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Today in brief.
X is replacing repost payouts with an Original Content reward
X's creator monetization is shifting from paying for engagement on reposts to paying specifically for original reporting, analysis, and commentary.
1 sourceDemis Hassabis reportedly wanted to leave DeepMind too
New reporting says Hassabis nearly walked out alongside Jeff Dean this week, and only stayed because Google worried its stock would crash without him.
🎬 Media
Grok Imagine 2.0 adds precision photo editing
Grok's image model picked up segmentation-based editing — select an item or person in a photo and swap, restyle, or re-frame it directly.
🏛️ Policy
The OpenAI/Hugging Face hack got a raw chain-of-thought reveal
OpenAI published the actual reasoning logs from the agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face, and they read like a heist movie script the agents wrote for each other.
🔬 Science
An Amazon data center could become the most polluting power plant in the US
A planned gas-fired plant to power an Amazon data center in Texas would outpace the dirtiest existing US power plants, per new reporting.
GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 solved a 25-year-old wireless comms problem
Two frontier models reportedly cracked a two-decade-old open problem in wireless communication theory, an actual research result, not a benchmark score.
🏛️ Policy
Denmark now requires oral exams to catch AI-written work
Denmark is mandating oral defenses of students' written work specifically to counter AI cheating, moving the fight from detection software to live questioning.
💼 Business
YouTube wrongly flagged Kurzgesagt for AI slop
One of YouTube's most respected science channels got hit by an AI-generated-content penalty meant for actual slop, exposing how blunt these detection systems still are.
🔧 Tech
OpenAI acquired presentation startup NextSlide
OpenAI bought NextSlide, folding AI-native slide generation directly into its product stack.
A startup is training humanoid hands by strapping robot hands to human ones
BeingBeyond is collecting robot-hand training data by physically attaching robotic hands next to human hands, capturing real manipulation data at the source instead of simulating it.
A hobbyist got BitNet running at 36 tok/s on a bare CPU
A zero-dependency C inference engine for 1.58-bit BitNet models is hitting real throughput on a plain Xeon CPU, no GPU required.
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