📰 News An AI 'Actor' Is Getting a Feature Film. Hollywood Should Be Worried
Tilly Norwood isn't human. She's an Instagram avatar getting a feature film. The industry that banned AI actors at the Oscars is watching.
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📰 News Australia's Copyright Battle With AI Giants Reaches Boiling Point — and New Zealand Should Be Watching
A leaked proposal would trade Australian copyright protections for $50B in datacentre investment and a $350M/year creative fund. Artists are outraged, Labor is divided, and the PM speaks Wednesday.
📰 News Gemini 3.5 Pro Leaks Point to July 17 Launch — 2 Million Token Context and a Reasoning Mode Locked Behind a Paywall
Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.5 Pro is rumoured for July 17 with 2M tokens and Deep Think reasoning. But the reasoning mode behind a $250/month paywall raises questions about who gets frontier intelligence.
📰 News Ghost Font: A Font Humans Can Read But AI Can't — For Now
Ghost Font uses motion, noise, and decoys to hide messages from leading AI models. It works — but it won't for long.
📰 News Zhipu's Founder Just Declared War on Closed AI — and Backed It with Tens of Billions
After a lockup expiry sent Zhipu's stock down 19%, co-founder Tang Jie told staff to ignore short-term revenue and chase AGI with open weights. The contrast with Western frontier labs closing up is stark.
📰 News Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft — The Silicon Valley Partnership Is Over
Apple's lawsuit names OpenAI's hardware chief and a former Apple engineer, claiming a coordinated campaign to extract trade secrets through hiring, interviews, and supplier manipulation.
📰 News GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Just Solved a 50-Year-Old Math Problem — But Mathematicians Aren't Celebrating Yet
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produced a three-page proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture, a problem that has stumped graph theorists for five decades. Mathematicians are skeptical. The proof has not been peer-reviewed.
📰 News Meta Pulled Its AI Image Feature After Two Days of Backlash — The Pattern Is Getting Worse
Meta's Muse Image let anyone tag an Instagram account and generate AI images from their content. Two days of backlash later, it was gone. The company admitted it 'missed the mark.'
📰 News OpenAI's Safety Head Just Quit — and the Timing Could Not Be Worse
OpenAI's safety head Johannes Heidecke is out. The reorganization merges safety into research under Mia Glaese. It's the third safety departure in a week — and GPT-5.6 just showed 'concerning' misalignment.
📰 News The Man Who Saved the Economy in 2008 Just Joined Anthropic's AI Oversight Body
Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, bringing economic crisis expertise to AI governance. The move signals Anthropic is treating AI's economic disruption as seriously as a financial crisis.
📰 News A US Senator Just Introduced an 'AI Accountability Agenda' — and It Targets Datacenters Directly
Senator Markey's 'AI accountability agenda' would require FCC certification before datacenters can even be built — evaluating environmental, economic, and community impact. Big Tech is not going to like this.
📰 News Meta's New AI Image Generator Uses Your Instagram Face by Default — Opt Out Before Someone Else Does
Meta's Muse Image AI tool can generate images using your public Instagram photos without notifying you. The opt-out is buried deep in settings. Here's how to turn it off.