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🤖 Musk reveals Tesla's fourth Master Plan
🧑🧑🧒 OpenAI is adding parental controls to ChatGPT
🛡️ Google denies Gmail breach for 2.5 billion users
🧠 China's plan to outpace Neuralink
🤖 Apple suppliers must invest in automation or face losing orders
🎁 + 11 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Musk reveals Tesla's fourth Master Plan LINK
Tesla's Master Plan Part 4 outlines a vision for "sustainable abundance" by integrating artificial intelligence with the physical world and unifying the company's hardware and software on a global scale.
The company's Optimus humanoid robot is central to the strategy, intended to take over monotonous and dangerous tasks, though its actual autonomy and public release timeline are currently still unknown.
Aside from mentioning Optimus and autonomous vehicles, the plan offers few tangible details on how Tesla will scale production or solve challenges with its existing Robotaxi service.
🧑🧑🧒 OpenAI is adding parental controls to ChatGPT LINK
OpenAI is adding parental controls that allow a guardian to link their ChatGPT account with a teen's, letting them manage chatbot responses and disable features like memory or chat history.
The system will also generate automated alerts for linked accounts when it detects a young user is experiencing a "moment of acute distress," a function guided by expert input.
Sensitive conversations will now be funneled through special reasoning models, which are trained with a method called deliberative alignment to more consistently follow safety guidelines.
🛡️ Google denies Gmail breach for 2.5 billion users LINK
Google has officially debunked inaccurate reports of a major security issue affecting all 2.5 billion Gmail users, stating that recent claims about an emergency warning are entirely false.
The erroneous claims appear to be a misinterpretation of an older phishing attack that targeted a Salesforce instance, for which the company had already notified every person actually impacted.
Google reassured people that its protections continue to block over 99.9% of malware attempts and encourages everyone to set up a secure password alternative like passkeys for maximum protection.
🧠 China's plan to outpace Neuralink LINK
China unveiled a five-year blueprint to build a globally competitive brain-computer interface (BCI) industry, aiming for clinical use by 2027 and domestic champions by 2030. The plan integrates regulation, R&D, and industrial policy from the start, prioritizing implantable chips, advanced electrodes, real-time neural decoding, and non-invasive wearables. With strong state backing and semiconductor ambitions, China seeks to leapfrog the US by rapidly commercializing BCIs for both medical use and consumer applications.
🤖 Apple suppliers must invest in automation or face losing orders LINK
Apple is now requiring suppliers to invest their own money into factory automation and robotics, making it a condition for securing future contracts to build the iPhone.
This push for more factory robots aims to reduce the overall labor force, save money on assembly, and ensure manufacturing creates the same results at any site globally.
The requirement also helps Apple diversify its supply chain away from China, reducing its need for a low-cost workforce and potentially opening the door to making iPhones in the US.
Other news you might like
- Microsoft joins Google in offering billions in cloud discounts to the U.S. governmentLINK
- Tencent open sources two high-performing translation modelsLINK
- Apple isn’t done patching a discontinued iPhone thanks to EU radiation dramaLINK
- All AI-generated online content must now be labelled under Chinese lawLINK
- YouTube has started flagging Premium Family members who live at different addresses – just like Netflix’s password-sharing crackdownLINK
- Man uses AirTag to track down stolen luggage, finds person wearing his clothesLINK
- Switzerland launches its own open-source AI modelLINK
- SAP to invest over 20 billion euros in 'sovereign cloud' in boost to Europe's AI ambitionsLINK
- TSMC to raise prices by up to 10% in 2026, citing US tariffs as a factorLINK
- Study shows chatbots fall for persuasion tactics just like humans doLINK
- Dolby Vision 2 is here for TVs – this time it’s fixing motion, bumping up HDR quality, and comes in two flavorsLINK
Latest research and tools
FreeDroidWarn: an Android library that displays a warning informing users the app will stop working in the future because the developer will not provide a required Google verification.LINK
WinBoat: a tool that runs Windows applications and the full desktop on Linux with seamless integration.LINK
Moribito: a terminal-based explorer for LDAP servers that enables users to browse directories, view records, and execute custom queries interactively.LINK
Towards Memory Specialization: A Case for Long-Term and Short-Term RAM: this paper proposes improving computer performance by splitting RAM into two specialized types, one for long-term data storage and another for short-term, active calculations.LINK
sd: an intuitive command-line tool for finding and replacing text, designed as a simple alternative to sed with more user-friendly regular expressions and defaults.LINK
SparseLoCo: Communication-Efficient LLM Training: this paper introduces a method to train large language models more efficiently by significantly reducing the amount of data sent between processors.LINK
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