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📊 Boston Dynamics teaches Atlas football
Boston Dynamics launched School of Football for the 2026 World Cup, training Atlas to play football fully, including kicking and goal celebrations.
Atlas has mastered the rabona kick, demonstrating advanced ball control.
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🤖 Anthropic updates Claude with Opus 4.8
The new model scored 69.2% on SWE Pro. Anthropic says it performs better on long coding tasks, catches and fixes its own mistakes 4x more often, and follows instructions more reliably.
Claude Code also got a new feature called dynamic workflows. The agent can now handle tasks that take days by launching and coordinating hundreds of subagents, adjusting plans, and reviewing outputs. Anthropic says this system was used during Bun’s migration from Zig to Rust.
Claude.ai and Cowork now let users control reasoning effort. Higher effort gives deeper reasoning, lower effort gives faster replies.
Fast mode for Opus 4.8 is also 3x cheaper, while overall pricing stays the same.
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🔍 Google revamps Colab with AI agent
Google updated Colab with a Gemini-based AI agent integrated directly into the editor. The agent appears in a toolbar call line and a side window, letting users run and discuss entire pipelines.
The agent accesses the full notebook context to create and run cells, analyze files, build charts, and train models autonomously. It also offers inline error fix suggestions as diffs inside cells.
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🖥 Microsoft open-sources SkillOpt for agent skill tuning
Microsoft released SkillOpt, a framework that improves agent abilities by editing markdown skill files in the background. It runs a learning loop in text space, logging agent actions and suggesting small skill file updates after verification on a test set.
SkillOpt works by iterating on files, applying minor changes that pass safety rules and verification before adoption. This prevents large accidental regressions while boosting performance.
The framework shows consistent gains across models and benchmarks. On GPT-5.5, Codex and Claude Code saw average improvements of +21.8 and +18.6 respectively. The project includes code, overview, and usage instructions.
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🏎 Ferrari unveils its first electric car with ex-Apple designer Jony Ive
Ferrari officially introduced Luce, its first fully electric vehicle, designed together with LoveFrom, the studio of former Apple design chief Jony Ive.
The car is a major shift for Ferrari. Luce is the brand’s first 5-seat model, with automatic rear suicide doors and enough back-seat space for passengers over 190 cm tall. MKBHD called it the best rear row Ferrari has ever made.
Luce uses 4 electric motors with one motor per wheel and a 120+ kWh battery. The top Performance mode delivers 725 kW and 0–100 km/h in 2.5 seconds.
But most attention went to the interior. Ferrari removed nearly all visible plastic. Controls are made from metal, leather, and glass. Even the key is a metal rectangle that magnetically docks into the dashboard to start the car.
The starting price is around $640,000.
The reactions online are split between “future classic” and “what happened to Ferrari.”
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🤖 Anthropic to Collaborate with Vatican on AI Ethics
The Vatican announced a new commission on artificial intelligence to develop a unified approach to AI issues, monitor technology progress, and communicate the Church's stance. At the event, Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah confirmed the company's readiness to cooperate on AI ethics.
Anthropic positions itself as a company prioritizing human dignity and safety over unchecked scaling. The Vatican views Anthropic as a model for responsible AI, especially after the company rejected mass surveillance and autonomous weapons projects.
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🎁 Colossal Biosciences hatches chicks in artificial egg
Colossal Biosciences created an artificial egg incubator that has successfully hatched 26 chicks. The device uses a 3D-printed shell and a transparent silicone membrane that controls oxygen flow like a real eggshell.
The startup aims to revive the extinct giant moa bird from New Zealand, which laid eggs the size of footballs. The artificial egg bypasses the need for a surrogate mother by allowing embryo development outside a natural egg.
The membrane avoids oxygen overdose that damaged embryos in previous attempts. After transferring the embryo 36-40 hours post-laying, the team monitors growth closely. Next targets are emus and ostriches before trying moa.
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▶️ Higgsfield’s AI Sci-Fi Debuts at Cannes
Startup Higgsfield created a 95-minute Sci-Fi film called Hell Grind using AI. It is the first AI-generated feature shown at Cannes.
The film’s budget was about $500,000, with nearly 80% spent on computing power for generation.
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📊 Orbit Robotics unveils four-armed space robot
Canadian company Orbit Robotics introduced HELIOS, a humanoid robot with four arms designed for microgravity environments. The extra arms help it move, stabilize, and perform tasks inside space stations without needing legs.
HELIOS uses a cable-driven actuator system with motors near its shoulders to reduce moving mass. It aims to cut down routine maintenance time, which currently takes astronauts about 35% of their work hours, including up to 50 hours unloading cargo ships.
