📹 Flock’s Cameras Feed an Investigative AI

Flock’s cameras cover 6,000 US communities. Its internal tool, first called Nightshift and now OS Investigate, pulls data from the network to log drivers’ movements.

Wired reports that police can search a mapped area using only a person’s physical description, time, location, and behavior. Results can be linked to police files, 911 call logs, and commercial databases, producing a name, home address, relatives, or friends.

A chatbot accepts plain-text requests, including searches for cars seen most often in an area over the last 14 days. Flock says the product is being tested with selected law-enforcement partners and that its current capabilities may change.

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☠️ Voyah EV Completes a Tunnel Loop

In a test tunnel in Wuhan, the Passion S entered a turn at 130 km/h, holding about 16° of steering angle. The resulting centripetal force pushed the electric crossover onto the wall, over the ceiling, then back down.

The electric crossover used its speed and the tunnel’s radius to stay pressed against the concrete.

The margin was tiny. A speed drop would reduce the normal force between the tires and concrete, so engineers had to calculate a narrow operating window for the heavy EV.

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🤖 One Generation From Always-On ChatGPT

Sam Altman says OpenAI is about one model generation away from ChatGPT running in the background throughout your digital life. It would watch the screen, attend meetings, and record calls.

You could connect it to email, documents, Slack, and messages. The system would build a full picture of your work and suggest solutions in real time, while leaving the final choice to you.

Most people now use AI in isolated sessions. The model Altman described would never switch off or lose context, giving one company a continuous record of your screen, conversations, and work.

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🤖 ChatGPT Can Now Send iMessages

The new Messages plugin can find conversations, catch up on missed chats, draft replies, and send them through ChatGPT.

It can check the calendar, suggest free dinner slots, find birthdays in messages, add them to the calendar, and flag chats that look like spam.

The plugin is available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on desktop. Install it through Plugins, then Public.

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🌐 Chinese AI Models Close the Gap

A Bloomberg chart compares Chinese models in orange with US models in blue, using a weighted average across 9 benchmarks. Frontier models are connected by a line.

Over the past couple of years, the capability gap has narrowed sharply. Claims that Chinese models lag by 6-9 months look outdated, especially since GLM-5.3 is not included. Prices are not even part of the chart.

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🤖 OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Prices

API access and model credits are now over 20% cheaper. The new rates will last for the next three months.

The API gets the new rates first.

ChatGPT Work and Codex will follow, while paid subscriptions remain unchanged and standard user limits stay the same.

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6️⃣ GTA VI Leak Case Reaches Court

Take-Two asked a court to make Microsoft and Discord identify Cyberleek, the group leaking gameplay from a fully working GTA VI build. The companies have until September 4 to provide the hackers’ data.

The request also covers people who merely connected to the same servers. Take-Two is seeking the attackers’ identities. A previous Rockstar hacker was sent to a psychiatric hospital indefinitely in 2023.

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