Intelligent Machines 867

Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens.

• CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning
• Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
• Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
• Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands
• News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing)
• Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
• Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch
• Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell
• Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership
• SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion
• Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI
• Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
• Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding
• Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services
• Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
• This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts
• Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI
• Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War
• AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too
• Stanford’s AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
• New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer
• We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs
• This pasta sauce wants to record your family
• LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels
• Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
• Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison
• Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
• AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
• Depths of Wikipedia
• GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.
• Is Your Site Agent-Ready?
• Jeff's Gemini happy ending
• The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO’s Face

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• CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning
• Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
• Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
• Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands
• News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing)
• Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
• Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch
• Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell
• Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership
• SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion
• Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI
• Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
• Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding
• Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services
• Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
• This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts
• Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI
• Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War
• AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too
• Stanford’s AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
• New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer
• We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs
• This pasta sauce wants to record your family
• LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels
• Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
• Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison
• Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
• AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
• Depths of Wikipedia
• GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.
• Is Your Site Agent-Ready?
• The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO’s Face