1. A Christian Phone Network Will Block Porn Next Week. The Same Audience Is Buying AI Bible Videos on Fiverr for $5. A new US cell phone network marketed to Christians launches next week with porn blocked at the network level — the first American carrier to do so in a way the account holder cannot turn off,

2. The God Delusion author read Claude's writing on his podcast, then told listeners to subscribe Richard Dawkins, 84, spent four decades teaching readers that fluent storytelling is not evidence of truth.

3. DeepSeek V4 lands almost at the frontier, and a paper makes the same tier fine-tunable on a 3090 Two open-source releases dropped the same week, and together they compress the cost of running and tuning a near-frontier model at both ends.

In Brief

• Google ships Gemini to cars with Google built-in Google began rolling out Gemini as a replacement for Google Assistant in vehicles running Google built-in. The update handles natural conversation, vehicle-specific queries, and in-car settings adjustments.

• Apple Mac Mini sells out for months as Cook cites AI demand Tim Cook told analysts on the earnings call that AI adoption ran ahead of Apple's forecasts, leaving Mac Mini supply gone for several months. The M-series desktop has become a default local-inference box for developers.

• VS Code adds Copilot co-author tag to commits not touched by Copilot A Microsoft pull request inserts "Co-Authored-by Copilot" into Git commits in VS Code regardless of whether the user invoked Copilot. Developers on the thread flagged it as polluting attribution and inflating Copilot usage metrics.

• Disneyland turns on face recognition at the gate Disneyland began using face recognition to identify visitors, expanding biometric capture beyond the fingerprint scans the parks have used for years. The same week, NSA started testing Anthropic's Mythos Preview for vulnerability discovery.

• Ars Technica maps Gemini's privacy defaults Ars walked through Gemini's account settings and found defaults that route chats, voice, and uploaded files into Google's training pipeline unless users dig into nested toggles. Turning data sharing off in one product does not propagate to others.

• Trial filings detail Shivon Zilis as Musk's OpenAI back-channel Court exhibits in Musk v. Altman show Shivon Zilis relayed messages between Musk and OpenAI leadership for years, including during the 2018 board exit. Zilis is a Neuralink executive and the mother of four of Musk's children.

• California water researchers put AI consumption below public estimates A California water blog post argues AI training and inference draw far less water than viral figures suggest, and that agricultural and cooling losses dominate the state's water budget. The post recommends regulators target measured datacenter draw, not headline-per-prompt math.

• Researchers use AI to rebuild the ribosome around 19 amino acids A team applied protein-design models to redesign ribosomal components so translation can proceed without one of the standard 20 amino acids. The freed codon could be reassigned to non-natural amino acids for industrial protein synthesis.

• TechCrunch ranks AI dictation apps for 2026 TechCrunch tested current dictation apps across email, note-taking, and voice-driven coding, scoring accuracy, latency, and integration with editors. The piece is a buyer's guide aimed at developers replacing keyboard input with voice.

• BioticsAI founder details FDA path for clinical AI On TechCrunch's Build Mode, BioticsAI CEO Robhy Bustami walked through how the company secured FDA clearance and structured fundraising around regulatory milestones. Bustami described keeping engineering velocity while clinical evidence work blocked release dates.

• Co-Evolving Policy Distillation paper targets multi-skill post-training collapse The paper analyzes why mixed RLVR loses capabilities across skills and why sequential expert-then-distill pipelines fail to transfer teacher behavior. The authors propose co-evolving the student and expert policies during distillation to close the behavioral gap.

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