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Today in brief.
Communities draw hard lines on AI
r/opensource banned any project that uses AI, Nikon stripped a Small World in Motion winner over AI-looking cilia, and a 'poison the LLMs' font went viral even though it doesn't work.
🎬 Media
AI video: relight any clip, and Grok's 7-minute Odyssey
Beeble's SwitchX 2 swaps backgrounds and relights real video well enough that Justine Moore says she's done with podcast studios, while Grok Imagine dropped a 7-minute Episode 1 of its Odyssey series.
🤖 AI
Try today: a multiplayer AI-built racer, Hey Grok on iPhone, free caselaw RAG
Aravind Srinivas' SF 2049 racer built with Perplexity Computer is now multiplayer, someone got 'Hey Grok' wake-word working on iPhone, and CaseCite is a free open-source legal research tool.
A 10-year-old CNN beats GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 at skin cancer
A Guy's Hospital dermatologist gave 200 biopsy-proven lesions to two frontier LLMs and a 2015 image model fine-tuned for about 20 minutes, and the old specialist won 62% to 42%.
💼 Business
Frontier tokens got up to 80% cheaper since June
Max Woolf lays out the OpenAI vs Anthropic price war: GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/$10, Opus 5.5 at $4/$20, Luna cut 80%, and Vercel's gateway shows cost per token at 43.3% of April.
🔬 Science
How Cerebras runs a 3T-parameter model on 59 wafers
Cerebras explains how it fits open-source Kimi K3 into on-chip memory across 59 wafer-scale chips to serve 1,000 to 2,000+ tokens a second.
🔧 Tech
Open models: a 33B agent and accent TTS built for phone lines
Nanbeige4.3-33B posts 80.9 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 against Qwen3.8-27B's 73.0, and Hurston-1 is an open 3B TTS for Southern American and African English accents that outputs phone-ready audio.
🔬 Science
A Fields medalist stops grading homework
Richard Borcherds at UC Berkeley now grades homework on completion only because so many students get top scores with AI, and says he no longer knows what to advise math students.
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