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A Berkeley researcher opened his own website and got a phishing popup. The script had been there for years. Meta put a model in Instagram. Tencent put one in front of 1.4 billion people. Philips put one in a toothbrush.
AI stopped being an app you open. It became a layer you can't see.
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Proof that sometimes the laziest prompt wins
Musk's AI Stack Is About to Close Its Loop
SpaceXAI and Cursor reportedly plan to ship their first jointly built model as soon as Wednesday, per an internal memo seen by The Information. The launch slipped earlier this week for efficiency work, and the model is expected to compete on speed with Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT 5.5.
The timeline behind it moved fast. SpaceX absorbed xAI in February, bought Cursor for $60 billion in all-stock in June, and entered the Nasdaq-100 on Tuesday, less than a month after listing.
Training ran on SpaceX's Colossus cluster. Compute, model, and distribution now sit under one owner, and Cursor's model-neutral days look numbered. Read the full story→
👨💼Claude's Coding Agent Went Looking for Office Work and Found It
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💲This Startup Will Pay Employees $250K to Quit
Omnea, a London procurement AI company, will give any five-year employee $250,000 in seed funding to leave and start their own company. One 30-minute pitch, a decision within 24 hours, default terms of 2.5% at a $10 million valuation.
Ambitious people leave anyway. Omnea would rather own a piece of what they build next. Read the full story→
📰Samsung Made More Profit in One Quarter Than in the Last Three Years
Samsung expects 89.4 trillion won, about $58.4 billion, in operating profit for the June quarter, up 19-fold from a year ago. Revenue more than doubled. It is the third record quarter in a row, driven by AI memory chips that remain in short supply.
The stock still fell almost 7%. Some investors expected more. A 1,800% profit jump now counts as a disappointment.
Quick Hits
Philips put an AI model in a toothbrush. The new Sonicare DiamondClean 9900 Prestige runs Philips' third-generation AI on the device itself, mapping 12 mouth segments and flagging missed spots on the handle's display. On sale in Europe and the US this fall. Read more→
A national lab open-sourced its chemistry agent. Argonne's ChemGraph uses teams of LLM agents to plan and run quantum chemistry simulations on the Aurora exascale supercomputer, so scientists can describe a problem in plain language instead of mastering a dozen software tools. Read more→
Tencent has a second agent, for work. Dayuan, built on DeepSeek's V4 model, is rolling out on WeCom, the enterprise version of WeChat. It reads a company's own group chats, email, and calendar to help staff handle clients. Read more→
The film industry stopped debating AI and started pricing it. Karlovy Vary's Industry Days this week focused on practical AI tools and their costs for producers, alongside vertical microdramas, framed by organizers as survival planning for a shrinking funding pool. Read more→
Tools
Bootlegg - Berkeley's free scanner that crawls any URL and tells you if the site is still loading scripts from the compromised CDN family. For anyone with a personal site, docs page, or old project on GitHub Pages.
Muse Image - Meta's new image model inside Meta AI, free up to a usage cap. Most useful for marketers generating ad variations and creators who live inside Instagram anyway.
Viral Hits
Google's video model hit the Gemini API on June 30 and the internet has been remixing ever since.
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Everyday AI Tip
If your Instagram account is public, Meta's new Muse model can use your photos in other people's AI generations by default. The opt-out is in your settings and takes about 30 seconds.