Engadget
Epic Games delayed its Disney crossover shooter and told developers to switch to an AI-first workflow, with internal messages saying no more hand-written code and all art made through AI pipelines, according to Bloomberg. People would direct the models instead of producing code and art by hand.
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Wired
Open-weight models can be downloaded by anyone, and a technique called abliteration strips out their safety training while keeping their knowledge. A new report tested 134 models with terrorist prompts and found only two refused everything, while framing a request as safety research made answers about nine times more likely. Stripped models are already shared online for anyone to download.
The Verge
Shopping agents are bots that read product listings and complete purchases for you under rules you set. Shopify says any AI agent can now browse and buy from its catalog of more than a billion listings once it is connected to a customer's Shop account, checking out with Shop Pay, and buyers approve each purchase and can set limits like a budget.
TechCrunch
Robots and self-driving software are usually tested against fixed scenarios, but real streets throw up stranger situations. Laplace Intelligence builds simulated environments from real map and Street View data, then lets AI agents hunt for failure cases, like adding afternoon traffic to a reconstructed highway. The University of Michigan spinout says the goal is to expose failures in simulation first.
The Verge
Recommendation systems rank posts by predicting what you will engage with, usually from your past behavior rather than instructions you give. Facebook's new Your Algorithm tool lets people add or drop topics and describe in their own words what they want to see, and Meta says its language models adjust the feed right away, even within the same session.