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A federal judge rejected xAI’s bid to dismiss the NAACP lawsuit over gas turbines at its Colossus data center near Memphis. The case will proceed, but the ruling does not prove a permit violation; the court held that the turbines cannot be classified as mobile sources under Mississippi’s state plan.
The lawsuit over gas turbines at xAI’s Colossus data center near Memphis will proceed.
The Third Labor Court in Pará found an instruction hidden in white text on a white background in a filing reviewed by the AI tool Galileu. It fined two law firms 10% of the 842,000-real claim; the source puts the penalty at about $16,000.
A court fined two law firms 10% of the claim for hiding an instruction in a filing to influence an AI review.
According to Tom’s Hardware, Anthropic’s Claude has begun restricting efforts to mod video games, extract source code from compiled code, and analyze code through reverse engineering. Anthropic has made no official statement on the reason for the change; the report links the restrictions to AI-assisted interventions in game code.
According to Tom’s Hardware, Claude has begun restricting requests to mod games and reverse-engineer their code.
Apple CEO John Ternus said the company will use AI in its products but does not want to add features just for AI’s sake. In an interview with Wired, he said success means users love the product. Asked whether agents could make apps unnecessary, he emphasized the human side of creating products.
John Ternus said Apple will use AI in its products but won’t make the technology an end in itself.
Researchers from Y Combinator and Olam Labs tested AI agents in Minecraft cooperation and competition scenarios. Fifty agents failed to develop a civilization in three hours, with bureaucratic decisions observed. GPT and Claude agents used different strategies in Bed Wars and Mindustry; GPT agents won six of seven Mindustry matches.
Researchers tested cooperation and competition among groups of Minecraft agents; bureaucratic decisions featured in an attempt to build a civilization.
Memdoor’s file-based workflow assigns five agents to planning, ideation, solving, management, and debugging. Its authors report Qwen3.8-27B scored 98 across five attempts on LiveCodeBench Hard’s first 10 problems; their own five-pass data on those problems gave Fable 5 80 and their setup 96. Fable 5 was not run here; the sample is small, and possible data contamination is not ruled out.
Memdoor reported a score of 98 using Qwen3.8-27B on 10 LiveCodeBench Hard problems; Fable 5 was not run in the same test.
Agents were asked to build a Pokémon app with different frameworks, then compared on development time, cost, code volume, and Lighthouse scores. The author said Hono+htmx did comparable work to Angular with about 70% less code and faster. The test used a small app; results vary, and Lighthouse may disadvantage SPAs.
A developer published a benchmark in which coding agents built the same Pokémon app using different JavaScript frameworks.
Mathematician Frank Calegari argues that AI is changing mathematical research practices and academic incentives. He proposes evaluating work on the assumption that AI may have been used, emphasizing in-person interviews in hiring, breadth across mathematical fields in education, and higher quality standards in journals.
Mathematician Frank Calegari proposes changes to academic evaluation, hiring, and education as AI transforms mathematical research.
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