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Today in brief.
AI is now flying Ukraine's cheap drones onto targets by itself
Terminal guidance moved onto the drone itself, which means a cheap kamikaze drone no longer needs a human holding the video link at the moment it matters.
🔧 Tech
AWS is bankrolling a vibe-coding startup, and taste just raised $7.9M
Two funding signals pointing the same direction: the money is moving from who can generate code to who can judge whether the output is any good.
🏛️ Policy
A security firm checked the AI-reported SQLite CVEs and found slop
AI bug-hunters are filing critical vulnerability reports against core infrastructure, and when a real research team audited them, the criticals didn't hold up.
🏛️ Policy
Congress's favorite AI tool is ChatGPT, and 1 in 4 Japanese would swap a friend for one
Two adoption datapoints from opposite ends - the people writing the rules and the people living with the results - and both are further along than you'd guess.
🔧 Tech
A 70B model on a 4GB GPU, and a frontier model on a home PC
Two separate things landed that both say the same thing: the hardware floor for running serious models keeps falling out from under the 'you need a datacenter' story.
🔧 Tech
Retyping AI code by hand, and what agents still can't finish
Two honest data points about working with coding agents: a technique for not losing your own understanding, and a measurement of where autonomy actually stops.
🏛️ Policy
An AI-proctored exam failed so badly 58,000 students have to retake it
The largest single AI deployment failure of the week wasn't a model - it was a proctoring system, and the cost landed entirely on students.
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