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🤖 Karpathy Wants AI to Stop Writing TextKarpathy suggests asking AI to explain complex topics in ASD-STE100 simplified English, with short sentences and little ambiguity. For harder subjects, a diagram or a custom HTML page can work better than plain text.Modern models can already build one-off int...

🍏 Apple’s Camera Will Not Record VideoApple is reportedly developing J450, a small cylindrical home security camera with a very low frame rate. AI analyzes what its sensor sees and produces only text descriptions, such as someone entering a room. Face recognition is also expected.J450 is designed a...

🤖 ChatGPT Gets Virtual Try-OnOpenAI added virtual try-on to ChatGPT. When a clothing product card appears, tap “Try on” and upload a selfie plus a full-body photo. ChatGPT Images 2.5 generates the result.The feature can also use clothing screenshots, not just items suggested by the bot. Favorite pi...

🍟 McDonald’s AI Suggests Local Big Mac PricesIn Fresno, a Big Mac costs $5.69 at one McDonald’s and $6.89 at another 2 miles away. That is a 21% gap, linked by Reuters to the chain’s AI pricing system.The system seeks an “optimal price” for each US restaurant and some overseas markets, based on loc...

📹 HeyGen launches its first video modelThe model generates clips from text, animates an image, or uses another video as a reference for motion and visual style. Audio is created with the video, including speech, background sound, and effects.It runs on MiniMax H3, with additional training by HeyGen...

🤖 Anthropic Adds Robots to the AI Risk MapAnthropic estimates that robots can already perform 74% of physical work tasks in the US under at least some conditions. With LLMs added, the figure reaches 81% of all work.The most exposed roles are mostly vehicle operators. Waste sorting is another exampl...

🍏 Apple May Break Its September CycleAccording to Bloomberg, new CEO John Ternus wants Apple to release products more often than at its major autumn and spring presentations. He says faster launches and more experiments are needed to stay competitive in the AI era.Ternus is also considering fewer m...

✍️ White House AI deal has a typoThe world’s biggest AI companies signed a safe AI agreement with the White House.But under Donald Trump’s signature, “president of the United States” became “president unites the States.”📊@tech

🧠 DeepSeek Builds Software for Huawei ChipsThe companies open-sourced tools for Huawei Ascend, now the main Chinese AI accelerators used by local startups. The software gap is the hard part: the industry has spent 10+ years writing for Nvidia CUDA.The release includes DeepGEMM for matrix multiplica...

🤖 Robot Data Is the IROS ThemeAt IROS 2026, 8 dedicated sessions focus on VLA models, which turn an image and text instruction into robot actions. Force and tactile sensing also appear throughout because cameras alone are not enough for dexterous work.Diffusion and flow matching now generate robot ...

🤖 ChatGPT adds a $500 tierThe plan gives 25x the limits of Plus and unlocks Astra’s Ultrafast mode, which runs 8x faster.Just before that, OpenAI quietly halved limits on the $200 plan.📊@tech

🤖 OpenAI Shows Dots AgentsBuilt on GPT-6 Astra, Dots take on work tasks in the background and notify users on a PC or smartphone when they are ready.Users can give an agent a unique name and connect it to software, including calendars and messaging apps. Dots will appear inside ChatGPT, with one ag...