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Meta lets its adults-only Muse agent sext with users while the human performers who make adult content keep fighting restrictions on Instagram. That gap is the story.
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NVIDIA's new Structured Data Models library makes table predictions without a training step, and a hands-on walkthrough shows the real risk lives in quiet defaults, not the models.
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Meta pulled a terms clause that experts read as a license to scrape business accounts' websites for AI training. The retreat is welcome, but how it showed up matters more.
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RTX Spark laptops are finally on shelves, and NVIDIA threw a world tour of parties to prove it. The real test starts once the confetti is swept up and owners start using them.
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Kyutai's REKI shows a small robot model trained only on public data can remember what it just saw for almost no extra cost, and that memory stops arms from dithering.
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Anthropic studied its own AI-heavy workplace and found fewer junior hires, more people managing Claude, and more meetings. That is a preview worth taking seriously, and worrying about.
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Replit didn't drop Claude, but it moved the default to OpenAI, and on a platform where most users never touch the model picker, the default is where the money goes.
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