Weekly#696

  • Tesla Caps Employee AI Spend at $200 per Week After Adoption Push
  • Smooth AI criminal drives ‘first’ end-to-end agentic ransomware attack
  • Summer Reading List
  • Alexandr Wang says Meta’s coming AI has caught up with OpenAI’s flagship model
  • Meta’s Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected…”…”trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected…”
  • Scientists Say They’ve Made Cells That Feed, Grow and Reproduce, Bringing Them One Step Closer to Building Life From Scratch
  • Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung
  • Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket
  • Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity
  • Anthropic’s Fable 5 is back online
  • PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028
  • AI is ‘not smart’ so what’s next in artificial intelligence?
  • South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots