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NVIDIA’s cuDF Spark skills turn UDF rewrites into an agent loop—and one production example cut operator time from 274.55 hours to 12.78 on a 600-billion-row job.
The Verge’s account of the OpenAI bug case adds DOJ detail: CCTV near the executive TV, a second device in a bag, and OpenAI saying its models helped trace the plant.
A federal judge gave Apple fast access to OpenAI interview materials on ex-Apple hires—narrowing the fight to how talent, and knowledge, moved ahead of OpenAI hardware.
Google’s Argon safety note centers misuse defenses, a real-time misalignment monitor, and prompt-injection hardness—after giving cyber defenders a head start.
Shopify is letting shoppers point any AI agent at its billion-plus listings via Shop—human approval still required, platform power shifting toward agent checkout.
In Parliament, OpenAI and Anthropic backed binding AI safety rules while Google DeepMind and Meta would not—exposing a split Britain’s voluntary regime cannot paper over.
Xbox Labs will explore AI-assisted decompiles and remixes in the open—player upside is real, and so is the IP collision course with unauthorized ports.
Meta brings Instagram’s “Your Algorithm” to Facebook—natural-language feed steering that sounds like user power and works like better engagement machinery.
Victoria Song’s Verge review finds Meta’s $349 audio-only Ray-Bans socially easier to wear—useful as open-ear headphones, still thin as an AI product.
The Verge’s take on Your Algorithm stresses Meta’s deeper LLM ranking: an algorithm you can talk to, updating recommendations inside the same session.
AI Studio projects can land in a private Play “Personal Library”—no public listing, optional friend sharing later, and a path to real developer publishing.
TechCrunch: US adults can vibe-code in AI Studio and launch private Android apps through Play with a normal Google account—invisible to public search.