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🏎 BMW unveils i7 xDrive electric sedan with Neue Klasse tech
BMW presented the i7 xDrive, a premium electric sedan built on elements of the Neue Klasse platform. The top version delivers 536 hp, reaches 100 km/h in 4.6 seconds, and offers about 560 km of range.
The interior replaces the traditional instrument cluster with a slim display strip at the base of the windshield, showing key data at eye level.
The model starts at $126K, with sales beginning this summer. Hybrid and ICE versions are also planned.
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😒 Unreleased Claude Mythos accessed by guessing API endpoint
Bloomberg reports a small Discord group gained access to Anthropic’s Mythos model without authorization. They inferred the API naming pattern from a recent Mercor leak and guessed the endpoint.
One participant also obtained a valid contractor account, which allowed them to use the model without hacking. Access started the same day Anthropic announced Project Glasswing and lasted about two weeks.
Users reportedly tested the model in normal workflows without unusual activity.
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⚡️ OpenAI rolls out GPT Image-2 inside ChatGPT
Users report early access to the new GPT Image-2 model in ChatGPT. Initial generations show strong results on text rendering, complex prompts, and infographics.
The model focuses on image generation with better handling of instructions and structured visuals.
Rollout appears gradual, with access already enabled for some accounts ahead of an official announcement.
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🚀 Blue Origin reuses New Glenn booster for the first time
Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket with a previously flown booster. The stage landed on a platform in the Atlantic about 6 minutes after liftoff.
New Glenn is a heavy-lift rocket designed to carry large payloads to orbit. This was its first reuse attempt.
The mission itself failed. The rocket did not deliver the satellite for direct-to-smartphone communication to the target orbit.
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🪳War just got smaller: cyborg cockroaches are here
German startup SWARM Biotactics is building insect-scale surveillance tools by equipping real cockroaches with tiny backpacks packed with neural interfaces, sensors, and communication modules.
These insects can be guided by electrical signals or operate in semi-autonomous swarms, moving through environments where traditional robots fail, like rubble, tight spaces, or high-risk zones.
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🧠 Indian factory films workers’ POV to train AI on manual tasks
A video from an Indian sewing factory went viral showing workers wearing head-mounted cameras that record their work from a first-person view.
The footage captures every step of the process to create training data for AI systems. The idea is to teach models how manual tasks are actually performed in real conditions.
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🏎Rolls-Royce unveils Project Nightingale
Rolls-Royce introduced Project Nightingale, a limited coachbuilt model capped at 100 units with pricing starting around $1M.
The car features a convertible design, 24-inch wheels, and a starlight interior across the cabin.
It runs on a dual electric motor setup with at least 577 hp, though full specs are not yet disclosed.
Production is limited and positioned as a bespoke offering.
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🍏 Apple rumored to build Mac Neo
Apple is reportedly working on a budget desktop called Mac Neo, priced around $300. The move follows Mac mini shortages and strong demand for lower-cost devices.
The device is expected to run on the A19 Pro chip from iPhone 17 Pro. Form factor is similar to Apple TV 4K, with 12GB RAM, USB-C ports, and about 35W power usage.
It is aimed at basic tasks like browsing, documents, and streaming, not heavy workloads where M-series chips dominate.
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😺 Codex expands from coding tool into full AI workspace
OpenAI is pushing Codex far beyond code. The new pitch is simple: one tool for much more than engineering.
🔸 Computer use on your own machine, at least on Mac for now
🔸 Built-in browser
🔸 Image generation
🔸 Deep integrations
🔸 Artifacts inside the app, including tables
🔸 Native automations
This looks like OpenAI’s answer to Claude Code Epitaxy.
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🤖 Gemini Launches Native macOS App
Google has released a native Gemini application for macOS, allowing users to summon the assistant with the Option + Space shortcut over any task.
The app can analyze screen content, handle files, and quickly answer questions without switching tabs. It also supports image and video generation.
Gemini is now globally available for users running macOS 15 and later versions.
