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June 20 · Today
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Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permissi…

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TechCrunch angle: Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools… Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

1 hours ago
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TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout

TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.

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TechCrunch angle: TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products. Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

1 hours ago
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Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’

Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.

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TechCrunch angle: Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map… Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

4 hours ago
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The VergeSignal
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OpenAI is sticking more ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you generate images with Cha…

The visual ad format in ChatGPT
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The Verge angle: OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin… Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

6 hours ago
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Simon WillisonSignal
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Qwen3.8 27B addition in words

Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o to see how well it could "compute the sum but return the answer in words" across increas…

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mathematics angle: Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o… Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

19 hours ago
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The VergeSignal
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An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they coul…

An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
The VergeMedia

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The Verge angle: StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and… Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

28 hours ago
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OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’

By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.

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TechCrunch angle: By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning… Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

51 hours ago
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All the AI agents that can live in your text messages

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

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TechCrunch angle: We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for… Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

53 hours ago
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Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

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TechCrunch angle: Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make… Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

73 hours ago
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4DCodeBench: Benchmarking Agents on Inverse Graphics of Dynamic Scenes

We introduce 4DCodeBench, a benchmark for 4D inverse graphics through code generation, in which agents reconstruct dynamic scenes from video as executable graphics programs. To accomplish this, agents must translate vis…

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ArXiv angle: We introduce 4DCodeBench, a benchmark for 4D inverse graphics through code generation, in which agents reconstruct dynamic scenes… Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

73 hours ago
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FrugalEvo: Towards Cost-Aware LLM-Guided Program Evolution

LLM-guided evolutionary methods, such as AlphaEvolve, have emerged as powerful approaches for challenging computational optimization problems, such as circle packing. However, prior work typically optimizes performance…

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ArXiv angle: LLM-guided evolutionary methods, such as AlphaEvolve, have emerged as powerful approaches for challenging computational… Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

73 hours ago
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Do Large Language Models Know Colombian Law? A Reliability Benchmark for the Colombian Legal System

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support legal practice, education, and research, yet their reliability in national legal systems outside the United States remains largely undocumented. We introduce…

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ArXiv angle: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support legal practice, education, and research, yet their reliability in… Check the original before changing a build, vendor, or research decision.

74 hours ago