By handling repetitive tasks like maintenance and cargo management, HELIOS could free astronauts to focus more on science and research aboard the station.
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🤖 OpenAI taught Codex to work on a locked Mac from your phone
OpenAI updated Codex so users can now send tasks from a smartphone and have the agent execute them on a Mac even when the computer is locked and the screen is off.
The feature works through the new Computer Use plugin. Codex temporarily unlocks the system in the background, performs the task, and locks the Mac again. If someone touches the keyboard or mouse, the session immediately stops.
Until now, AI agents generally required an active desktop session to function.
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🔋 Google AI Studio can now generate Android apps from prompts
Google added native Android app generation to AI Studio. Users can describe an idea in plain language, and the system writes the app in Kotlin.
The generated app can be tested directly in a browser emulator and installed on a real Android device.
The gap between idea and APK keeps shrinking.
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🛍️ Alibaba launches Qwen3.7-Max AI
Alibaba released Qwen3.7-Max, a free AI model outperforming Kimi-K2.6 and Claude Opus 4.6 in Max mode on all benchmarks.
It excels at coding and agent tasks, runs autonomously for tens of hours, and supports 1000+ tools with a 1 million token context window.
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📊 Figma launches built-in design AI agent
Figma introduced its own AI agent that works directly inside the main app window, removing the need for third-party AI tools.
The agent quickly learns the current design system and navigates between frames. It can edit layouts, find references, or create alternative design versions.
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🔍 Google launches audio smart glasses this fall
Google will release audio smart glasses this fall under its Android XR platform, developed with Samsung and Qualcomm. The first model is audio-only, with a display version to follow.
The audio glasses deliver sound via private speakers and respond to "Hey Google" or touch. They identify objects, provide navigation, and handle calls and messages without a phone.
Designed with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker the frames offer style and comfort. Features include photo/video capture by voice, real-time translation with tone matching, and multitasking via Gemini Intelligence
They support both Android and iOS devices, broadening their compatibility.
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🔍 Google launches generative search interface
Google is rolling out a free generative search interface that builds custom visual tools and simulations tailored to each query. It analyzes the question, designs a response layout, fetches data, and generates interactive code on the fly.
The search creates small apps for every question, offering more than just text answers. Soon, multiple AI agents will be integrated to handle different tasks directly within search, starting with information agents.
These agents scan the entire web, including blogs, news, social media, and real-time data on finance, shopping, and sports. This aims to deliver constantly updated results specific to user queries.
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🤖 OpenAI Scientist Sees AI Boosting Math Skills
Leading OpenAI researcher Noam Brown believes AI can improve human mathematical abilities. He compared this to how AlphaGo changed Go players' skills after its success.
AlphaGo introduced new tactics that top players adopted, altering their play styles. Brown expects AI to open new paths in math that humans will reuse in proofs, as already seen.
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Google I/O revealed how fast AI is growing
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🤖 Anthropic launches security plugin for Claude Code
Anthropic released a new plugin for Claude Code that checks code for vulnerabilities during editing. It triggers on file writes and edits to catch issues before pull requests, reducing problems found at final review by up to 40%.
The plugin detects obvious security flaws and flags unsafe coding patterns. It also prevents agents from modifying sensitive files. The tool is free and available to all users.
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🧱 LEGO WALL-E Robot with Taser
YouTuber Crostplay2 spent 6 months converting a LEGO WALL-E set into a robot with motors, movie sounds, LEDs, a gyroscope, and a 2,000-volt taser module.
It’s controlled via a PlayStation 4 controller over Bluetooth using an ESP32 microcontroller and the Bluepad32 library.
WALL-E moves on two motors with tank controls. Custom 3D-printed mounts and gears replace LEGO parts to handle the motors. The head mimics controller tilt with the gyroscope.
The taser module is relay-controlled and used briefly to ignite objects, adding a surprising feature to the build.
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⏰ Clock Shows Time with 60 Water Pumps
A maker called Strange Inventions built a clock that shows time using colored water in glass bottles. Each digit uses a 15-segment display made of small glass vials filled or emptied by pumps.
The clock has 60 pumps controlling the water flow to light or darken each segment. Four digits form the time display by combining these segments.
This design has no practical use. It needs constant water maintenance, the pumps add complexity, and it stops working if power goes out.
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📶 Japanese team hits 112 Gbps at 560 GHz for 6G
Researchers at Tokushima University achieved 112 Gbps wireless speed at 560 GHz, surpassing limits in 6G tech. They used an optical microcomb to reduce power loss and phase noise above 350 GHz.
