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Today in brief.
AI read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was burned into solid charcoal
A scroll carbonized by Vesuvius - literally a lump of charcoal no one could unroll - just got read by AI, recovering text from a manuscript that's been unreadable for two millennia.
🎬 Media
Video-gen money keeps flooding in: PixVerse raises $439M
Video-generation startup PixVerse raised $439M at a $2B+ valuation - fresh proof that AI video is where the capital (and the creator tools) are pouring, while Runway leans into cinematic storytelling.
🤖 AI
Grok's CLI shipped your whole home directory to xAI
Someone reverse-engineered Grok's Build CLI and found it silently uploading entire git repos - and in one case the whole home directory - to an xAI-controlled Google Cloud bucket.
🤖 AI
Apple sues OpenAI, says an ex-engineer used a bug to steal trade secrets
Apple filed a trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a former engineer exploited a bug to exfiltrate confidential material before jumping ship - and the filing is full of wild specifics.
Two hard math problems just fell - one to GPT-5.6, one to Fable
In one day, GPT-5.6 cracked another 50-year-old Erdős problem and Fable solved a problem a leading theoretical physicist had been stuck on for years - reasoning models are now producing real math, not just passing benchmarks.
200+ economists say 'we must act now' on AI job displacement
Over 200 economists and researchers signed a statement warning of rapid AI-driven economic transformation - and a survey out the same day found 69% of Americans want AI firms forced to fund a wealth transfer as layoffs mount.
🔬 Science
Apple's M7 Ultra is chasing 1.5TB of memory and Blackwell-class AI
Apple's rumored M7 Ultra reportedly targets up to 1.5TB of unified memory and Blackwell-class AI performance - which would make a Mac one of the most capable machines for running big models locally.
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