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🔍 Apple plans an AI search engine for Siri
📱 Instagram launches an iPad app after 15 years
🤖 Tesla reveals new Optimus prototype with Grok AI
⚖️ Scale AI sues former employee and rival Mercor
🤝 Atlassian acquires The Browser Company for $610 million
🌍 New AI turns photos into explorable 3D worlds
🎁 + 13 other news you might like
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| 🔍 Apple plans an AI search engine for Siri LINK
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- Apple is developing an AI search feature for Siri, internally named "World Knowledge Answers", that will summarize web results using text, photos, video, and other multimedia elements.
- The company plans to power the new tool with a Google-developed model that will be hosted on Apple's own secure Private Cloud Compute servers instead of on Google's cloud.
- Sources claim Apple also considered a partnership with Anthropic for its Claude models, but the firm reportedly asked for $1.5 billion a year, a higher price than what Google wanted.
| 📱 Instagram launches an iPad app after 15 years LINK
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- After nearly 15 years, Instagram has launched an official iPad app that is optimized for larger screens, replacing the stretched-out iPhone layout that people previously had to use.
- The new interface is built for the tablet, defaulting to the Reels screen and showing comments beside videos or letting you view a conversation next to your main chat list.
- Its Feed offers three viewing modes called "All," "Friends," and "Latest," which let you see recommended posts, content from mutuals, or just a simple chronological timeline.
| 🤖 Tesla reveals new Optimus prototype with Grok AI LINK
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- A video on X reveals Tesla's next-generation Optimus prototype answering questions from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, demonstrating its early integration with the company's Grok artificial intelligence assistant.
- The new prototype has a fresh gold color and features hands that are much more detailed than previous versions, although they appear non-functional and similar to mannequin hands in the footage.
- Tesla previously said its next-generation hands would have actuators in the forearm operating the fingers through cables, a crucial improvement for performing both delicate and more imposing tasks.
| ⚖️ Scale AI sues former employee and rival Mercor LINK
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- Scale AI is suing competitor Mercor and former employee Eugene Ling, alleging he stole more than 100 confidential documents with customer strategies and proprietary information for the rival company.
- The suit claims Ling committed a breach of contract by trying to pitch Mercor's services to one of Scale's largest clients, identified only as "Customer A," before leaving his job.
- Mercor's co-founder denies using any trade secrets but admits Ling possessed old files in a personal Google Drive, stating his company offered to destroy the documents before the lawsuit.
| 🤝 Atlassian acquires The Browser Company for $610 million LINK
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- Atlassian is buying The Browser Company for $610 million in cash, acquiring the new AI-focused Dia browser to connect its popular work apps like Jira and Confluence together.
- The deal gives Dia the distribution and sales team needed to compete, shifting its focus from personal tasks to exclusively serving individual users in a professional setting at their jobs.
- While Dia becomes a work-focused tool, the original Arc browser will only be maintained and not actively developed, with its future now uncertain under the new company ownership.
| 🌍 New AI turns photos into explorable 3D worlds LINK
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- Tencent's new AI, HunyuanWorld-Voyager, creates explorable video from a single image by generating 3D-consistent scenes that users can navigate using a defined camera path for movement.
- The model simultaneously produces RGB video and depth information, which can be converted into 3D point clouds for reconstruction, though it stops short of creating true 3D models.
- To learn this effect, Voyager was trained on over 100,000 video clips, including computer-generated scenes from Unreal Engine, teaching it to imitate camera motion in game environments.
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Trending research and tools
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Microsoft BASIC for 6502: the source code for the influential programming language that powered many early personal computers and made coding accessible to a mass audience. LINK
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Hledger 1.50: a plain-text accounting tool update that makes transaction balancing more robust by using only the precisions found within each individual journal entry. LINK
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Entropy-Guided Loop: an approach that improves AI reasoning by using a model's uncertainty about its own words to create self-correcting loops for more accurate answers. LINK
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λar: a Racket macro that allows anonymous functions to call themselves, simplifying the process of adding recursion without needing to assign a formal name. LINK
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Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to Be Agent-First: this paper argues that data systems need to be fundamentally redesigned to serve autonomous AI agents as their primary users, rather than humans. LINK
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