Today's Hallucination HQOpenAI's Social Feed Was a Ghost Town, and Nobody Haunted It
OpenAI has shut down the Sora app — its experiment in building a social feed powered entirely by AI-generated video. The underlying Sora 2 model remains genuinely impressive, producing video and audio that would unsettle a reasonable person. The app, however, failed to attract sustained interest, which raises the question: if an AI generates a video in a social feed and nobody watches it, did it hallucinate? Apparently, yes.
Source: TechCrunch
Arm Builds Its First Chip at 35. Late Bloomer. Brilliant Timing.
After 35 years of designing chip architectures that power most of the world's smartphones, Arm has decided to actually make one itself. Its first in-house CPU was developed in partnership with Meta, which is also the first customer — making Meta simultaneously the collaborator and the guinea pig, a role it seems comfortable with. Whether this marks a new business direction or just a very expensive midlife project remains to be seen.
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Anthropic Gives Claude the Keys, But Keeps a Hand on the Wheel
Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant, now has an "auto mode" — meaning it can execute multi-step tasks without asking for human approval at every turn. Anthropic is at pains to note that safeguards remain firmly in place, which is precisely what you'd say if you were handing an extremely capable system more autonomy and hoping nobody panicked. The broader industry trend toward agentic AI — tools that act, not just advise — is accelerating. Productively, one assumes.
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Spotify Draws a Line Between Artists and Their AI Imposters
Spotify is testing a tool that lets artists control which tracks are associated with their name on the platform — a direct response to AI-generated music being quietly filed under real musicians' identities. It is, in essence, a bouncer for your discography. The problem of "AI slop" — algorithmically generated audio designed to siphon streams from actual human artists — has quietly become one of the music industry's more tedious headaches. Progress, albeit modest, is being made.
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Google DeepMind Collects Robotics Partners the Way Others Collect Loyalty Cards
Agile Robots has joined the growing list of companies partnering with Google DeepMind, integrating its robotics foundation models — pre-trained AI systems that give robots a head start on understanding the physical world — into its machines. In return, Agile Robots will feed real-world data back to DeepMind, a fair trade by anyone's measure. DeepMind's robotics portfolio is expanding at a pace that suggests someone in Mountain View has very strong feelings about the physical world.
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As ever, AI is doing extraordinary things — and we're all just trying to keep up, file the correct paperwork, and avoid being replaced before lunch.
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