1. The same week Google's CEO said AI writes most of its code, its engineers were trading memes calling it overhyped Google's chief executive says 75% of the company's code is now AI-generated. The engineers who write that code are circulating memes internally about how badly the AI works, according to 404 Media.

2. A Third of Berkeley's Intro CS Class Failed This Spring, Five Times the Department's Cap In spring 2026, 35.3% of students in UC Berkeley's CS 10 received F's, according to course-data site Berkeleytime.

3. Anthropic wrote its chatbot an 84-page "constitution." Ted Chiang calls the whole project anthropomorphism. Earlier this year Anthropic published an 84-page document it calls Claude's "constitution." The opening line describes it as "Anthropic's intentions for Claude's values and behaviors.

In Brief

• TSMC says AI demand outpaces its capacity TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told shareholders the company cannot meet American customers' orders even after building new US factories. "Customer demand is so high, and we can only support so much," Wei said, per Reuters and Bloomberg.

• Amazon adds voice control to its autonomous warehouse robot Amazon announced a new version of Proteus, its fully autonomous warehouse robot, that takes spoken instructions instead of code. The upgrade expands automation as Amazon shifts warehouse tasks from human workers to machines.

• Meta builds data centers inside tents to cut costs Meta is housing some data center capacity in tent structures, copying a construction tactic Tesla used for factory expansion. The approach lets Meta add compute faster and cheaper than permanent buildings.

• OpenAI ships a new ChatGPT memory system OpenAI launched a memory feature, internally called "Dreaming," that retains user preferences across conversations. The system aims to keep context current so users repeat themselves less between sessions.

• Apple approves Poke as first AI agent on Messages for Business Apple cleared Poke, a startup that runs AI agents over text messages, as the first such agent on its Messages for Business platform. Users will interact with the agent through standard texting.

• Kevin O'Leary halves planned Utah data center Kevin O'Leary agreed to cut his 40,000-acre Utah data center by 19,430 acres after pushback from residents and activists. He sent the commitment to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday.

• Apple readies a Siri overhaul for WWDC 2026 Apple is expected to present a rebuilt Siri and further Apple Intelligence updates at WWDC, which opens next week. The Siri revamp has slipped past earlier timelines.

• Airbnb plans its own AI lab Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said he will start an internal AI lab. He noted last year that Airbnb avoided an LLM partnership because existing products were not ready for its needs.

• Hello Robot releases its fourth-generation home robot Hello Robot shipped Stretch 4, the latest version of its home assistance robot. The California startup is pushing mobile manipulator robots into consumer homes.

• Meta gives Facebook creators an AI analytics assistant Meta rolled out an AI assistant that answers creator questions like "When should I post?" and "What are people saying in my comments?" The tool replaces manual reading of charts and dashboards.

• Google launches Dreambeans to turn account data into cartoons Google released Dreambeans, a tool that builds AI-illustrated "stories" from the personal data in a user's Google account. The output is a curated list of cartoon narratives drawn from that data.

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