🤖 Gravity Falls Creator Trolls Sam Altman

Sam Altman shared a ChatGPT hack to connect the bot to family calendars and create daily podcasts about kids' interests and events.

Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls, replied suggesting it’s better to just talk to your kids instead.

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🤖 OpenAI launches Presence for real-world AI agents

OpenAI introduced Presence, a product that puts AI agents directly into customer support and internal company workflows instead of keeping them hidden in demos or internal GPTs.

Presence is tailored for business use, with OpenAI engineers customizing setups when standard configurations fall short. Access is limited as companies are selected manually, with no clarity on compliance with the European AI Act.

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💫 NASA funds exoplanet surface imaging concept

NASA has backed a concept to capture images of continents and oceans on exoplanets many light years away. The challenge is the star’s brightness, about 10 billion times stronger than the planet’s reflected light, and their close proximity in the sky.

Physicists propose two solutions: a dynamic hierarchical nuller that cancels out starlight by combining light from multiple apertures, and a virtual telescope formed by two instruments spaced 100 km apart to achieve a giant effective aperture.

This approach could finally move exoplanet observation beyond single points of light to actual surface details, overcoming fundamental limits of telescope size and star glare.

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🧪 Scientists Propose Cutting Earth’s Population to 4 Billion

Scientists suggest reducing the global population to 4 billion by 2200, about half of today’s 8.3 billion. The planet’s population grew from 2 billion a century ago and could reach 11.5 billion by 2100 according to optimistic forecasts.

In the last 50 years, CO₂ emissions doubled, energy consumption tripled, and biodiversity halved. Resources on Earth won’t be enough for everyone if trends continue.

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🎸 Arduino Robot Plays Your Guitar via Wi-Fi

A Reddit user named MegCell built a robot that attaches to almost any guitar in about 3 minutes and plays it via smartphone control. It uses an Arduino to operate servos that press strings and strum, all housed in a complex 3D-printed frame around the guitar body and neck.

The robot reads MusicXML files sent over Wi-Fi, so it can theoretically play any song with a digital score. The creator plans to release 3D models and firmware for a true DIY version and improve the playing technique and noise from the servos.

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🚘 BMW Plays Spider-Man Ads Instead of Music

BMW owners in 70 countries hear ads for "Spider-Man: New Day" instead of music for a week after starting their cars. A screen banner triggers a video and interior lighting if tapped.

This affects nearly all BMW cars made after July 2020. BMW partnered with the film for the in-car promotion.

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🤩 Cloudflare Launches Wallets for AI Agents

Cloudflare opened name reservations for Cloudflare Wallets, letting users secure permanent payment addresses like yourname-cloudflare-pay to manage AI agent funds.

Users fund a main wallet and create virtual wallets for each AI agent with spending limits and approved recipients. Agents pay for APIs and digital content within set limits.

Payments use the x402 protocol in HTTP requests, linking transactions to digital identities without manual card handling. Sellers can identify agents and their organizations.

These wallets provide AI agents with clear authority and accountability. Payment features will launch after name reservations close.

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🍏 Apple caps AI-driven bug reports

Apple has set a limit on the number of vulnerability reports submitted through its internal security portal. This change comes after a surge of AI-generated submissions overwhelmed the team, causing real bugs from human researchers to get lost in the flood.

The company’s bug bounty program rewards those who find system flaws. But the volume of AI-discovered issues became unmanageable, forcing Apple to add a 30-day cooldown period and require special approval for excess reports.

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