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Today in brief.
Atlas gets its own factory floor
Boston Dynamics shows the in-house shop that builds Atlas humanoids at speed, and NVIDIA's AlphaNIST gets robots to learn assembly from simple pass/fail rewards.
🔧 Tech
Try today: port a Windows app to Linux, Claude Code fixes
Perplexity Computer took a Windows-only keyboard app, decompiled it in a sandbox and rebuilt it as a native Rust Linux app, and Claude Code shipped 278 changes in two days.
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🎬 Media
AI audio grows up: Grok Voice 3 and labels on AI songs
Grok Voice 3.0 claims the top speech-to-speech spot at under a second, Mirelo ships scene-true sound effects for AI video, and YouTube Music and Deezer start labeling and filtering AI tracks.
🔬 Science
Old GPUs are now appreciating assets
An a16z chart shows used GPUs gaining value as compute stays scarce, ASML's orders beat fears, but banks are struggling to offload $38B of AI data center debt.
🤖 AI
Agents are now half of EU business AI use
OpenAI says more than half of its EU business customers' AI use now runs through agents and small-business users grew 8x, while a16z lays out how agents get priced on outcomes instead of seats.
+26 sources 12:10 PMOpen weights day: Nemotron Bolt and a 35B model on a phone
NVIDIA's Nemotron Bolt 3.5 (74B total, 9B active) is due today, MiniCPM-V 4.7 demos a 35B multimodal model on a phone in about 3GB, and a new read says China's open models trail US closed ones by just 7 months.
🤖 AI
Did an AI agent erase a whole TV season?
Swedish press blamed an AI agent for wiping an edited season of The Challenge; TV4 says a backup failed, and security experts say most 'rogue agent' stories are basic containment failures.
🔬 Science
AI starts doing the science: fusion, physics, enzymes
In one day, AI extended a fusion result, reportedly aced 49 of 50 unpublished physics problems, designed working enzymes from scratch, and stretched weather forecasts to six weeks.
🏛️ Policy
Eight states sue OpenAI, and free models break image filters
Eight US states sued OpenAI over ChatGPT and kids, while White Circle showed an uncensored open model can still jailbreak OpenAI and Google image filters, worse on the newest versions.
🏛️ Policy
AI vs scammers: on-device Gemma and bait bots
Singapore is fine-tuning Gemma to catch local scams on the phone, Android flags scammers in Google Messages, and Apate's bots pose as victims and have burned 17 years of scammers' time.
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