⚡ Tech Daily Tech & People: May 28, 2026
Anthropic opens the containment kimono. DeepMind solves what humans couldn't for 56 years — for a few hundred dollars. Vibe coding gets a security reality check.
Robots, chips, and the technology shaping our future.
⚡ Tech Anthropic opens the containment kimono. DeepMind solves what humans couldn't for 56 years — for a few hundred dollars. Vibe coding gets a security reality check.
⚡ Tech AI is becoming a breast cancer screener in NZ. Starting 2027, it will replace one of the two human readers in mammogram assessment. The government says AI 'supports, not replaces' clinicians. Privacy advocates have questions.
⚡ Tech ThoughtWorks' own marketing team built a vibe-coded video tool. When they tried to scale it, AI recommended insecure configurations at every turn. The VibeSec reckoning is here.
⚡ Tech YouTube is done trusting creators to label their own AI content. Its systems will now automatically detect and label photorealistic AI video — and you can't remove labels from YouTube's own AI tools.
⚡ Tech Nolan Lawson's viral essay turns the 'AI slop cannon' narrative on its head: use Claude, Codex, and Cursor Bugbot to find bugs, not ship faster. The result is better code, more side-quests, and zero velocity gains — and 695 Hacker News points suggest a lot of developers agree.
⚡ Tech The Vatican just became a major voice in AI governance. Anthropic left 3,000 internal documents open by default. Uber's AI ROI problem goes public.
⚡ Tech Uber rolled out Claude Code to 5,000 engineers in January. By April, the 2026 AI budget was gone. Now the company president says he can't draw a line between token consumption and useful features. Is the enterprise AI spending bubble about to pop?
⚡ Tech AI interviews thousands of NZ job seekers. Government targets 14% headcount reduction via automation. Māori data trust inspires ethical AI voice model. NZ Cyber Security warns of AI superhacking.
⚡ Tech Reasonix isn't trying to be a Claude Code clone. It's built from the ground up around DeepSeek's prefix-cache mechanic — and that single design choice gives it 80% lower costs on long coding sessions.
⚡ Tech While AI companies burn billions, developers are building tools to survive the token economy. 9Router saves 20-40% on input tokens and routes around paywalls — for free.
⚡ Tech AI didn't democratise justice — it democratised litigation. Self-filed lawsuits spiked from 11% to 17% in three years, and the correlation with ChatGPT adoption is unmistakable. MIT researcher Anand Shah says courts 'will basically have to grind to a halt.'
⚡ Tech Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max ran 35 hours autonomously writing chip code. AutoTTS discovered scaling algorithms humans wouldn't design — for $40. Trump pulled AI oversight order after tech CEO lobbying. AI washing hits absurd levels.