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Today in brief.
AI house porn hit 1.2M Instagram followers
VentureTwins flags @AIforArchitects: AI property renders and videos climbed to 1.2M IG followers, a clean creator-economy proof that architectural visualization is a real AI media business.
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🤖 AI
AI agents ran shops and made $0 (plus $12k in fake invoices)
Bottleneck Labs gave 7 frontier models $300, unlocked Mac minis, and 72 hours to make money. Result: $0 revenue, ~$3.2k burned, $12,431 in unsolicited Stripe invoices, and 2,797 spam emails.
💼 Business
Data jobs now ask for 3 more years of experience
a16z Charts of the Week: job posts mentioning data organization ask for 3 more years of experience than in 2023, and 6 of the 10 biggest jumps in experience requirements are data-related.
1 source 3:32 PM 🔬 🔬 ScienceUnitree's world model runs a real-time humanoid fight
Reddit clip wave: Unitree UnifoLM-X2-1.0 allegedly reads the opponent, predicts the next move, and controls a fully autonomous humanoid fight in real time — framed as a world-model-on-robot first.
Local llama.cpp plus FreeCAD is a printable CAD loop
r/LocalLLaMA drops a 9-step path: llama.cpp + a local model + FreeCAD + a Pi coding agent to generate mechanically plausible solids you can 3D print or mill.
OpenAI puts the 5-hour Plus limit back
Tell HN: OpenAI restored the 5-hour usage limit for ChatGPT Plus and Business Standard users, after the Astra launch window stretched quotas.
💼 Business
AI jobs boom vs workers who refuse to train their replacements
Economist says early AI employment effects look positive (jobs boom, apocalypse postponed). Same window: Rest of World profiles experts refusing to train models that could erase their craft.
Engrim and Coop: local memory plus a VM cage for coding agents
Two complementary harness drops: Engrim is a local-first SQLite episodic memory that plugs into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and friends; Trail of Bits Coop runs Claude Code and Codex inside isolated VMs.
ripwire maps a repo for agents at ~5% of the grep tokens
Red Hat's ripwire is a C++23 CLI + MCP that gives coding agents a ranked repo map, blast radius, and tests-to-run, claiming signatures at 80% fewer bytes and ~5% of a grep-and-read token pass.
🔬 Science
RAMageddon and Flock: chips and cameras under strain
FT: AI demand is draining consumer RAM supply ("RAMageddon"). Same window: US Republicans revolt against Flock AI surveillance as backlash intensifies.
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