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AI Agents Could Soon Tidy Up Their Own Memory Mid-Task
A new system from Apple ML Research lets an AI agent decide for itself when to compress its own working memory, stopping it from forgetting important details at the worst possible moment.

A $16 AI Training Run Built Six Models Nobody Had Made Yet
A Hugging Face tool called ML Intern let one developer train, evaluate and publish six specialist AI models in a couple of days, spending less than the cost of a restaurant meal.

The Better AI Behaves, the Worse It Writes
Researchers have found a sharp tension at the heart of AI language tools: the better you control what a chatbot says, the more likely it is to start talking gibberish. Here's what that means for the apps you use every day.

AI Is Doing the Grunt Work. Now Companies Can't Find Anyone Who Knows How It's Done.
From ad agencies to banks, employers are hiring fewer entry-level staff as AI handles research, drafting and admin. The worry is that a generation of workers may gain AI-enabled speed without ever building the judgement underneath it.

OpenAI Wants to Own the Road From Campus to Career. Should Universities Fight Back?
A growing number of academics say AI companies are quietly inserting themselves between students and the job market. The consequences could be serious.

The Music Startup That Deliberately Kept AI Out of Its Apps
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya raised $5.5 million to build playful music tools. Its founder, a former Spotify head of innovation, thinks human taste gets more valuable as AI-generated songs get cheaper.

Your manager is rehearsing the bad news with AI before they call you in
A new wave of AI coaching tools lets managers role-play difficult conversations, from pay freezes to layoffs, before the real thing. Here's what that means for workers on both sides of the desk.

AI is already changing cricket. A robot bowling the perfect doosra is still a long way off
From scouting reports to pitch analysis, artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping the sport. But it is helping humans do their jobs better, not replacing them.

Claude Can Now Write Your Docs and Build Your Slides Without Leaving the Chat
Anthropic is adding document and presentation tools directly inside Claude chats, letting users create, share, and edit files without switching to another app.

Anthropic Puts Claude's Chat, Cowork and Artifacts Into One Window
Claude users no longer need to choose between tabs. One window now handles chat, collaborative work and design, with new presentation and document features on the way.

A Fruit Fly's Brain Is Now Generating Magazine Story Ideas, and It's Not as Crazy as It Sounds
Researchers mapped every neuron in a real fly's brain and open-sourced it. Now people are using that map to pitch articles, trade stocks, and play video games. Wired AI's Will Knight reports on where this is actually heading.

Someone Rebuilt the World's Most Popular AI Image Tool Inside a Single Browser Canvas
Hugging Face's Workflow1111 squeezes eleven image and video pipelines into one draggable graph, and you can run the whole thing without owning a GPU.

Microsoft built an AI tool to pull Salesforce customers onto its own software
A new Microsoft product called Dynamics 365 Activate uses AI to analyse your existing Salesforce setup and map out everything that needs to move, change, or be rebuilt before you switch.

Students Who Use AI to Study Tend to Score Lower, Global Report Finds
A 760,000-student OECD study found that AI use generally hurt academic performance, but the picture changes when students are taught to question what the AI tells them.

ChatGPT Can Now Turn Your Doodle Into a Photo
OpenAI's new Sketch tool lets you scribble inside ChatGPT and watch the AI turn your rough drawing into a polished image. A faster image engine comes along for the ride.