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• RidgeText's Allan Bogh Moves Map Data Out of the LLM Context Window

  The SMS outdoor assistant now renders wildfire and trail overlays by letting the model queue layers while server-side code handles GeoJSON.

• Dario Amodei's Mythos bet is hitting the public CVE record

  Epoch AI found a June spike in serious vulnerability disclosures, but the data shows a bottleneck Anthropic still has to clear: patching.

• Head to head: CogVideoX-5B vs Luma Ray 3.2 Image to Video

  This matchup wasn’t especially close. CogVideoX-5B can sell atmosphere, but Luma Ray 3.2 Image to Video is the model that actually follows the shot list, preserves continuity, and lands the prompt’s specific beats.

• The British Are Coming for the Algorithm, and YouTube Wants Creators to Mobilize

  The UK proposal is a consultation, not a law, but it puts creator reach inside a fight over who controls video discovery.

• Musk says he has 'wised up' in reply to the 'takers' having the right to vote

  Musk's reply did not happen in a vacuum: the world's richest man has already been tied to a $1 million voter-registration giveaway that court filings later said involved handpicked MAGA supporters, not a random drawing.

• World of ClaudeCraft pushes vibe-coded games into live AI play

  Levy Street's browser game is open source, token-linked and now being used to test AI agents inside a shared MMO world.

• Claude Fable 5 generated a pure C++ Vampire Survivors-style demo, Lentils says

  The X demo claims the game was produced in two prompts, with sprites, sounds, graphics and music generated at runtime from C++ code.

• Claude Fable helped Ammaar Reshi bring Command & Conquer Generals to Mac / iPhones

  The open-source fork runs the 2003 RTS on Apple Silicon, iPhone and iPad, but users still need their own EA game assets.

• Julio Merino takes EndBASIC closer to 1.0 with sound and richer graphics

  The Rust-based BASIC environment adds BEEP, SOUND, script execution, a retro VGA font and a macOS SDL fix in version 0.14.0.

• YouTube's AI can be tricked into leaking private video titles, researcher says

  Security researcher Javox says Google rejected the report as social engineering, exposing a policy gap around AI-driven creator tools.

• Citizen Lab says Pegasus hacked an EU lawmaker investigating Pegasus

  Stelios Kouloglou's iPhone was infected in 2022 and 2023 while he sat on the European Parliament's spyware inquiry committee.

• Midjourney wants Hollywood to open its AI files

  A new motion asks a judge to widen discovery beyond AI work that resulted in consumer-facing images or videos.

• America's best invention is permission

  The republic's most valuable technology was never a gadget. It was the permission to argue, fail, move and build at continental scale.

• Sysdig says JADEPUFFER carried out ransomware with an AI agent

  Sysdig's report sharpens Loris Degioanni's runtime thesis: attackers can chain old cloud flaws without a human operator.

• Okhai's Foundation builds a stricter stack for AI-era software

  The public Ovasabi repo pairs Go, Rust/WASM and TypeScript with agent rules, performance gates and a license that limits AI training.

• Head to head: grok-4.3 vs mistral-small-2503

  This matchup wasn’t especially close: one model consistently did the unglamorous, high-value work of following instructions and getting edge cases right, while the other kept leaking avoidable mistakes. Across coding, writing, extraction, and formatting discipline, the gap showed up in concrete ways.

• Dario Amodei's Samsung chip talks put Anthropic deeper into the compute business

  Anthropic has not picked a chip use case, server design or production path, but its Samsung discussions show how Claude demand is pulling the lab toward silicon.

• Sebastian Jimenez is paying Rilla employees $18,000 to live near the office

  The Rilla CEO ties the stipend to a 72-hour, in-office culture built around speed, sales coaching and physical proximity.

• Hirotaka Sato's cyborg cockroach can now work underwater for three hours

  NTU and Waseda researchers built a flexible 3D-printed oxygen suit for remote-controlled insects in flooded disaster zones.

• Bilawal Sidhu turns Meta Ray-Ban footage into a 4D scene with Claude Fable 5

  The ex-Google AR/VR PM says IronSight was made from two pairs of smart-glasses footage after a few hours of experiments.

• Mistral opens Leanstral 1.5 in a bet on machine-checked AI

  Arthur Mensch's Paris lab says the Lean 4 model solves 587 PutnamBench problems and found five previously unreported bugs.

• The Sportsbook Is Recruiting the Next Founder Before Startups Do

  The same edge-seeking psychology that produces builders is being monetized by betting apps before many young people ever ship a product.

• Wafer pushes GLM-5.2 Fast onto AMD as Nvidia inference costs bite

  The six-person inference startup says MI355X tuning got GLM-5.2 to 2626 tok/s/node, with Vercel and OpenRouter now carrying the model.

• Head to head: CogVideoX-5B vs Happy Horse 1.1 Image to Video

  One model showed up; the other barely produced viewable video. Across both prompt-following tests, Happy Horse 1.1 Image to Video delivered recognizable scenes, action, and mood, while CogVideoX-5B collapsed into unusable output.