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Today in brief.
Nvidia says AI's water problem is mostly a myth
Nvidia dropped a hard number into the data-center water panic - centers use 0.2% of US daily water - and says its new design runs hotter on purpose to use far less, though skeptics say that's not the whole story.
🤖 AI
OpenAI turns Codex into a vuln-patching machine
OpenAI expanded its 'Daybreak' security push into a Codex Security plugin plus a full GPT-5.5-Cyber model, so the same agent you code with now finds, validates, and fixes vulnerabilities inline.
🎬 Media
Google DeepMind puts $75M behind A24 to court filmmakers
DeepMind and indie studio A24 announced a research partnership - reportedly a $75M bet - to shape AI creative tools around the people who actually make films, not the other way around.
🤖 AI
A guy built a 1,800-bot Warcraft server with zero coding
Someone with no coding background used AI to build a World of Warcraft server populated by 1,800 AI bots that talk to you, talk to each other, level up, and roam - Dead Internet Theory, but as a thing you can log into.
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🤖 AI
The next AI jump might be orchestration, not a bigger model
Sakana's new Fugu Ultra isn't a frontier model - it's a learned layer that turns several models into one coordinated agent team, and the claim is it matches Fable 5, though critics are pushing back on the benchmark.
🔬 Science
Apple's roadmap leaks - and it's all about where AI lives after the phone
A Gurman-sourced product map through 2027-plus leaked, and the headline isn't the iPhone - it's the run of AI-native wearables: AirPods with cameras for Siri, Apple Smart Glasses, and true AR glasses after that.
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💼 Business
The AI jobs reckoning is showing up in the numbers
This week the 'AI is coming for jobs' story stopped being abstract - Oracle's headcount fell ~21,000, GM put robots on a flagship line after cutting 1,300 workers, and the running tally of AI-cited layoffs keeps growing.
The public mood on AI is turning - even among its heaviest users
Two fresh data points worth a beat: Americans are souring on AI in big numbers, and Gen Z is the most anti-AI generation yet while also being its biggest consumer - the trust gap is widening even as usage climbs.
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