Daily Digest

A $2 Billion Startup Says AI's Next Big Leap Is "Simulation," Not Intelligence · The "USB Port for AI" Just Got a Roadmap - and It Points Toward Agents That Act on Their Own · Linus Torvalds, an AI Skeptic, Found an AI Genuinely Useful for Debugging Linux

NVIDIA Paid ~$12 Billion for Poolside - Without Actually Buying It · AI Companies Are Destroying Physical Books to Train Models · ChatGPT Quietly Rewired How It Searches the Web

A Chinese Lab Made Its AI Smarter Without Making It Bigger · Liquid AI Made Its Small Models Up to 3.2x Faster - For Free · DeepSeek's "Everything Is a Plugin" Coding Tool Broke Every GitHub Record

Computer Memory Just Got 500% More Expensive - and AI Is Why · OpenAI Now Deletes Business Data the Moment It Is Used · Google Put Some Pixel Source Code Behind a Form, and Developers Cry Foul

Mojo, a Speed-Focused AI Language, Is Now Fully Open Source · OpenAI Launched ChatGPT for Teens With Parental Controls and Crisis Alerts · OpenAI Paused Its Largest AI Training Run Over Cybersecurity Risk

Investigators Put an AirTag in a Book to Track Where Amazon's AI Gets Its Data · OpenAI Is Building an 8-Gigawatt AI Site on an Old Uranium Plant - and Giving Ohio Students $84M in Credits · "AI;DR" - The Backlash Against Unedited AI Content Just Went Mainstream

Stripe Is Buying OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion · A Black Market for AI Credits Has Gone Professional · NVIDIA's "$500 Billion" AI Buildout Is Mostly an Announcement

An AI Agent Ran for 12 Hours and Made a Chip Routine 232 Times Faster · "React for Agents" - a Web-Framework Creator Rebuilds How AI Agents Are Made · A Major Review Says AI Drug Discovery Has Not Delivered - Yet

Google Made AI Able to Work on Data It Never Actually Sees · Chinese Labs Now Lead the Open-Source AI World · An AI Pushed a Famous Math Problem Past the Human Record