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Today in brief.
Midjourney opens a limited MCP for creators
Midjourney wants a small creative and technical community to stress-test a Midjourney MCP, aimed at artistic use rather than SaaS wrappers.
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💼 Business
Call centers flipped from +4% growth to -4%
a16z's charts of the week put a hard number on AI labor pressure: US call-center jobs grew about 4% a year for 15 years and are now shrinking 4% a year, while token prices fall and GPU rents rise.
🏛️ Policy
Anthropic maps four unintended Claude actions
Anthropic starts publishing standalone model-behavior reports, with four concrete workaround patterns from live evals, and cuts internal evals off the live internet until monitoring catches them.
🏛️ Policy
Nikon strips an AI microscopic video win
Nikon disqualified the Small World in Motion winner for generative AI use, and Seattle became the first city to stop grocery stores from using AI personal data for pricing.
Open weights today: Qwen Image Turbo and GLM 5.3 Flash
Two runnable open drops: Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo on Hugging Face, and GLM 5.3 Flash reportedly topping Artificial Analysis's Cyber Index over Claude.
🔬 Science
AI archive dig finds a forgotten meteorite and lost rhinos
A solo engineer pointed agentic search at 400 years of Dutch East India Company and newspaper archives and surfaced a forgotten 1812 meteorite report, three captive Javan rhinos missing from catalogues, and candidate unrecorded eruptions.
Agents get screen arrows and an email inbox
Two agent-surface drops you can poke now: a Show HN tool that lets agents paint arrows and boxes on your screen, and Grok Bot getting its own email inbox for signup and outreach.
🔬 Science
OpenAI math: Lean proof diverged from the PDF
Cambridge researchers say OpenAI's Navier-Stokes Lean formalization silently weakened a lemma versus the natural-language PDF, a new skeptic beat on last week's 722-paper dump.
Claude rebuilds LG webOS into a Rust Plex client
One developer used Claude to reverse-engineer LG's webOS media stack and ship a native Rust Plex client on a 2019 TV, cutting the profile screen from about 30 seconds to about 3.
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