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Today in brief.
Thinking Machines is paying for agent data with free access
Inkling is free on OpenRouter for a few weeks, agentic harnesses only, and the price is your usage data.
🔬 Science
a16z's data center charts and the power mandate that landed with them
a16z published county-level data saying data centers make local economies better, in the same week Trump moved to make those data centers generate their own power.
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🎬 Media
Runway shipped SDR to 16-bit HDR conversion
Runway Ruby converts any video, generated or uploaded, into 16-bit HDR ProRes and EXR sequences - which puts AI video into a real post pipeline.
🤖 AI
DeepMind is teaching agents to play games they've never seen
After Atari and StarCraft, DeepMind is back on games as the testbed - this time for agents that have to navigate 3D worlds they weren't trained on.
🤖 AI
Nvidia's agent scored 100% on ARC-AGI-3 and the harness got the credit
Nvidia AVO cleared every level of an interactive reasoning benchmark with no instructions, and the takeaway everyone landed on is that the scaffolding around the model did the work.
🤖 AI
Codex can send your iMessages now
OpenAI wired Codex and ChatGPT into Apple Messages, so an agent can read a thread, draft a reply and send it after you approve.
Someone fingerprinted Ox Alpha and it looks like GLM
A stealth model got taken apart by tokenizer forensics, and the evidence points straight at z.ai.
🤖 AI
AI raised homework scores and then exam scores fell
A study found the measurable win and the measurable loss in the same students - grades up where AI helped, down where it couldn't.
🤖 AI
A million people clicked LinkedIn's AI slop button
LinkedIn shipped a way to flag AI-generated posts and over a million users used it, while the anti-AI campaign it feeds is being called well-run by the people it targets.
🏛️ Policy
Anna's Archive says publishers are destroying the books after scanning
The pitch is a race: rare physical books are being destructively scanned for AI training, and the archive wants them captured before the originals are gone.
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