours - Cloudflare just made them temporary and throwaway.