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📄 Andrej Karpathy skills repo hits 36K stars in 2 days with 65-line file
The GitHub repo andrej-karpathy-skills reached 36K stars in two days. It contains a single CLAUDE.md file with 65 lines describing one agent skill.
The file encodes four rules from Andrej Karpathy’s post: think and ask before coding, simplify solutions, change only what is requested, and work toward a clear goal.
Users report cleaner PRs, fewer unnecessary diffs, and better instruction following after adding the file.
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🔋 Battery costs drop 99% as EVs become affordable
Lithium-ion battery costs fell from about $9,200 per kWh in 1991 to $78 today.
That brings a modern EV battery to roughly $5,000 versus nearly $600,000 for the same capacity decades ago.
The decline followed a steady learning curve. Since 1998, every doubling of global battery production cut costs by about 19%.
The gains came from incremental improvements across chemistry, manufacturing, and supply chains.
Early scale came from consumer electronics, not cars. Smartphones and laptops drove volume first, making batteries viable for larger use cases later.
Energy density also increased more than 3x over the same period.
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🤖 AMD AI director says Claude Code got worse after March changes
Stella Lorenz, Senior Director of AI at AMD, published an analysis of Claude Code logs that points to a sharp drop in performance from February to March. She looked at 6,852 sessions, 234,760 tool calls, and 17,871 reasoning blocks.
🔸 Median reasoning length fell from about 2,200 characters in January and February to about 600 by March. That is a 73% drop.
🔸 The read-to-edit ratio fell from 6.6:1 to 2:1. In practice, the model spent less time reading code before changing it.
🔸 Attempts to avoid continuing tasks, including prompts like “should I continue?”, rose from 0 to 173 in the 17 days after March 8.
🔸 Self-contradictions in the model’s reasoning tripled.
🔸 Daily usage cost rose 122x as a result.
The timing matters. The reported degradation lines up with the March 8 release of thinking redaction, which hides reasoning. Anthropic said that change was only about the UI.
In the GitHub thread, Claude Code creator Boris Cherny replied that default settings in the agent had changed, including adaptive thinking and Medium effort, so the analysis may be distorted.
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💻 Rockstar hacked, GTA VI data not affected
ShinyHunters claim they accessed Rockstar’s cloud storage and demanded a ransom by April 14. The company confirmed the breach but said only non-critical data was exposed.
The leaked materials may include financial reports, player analytics, and internal documents. Rockstar stated that neither GTA VI nor player data were affected.
The incident adds pressure as the company prepares for its next major release.
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🤖 OpenAI launches always-on agents with workspace integrations
OpenAI introduced agents that run continuously and connect to the tools users work in. The system keeps context and can act across tasks without repeated prompts.
Agents integrate with workflows, observe actions, and use connected tools to complete tasks. The model shifts from chat responses to execution inside apps.
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👾 Codex adds Chronicle to record and learn from user actions
OpenAI introduced Chronicle, a feature that records your screen and uses it as context for Codex. It helps the system understand tasks faster and choose the right tools.
Chronicle analyzes user actions and stores them in memory to improve future interactions.
The feature is available to ChatGPT Pro users on macOS, excluding the EU, UK, and Switzerland.
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🤩 Karpathy reframes education in the AGI era
“Pre-AGI education is useful. Post-AGI education is fun.”
For most of history, learning was tied to survival. You study to work. You work to live.
AGI breaks that link.
Karpathy compares it to physical strength. We no longer need it to survive, yet people still go to the gym. Not out of necessity, but by choice.
Same idea for the mind.
If AI takes over analysis and knowledge work, people won’t stop learning. The reason just changes. From earning to interest.
Curiosity doesn’t disappear when pressure is gone. It becomes the main driver.
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⚡ JUST IN: ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini neural networks have stopped working worldwide, with ChatGPT and CodeX failing first, followed by Gemini and now Claude.
The cause of the outage is currently unknown.
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🤖 Honor humanoid beats human half marathon record with 50:26 finish
A humanoid robot from Honor ran 21 km in 50 minutes 26 seconds, beating the previous human record by about 6 minutes.
