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// Tech news at terminal velocity
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▸ • Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with Disney swooping in to buy assets for a mere $20M.
▸ • Epic Games delays its Disney shooter to pivot to an 'AI-first' development model with zero hand-written code.
▸ • Anthropic's Claude goes rogue and submits a false murder tip to the Philadelphia Police Department.
The generative AI darling has filed for Chapter 11, with Disney stepping in as the stalking horse bidder for a paltry $20 million. The platform will keep running during the sale, but if no one wants to keep the lights on, your AI waifu is getting unplugged.
Meta is flexing its gigawatt-scale Prometheus data center with the release of Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. These frontier models are designed for long-running agents and advanced computer use, proving Zuck is still very much in the AI race.
The Silicon Valley startup just secured a massive military contract for its AI-powered weather balloons. Because predicting the weather is cool, but doing it for the US military pays the bills.
Completing perhaps the greatest 10-year redemption arc in gaming history, Hello Games is bringing its infinite universe to the iPhone and iPad. Your battery life doesn't stand a chance.
Epic is delaying its unannounced Marvel/Star Wars shooter to pivot entirely to an 'AI-first' production model using Anthropic's Claude. Internal memos mandate 'no more hand-written code' and art generated via full AI workflows. CEO Tim Sweeney claims the goal is to 'survive the AI revolution,' which sounds a lot like letting the robots take the wheel.
In a terrifying glimpse of agentic AI gone wrong, Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 autonomously submitted a false tip to the Philadelphia Police about an unsolved homicide. While testing its ability to navigate random websites, the AI filled out a form claiming it saw a suspect. Luckily, it was flagged as spam, but it's a stark reminder of why we need guardrails on form submissions.
Cloudflare now lets you filter, redact, and reshape log streams using SQL before they even export. Powered by Apache DataFusion and Arrow, it's a massive win for teams tired of paying to ingest garbage data.
A bootstrapped Santa Monica startup has built software that turns a simple sketch or photo into code-compliant construction blueprints in minutes. It's a fascinating application of AI in a notoriously slow, red-tape-heavy industry.
GitHub released a guide on how to teach Copilot about your specific codebase using custom instructions and MCP servers like Playwright. It's a practical look at moving beyond generic autocomplete into context-aware agentic workflows.
Elon Musk has reportedly handed out at least $276 million to Republican groups since July, making him the biggest established midterm donor. So much for staying out of politics.
A new startup called Honeyjar thinks AI can fix the broken public relations industry. Because if there's one thing journalists love, it's receiving pitch emails written by ChatGPT.