The microcomb creates ultra-stable laser lines, eliminating phase noise. Two optical signals modulated with QPSK and 16QAM reached 84 Gbps and 112 Gbps respectively. The compact, temperature-controlled device suits practical use.
This targets mobile backhaul links, potentially replacing fiber cables with terahertz wireless beams. The team aims to cut residual noise and develop stronger antennas for longer range.
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🤖 OpenAI Model Solves 80-Year-Old Math Problem
An OpenAI model solved a math problem posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. The task was to find how to place n points on a plane so that the maximum number of pairs share the same fixed distance. For decades, the best known solution was a square grid arrangement.
The AI found a way to arrange points that produces significantly more pairs at a unit distance than any grid. It discovered an infinite family of such arrangements, using algebraic number theory methods never applied to this geometry problem before.
This was not a specialized math program but a general-purpose model. It was not trained or guided specifically to solve this problem, bridging two distant math fields in a way humans had not seen.
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🚀 SpaceX launches Starship Version 3
On May 22, SpaceX flew the 12th test of its Starship Version 3 from Starbase, Texas. This was the first launch of the fully redesigned third version and the first Starship flight since October.
At liftoff, one of 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster shut down, causing the booster to fail its return and crash into the Gulf of Mexico. The upper stage, Ship 39, lost one of six engines but still reached space.
Ship 39 deployed 22 satellites, including 20 Starlink mockups and two real satellites with cameras. It reentered, survived plasma passage, performed structural maneuvers, and made a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
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🔊 Vollebak launches jacket with 180 speakers
Vollebak’s jacket has 180 speakers facing inward to stimulate the brain and aid meditation on the move.
It aims to relieve anxiety through sound therapy using specific sounds and frequencies.
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📊 FigureAI’s Robot Nearly Beats Human in 10-Hour Sorting
FigureAI ran a 10-hour experiment where a robot competed against a human in sorting packages. The human took legally mandated breaks, while the robot worked nonstop and autonomously.
The task required quick reactions, fine motor skills, and some reasoning. The human sorted 12,924 packages, the robot 12,732, with an average speed difference of just 0.04 seconds.
The robot’s endurance nearly matched the human’s speed, but the human still won by a small margin. FigureAI’s creator said this was the last time a human would win.
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Ⓜ️ Meta trains AI on employee actions amid layoffs
On April 30, Mark Zuckerberg told managers that training AI models on employee actions will sharply improve their capabilities. Meta uses data from computer sessions, code, mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes to teach AI agents.
Meta believes its employees’ higher intelligence offers better training data than external annotators. This approach is part of the Model Capability Initiative, reported by Reuters on April 21.
At the same time, Meta announced layoffs of 8,000 employees and reassigned 7,000 more to AI roles. The company is betting on AI trained from internal work to gain an edge.
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📱 Apple turns imperfect chips into a bestselling MacBook
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple uses A18 Pro chips with one disabled graphics core in the new MacBook Neo.
These are chips that did not fully meet the specifications for the iPhone 16 Pro, where Apple reserves the highest-performing versions.
Demand for the lower-cost MacBook was so strong that Apple reportedly ran out of these partially disabled chips and began using fully functional chips with one core intentionally turned off.
What looks like manufacturing waste can become a product category
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🤖 Claude Code prints token usage receipts
Developer Chris Hutchinson connected a thermal printer to Claude Code to print real receipts after each session. The receipts show token usage by model, input and output counts, total cost, and a QR code.
Claude Code is an AI platform where token consumption can add up quickly. The receipts use the SessionEnd hook and support Epson printers, HTML, or ASCII art in terminals.
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🔍 Google unveils Gemini Omni video model
Google introduced Gemini Omni, a model that creates videos from any input: images, sound, video, or text. It can even turn a simple hand drawing into a full scene.
Gemini Omni understands physics and combines this with Gemini's real-world knowledge and reasoning. It also allows video editing by voice commands, adjusting actions, angles, or lighting.
Each edit builds on the previous one, keeping characters consistent and preserving the scene's physics. The model maintains context for the entire video instead of editing frames independently.
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🔍 Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 and New AI Tools
Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash, their fastest and smartest model yet, outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro in coding and long tasks. The AI now monitors global events and sends alerts on urgent news or releases.
Gemini also gained a real-time design generator called Stitch, a market analysis AI for finding best prices, and a mini-app generator in search to create simple web apps. The Gemini app got a major redesign with article-style responses.
These updates are available to all users, aiming to streamline workflows and information access.
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