The robot even crashed into a barrier near the finish but got up and completed the race.
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🤖 Claude Opus 4.7 draws criticism over tokens and weaker reasoning
Users on X report higher token usage and lower output quality in Opus 4.7. Arena rankings now reflect a drop in performance on harder prompts.
The model appears tuned toward code generation. At the same time, it shows weaker results in complex reasoning and business context understanding.
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🤖 Anthropic launches Claude Design for UI, slides, and prototypes
Anthropic introduced Claude Design, a built-in studio inside Claude for creating presentations, interfaces, and layouts. The tool runs on Claude Opus 4.7 and generates a first version from a text prompt.
Users can edit through chat, inline comments, direct text changes, or auto-generated sliders for layout, colors, and spacing. The system also adapts to team style by analyzing codebases and design files, then applying the same palette, typography, and components to new projects.
Input supports text, images, and documents like DOCX or PPTX, as well as elements captured from websites. Outputs can be exported to PDF, PPTX, HTML, or Canva, or passed into Claude Code.
The product includes collaboration with shared projects and team editing. It is available in research preview for paid users.
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🤖 Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS with fine voice control
Google introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a new speech model in the Gemini stack focused on controllable voice generation.
The model allows precise control over tone, pace, stress, and overall style using text tags. It also supports multi-speaker output while preserving each voice’s characteristics, making it usable for longer-form content.
Latency improved by tens of percent, including faster first-token response, bringing it closer to real-time use cases.
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⚡ JUST IN: Anthropic has released their latest model, Opus 4.7.
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👨🔧 NVIDIA releases open AI models for quantum computing
NVIDIA introduced the Ising family of models, targeting calibration and error correction in quantum systems. The models are open and already available for local use.
Ising Decoding runs 2.5x faster and delivers 3x higher accuracy than pyMatching, the current standard. Ising Calibration reduces calibration time from days to hours.
The models integrate with CUDA-Q and NVQLink, and are available on Hugging Face.
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🚗 Porsche unveils 911 GT3 S/C cabrio
Porsche introduced the 911 GT3 S/C, a new two-seat cabriolet priced at €269K.
It is the first GT3 with a retractable soft top and currently the only two-seat convertible in the 911 lineup.
The car runs a 4.0L engine with 510 hp.
It goes from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.9 seconds and reaches a top speed of 313 km/h.
Transmission is a 6-speed manual.
Orders are already open.
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🌙 Blue Origin tests reactor that makes oxygen from Moon dust
Blue Origin introduced the Air Pioneer reactor, designed to extract oxygen directly from lunar regolith. NASA has backed the project with $35M.
The process heats Moon dust to about 1600°C until it melts. An electric current then splits the material through electrolysis, separating oxygen from metals like iron, titanium, and aluminum. Oxygen is released as gas, while metals and silicon collect separately.
The system needs about 1 megawatt of power, expected to come from solar panels near a lunar base. Byproducts can be reused as construction materials, including metals and glass.
NASA also provided a real Apollo-era lunar sample to help build accurate test material.
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🍏 Apple plans smart glasses launch in 2027 with new Siri and custom design
Apple is working on smart glasses under the codename N50, with a reveal expected in late 2026 or early 2027 and release in 2027.
The device will support photos, video, calls, notifications, music, and voice control through an upgraded Siri from iOS 27. Apple is focusing on tight hardware and software integration, building the product fully in-house.
Four frame styles are in development, using acetate materials and colors like black, ocean blue, and light brown. The camera design may feature vertical oval lenses with a signature light element.
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🤖 Unitree robot used to scare off wild boars in Warsaw
A viral video shows a Unitree G1 robot chasing away wild boars in Warsaw. The animals have become more common in recent years and are increasingly entering urban areas.
Residents are starting to use unconventional methods to deal with the growing problem.
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🤖 Unitree shows humanoid robot running at 10 m/s
Unitree demonstrated a humanoid robot reaching speeds of 10 m/s. For comparison, Usain Bolt’s peak speed during his 100m world record was 12.4 m/s.
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