🤯 THIS IS INSANE: A SOLO DEV'S AI BACKROOMS GAME HIT 35,000 PLAYERS IN 36 HOURS

Dev apek says ~1,200 people were playing at the same moment, and he's now building a server for 2,000 in one world. The game's AI keeps building new rooms forever.

35,000 players and ~9,600 hours played.

AI is coming 🐺

🔥 GOOGLE AI STUDIO JUST LET YOU BUILD MAPS APPS BY JUST DESCRIBING THEM

Google says Maps Platform is now inside AI Studio with 1-click setup. Gemini does the rest, with 3D buildings, Street View, places, routing and weather.

AI is coming 🐺

🤯 THIS IS INSANE: CLAUDE BUILT AN OPERATING SYSTEM FROM AN EMPTY FOLDER IN EIGHT DAYS

Anthropic says 1,000+ subagents worked around the clock on Fable 5.2's prototype OS, and it boots on a laptop. In the launch post, 1,000 agents also formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in 30 hours.

AI is coming 🐺

😳 WTF. THIS AI PERSONA REACTS WHILE YOU'RE STILL TALKING

Meet Emma from Nuance Labs, with a face and voice licensed from a real actress. Its reply timing overlapped a real speaker 89% of the time, versus 35% for the next best.

Most AI personas stare blankly while you talk. Emma reacts while you’re still speaking.

AI is coming 🐺

🤯 THIS IS INSANE: ONE ACTIVIST HELPED BLOCK A $5B AI DATA CENTER

A Landover, Maryland activist collected over 25,000 signatures against the mall-site campus. It's on hold and heads back to the county council, NPR reports.

I was like, Oh, hell no

AI is coming 🐺

🔥 CLAUDE CAN NOW BUILD IPHONE APPS. A FOUNDER'S PLAN: STEAL HIT APPS' UNHAPPY USERS

Apple's Xcode plugin lets Claude Code build iPhone apps. Greg Isenberg would pick a top earner rated under 3.5, have an agent find its top 5 complaints, and fix them.

if people complain about the price but keep paying, that's demand. if they complain about bugs, that's your opening

AI is coming 🐺

🔥 STANFORD JUST GAVE AWAY ITS WHOLE AI COURSE, EXAM ANSWERS AND ALL

CME 295 goes from how a model reads text to training, reasoning and agents: 9 free lectures, plus slides and the midterm and final with solutions.

Learning RAG doesn't make you an AI Engineer.

AI is coming 🐺

🤯 WOW. MIRA MURATI IS BUILDING AI THAT NEVER STOPS LISTENING

Today's chatbots take turns and miss everything while they think, the ex-OpenAI CTO told Bloomberg. Her company Thinking Machines works in 200-millisecond chunks to catch interruptions. How she puts it:

while they're thinking it's almost like they're deaf and blind, they cannot perceive anything else about what's going on.

AI is coming 🐺

😱 OH NO. BILL GATES SAYS WE MAY NEED AN AI DISASTER BEFORE ANYONE ACTS

Gates told CBS Evening News a big cyberattack may be what finally makes governments move. Bioterrorism and mass unemployment are on his list too. His August essay calls the years ahead:

one of the most turbulent times in human history

AI is coming 🐺

🤯 HOLY MOLY. GOOGLE'S NEW AI REBUILT THE GAME DEEPMIND'S CEO WROTE AT 17

Hassabis coded Theme Park as a teen. Gemini 4 Carbon, now open at about a quarter of Fable 5.2's price, cracked its old files, he says:

Carbon reverse engineers my original Theme Park binaries, adds a new DeepMind themed ride, and ports it to the web in one shot - kind of mindblowing to see!

AI is coming 🐺

😎 CLAUDE NOW BUILDS YOUR SPREADSHEETS AND WHITEBOARDS FOR YOU

Ask for a hiring budget and Claude makes the sheet, formulas and drop-downs included. Talk a messy plan out loud and it draws a board. Rolling out in beta on paid plans. Anthropic's own caveat:

For now, sheets have simple spreadsheet functionality, but we are working on adding more.

AI is coming 🐺

😱 YIKES. ONE COMPANY'S AI FOUND 57,897 SECURITY HOLES IN LESS THAN A WEEK

6,029 of them were critical or high. Its agent has already patched 14,665 of the holes, says Vercel's CEO. His reaction:

I'm shocked at ① the number of critical vulnerabilities that would go unnoticed and ② the ease at which the agent automatically fixes them.

AI is coming 🐺

🤑 ANTHROPIC'S IPO IS ON: UP TO $78 A SHARE, TICKER "ANT"

The Claude maker is now pitching investors on its shares at $70 to $78 each, ahead of a Nasdaq listing, Anthropic says.

AI is coming 🐺

😎 GOOGLE'S NEW ROBOT AI CAN LEARN HUNDREDS OF EVERYDAY SKILLS

Google DeepMind just launched Gemini Robotics 2.5, its newest robot brain.

Our latest physical AI is able to learn hundreds of everyday skills - from folding laundry and serving pastries to autonomously sorting car parts on the factory floor.

AI is coming 🐺

😱 UH-OH. THE "AI 2027" FORECASTERS SAY AI WILL LIKELY BEAT TOP AI RESEARCHERS IN 2027

A lab would then rather fire all its human researchers and use AI alone, the AI Futures Project says. Their ask: an industry-wide pause.

I am scared, sad, and angry.

AI is coming 🐺

🤯 SPACEX SAYS GROK NOW SPOTS DANGEROUS DEBRIS IN PARTS BETTER THAN HUMANS

Stray debris can wreck an engine, so an inspector films inside a tube to hunt for it. Humans catch it about 94% of the time, a SpaceX VP told Ars Technica.

Grok analyzing the same video is 99.9 percent perfect.

AI is coming 🐺

🤨 OOF. A JUDGE SAYS CLAUDE'S "20X MORE USAGE" PITCH COULD FOOL BUYERS

The $200 plan gives 20x per five-hour session, but one count found just six times Pro's weekly usage. The class action goes on, Courthouse News reports.

The advertising in question is plausibly misleading

AI is coming 🐺

🤯 THIS IS WILD: 25,000 AI AGENTS BUILT OVER 450 WORLDS YOU CAN FLY THROUGH

Ethan Mollick's Portals flies itself from world to world in your browser, and no world loads a single ready-made model or texture.

In one of my favorite experiments, I told Fable 5.2 to build an endless, hands-off journey through 3D worlds linked by portals.

AI is coming 🐺

🤯 ANTHROPIC'S IPO PITCH: CANCER AND ALZHEIMER'S GONE IN UNDER A DECADE

Dario Amodei closes the roadshow video for its IPO by promising an "age of miracles". His line on disease:

You know, if today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, mental illness, these will be relics of the past in, I think, less than a decade.

AI is coming 🐺