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Today in brief.
Lattice is Cursor for research papers
Leonardo open-sourced a local Mac app that keeps your LaTeX, citations, Overleaf co-authors, slides and your own coding agent in one window.
🎬 Media
A 14B video+audio model that runs in 6 steps
Video Rebirth compressed MiniMax-H3 from about 31B parameters down to 13.7B, so a 5-second clip can run in about a minute and a half on a 5090.
💼 Business
Chip stocks fell as far as they did in Covid
A chart of the AI sell-off shows the S&P is only about 6% off its record, while US chip stocks are down 36%, matching their Covid drop, and AMD's CEO just said the company is data center first.
🔬 Science
A supermarket robot in Zurich, and Figure's HQ fills with humanoids
A Reddit post says Theseus Robotics' wheeled humanoid Theo is restocking a Zurich supermarket at night, while new videos show dozens of Figure 03s walking the company's campus.
Don't Ask Again left secrets in 1,122 GitHub files
Apiiro found that Claude Code can save the exact shell command you approved, password included, and 1,122 public copies of that settings file on GitHub hold at least one secret.
🔬 Science
One county now gets 40% of its budget from data centers
Loudoun County, Virginia, home of Data Center Alley, says data centers brought in $1.2 billion in fiscal 2026, 39% of the whole county budget, with 40% projected next year.
🏛️ Policy
Brave sold its search index to AI labs, and you cannot block its crawler by name
The New York Times sued Brave for copying more than 30 billion pages and selling that index to AI companies, and Brave's crawler has no distinct name you can put in robots.txt.
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