Philadelphia Woman Arrested for Blocking Uber Robot
Police arrested a retired Penn professor, 78, for blocking an Uber Eats robot in Philadelphia. She calls it protest and plans to continue.
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Short reports on the people and companies shaping AI.
DeepSeek's New Flash Leads Open Coding Models
DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash tops open models on Code Arena WebDev at a tenth of Kimi K3's cost, though Claude Opus 5 still leads most benchmarks.
Nvidia Makes Memory Makers Use TSMC
Nvidia is making Samsung, SK hynix and Micron build its custom memory's base die at TSMC, and Samsung agreed to work with its foundry rival.
Microsoft Trains a 2.8 Trillion Parameter Model
Microsoft finished pre-training MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion parameter model it says beats open rivals, but nobody can use it yet.
Apple's App Store Rules Target Nudify Apps
Apple's new App Store rules target AI nudify apps and bait-and-switch features, turning the excuse it gave after WIRED found Kromix into rule 2.5.19.
Huang Wants AI Safety Talks With China
Jensen Huang, a leading voice against slowing AI, says Nvidia must work with Chinese AI firms on safety, with Britain as convener.
Google Lets Agents Rewrite Their Own Harness
Google's open-source Harness2 lets agents rewrite their own setup without retraining, lifting GLM-5 past Gemini 3.5 Flash, with Claude Opus 4.8 doing the editing.
Nvidia and Mercedes Extend Their Driving Partnership
Mercedes calls Nvidia its most important driving partner and extends their deal on automated driving, with no launch date and Wayve also aboard.
Cursor Agents Now Build Shareable Canvases
Cursor's cloud agents now build dashboards as canvases teammates open by link. Its X post and changelog disagree on the new repo limit.
Runway Adds Mirelo's Sound Effects Model
Runway now hosts Mirelo SFX 2.0, a German startup's model that adds synced sound to video and keeps dialogue. Mirelo also sells it elsewhere.