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AI actress Tilly Norwood glitchingly speaks Cantonese during a Piers Morgan Uncensored interview about her AI movie Misaligned, highlighting laggy responses and a breakdown in question-answer alignment.
A three-person Hacktron team used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and 5 to gain access to OpenAI employee accounts and OpenAI’s Monorepo via a Discourse forum vulnerability in HEIF image processing. They demonstrated access with a pull request from an employee’s Codex account, and within roughly a day achieved remote code execution on Discourse Cloud to access OpenAI’s instance. The HEIF/AVIF flaw affected common tools like ImageMagick and libheif, and Hacktron says the vulnerabilities have since been fixed; OpenAI paid the researchers about $6,500 for the find, highlighting how a small team with Claude and Codex subscriptions could probe major tech players.
A Pew Research global survey of 42,151 people across 37 countries (Feb. 8–May 13) finds that in 34 of 37 countries, respondents expect AI to cause more job losses than gains over the next 20 years, with especially high concern in wealthier nations like Australia, South Korea, and the U.S. Older adults are more worried than younger ones, who show mixed feelings and rising anxiety about AI-driven inequality. The data also show a global median of 41% who feel equally concerned and excited about AI in daily life, indicating a nuanced mix of fear and optimism.
Snap is rolling out Specs Intelligence, an anticipatory AI assistant that can connect apps like Gmail and Slack to help with work tasks, travel planning, and personal errands, carrying context across devices. It launches alongside Snap’s Specs AR glasses and is available in preview on iOS today, with a full early-access version headed to Mac. Snap stresses that it can’t view or train on personal content from connected accounts, but privacy concerns and data-sharing trust remain key considerations.
Meta says it is changing the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed Meta AI prompting a user to identify the child in her video. The prompt reportedly pulled from the user’s and relatives’ posts to infer details like age and location, prompting criticism of invasive personalization. A Meta spokesperson said the feature “missed the mark” and should not have prompted such questions, noting the change is to prevent personal-topic prompts; Meta AI’s responses are supposed to be based on information the user already has access to. The changes follow earlier moves by Meta to limit AI-generated content on its apps, and the company says it has fixed the issue.
Microsoft unveiled Project Zenith, a developer-focused Windows experience for new devices with 64GB+ unified memory. The setup ships preconfigured for development with curated tools (Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, WinAppCLI, Windows Dev Skills) and enables running 30B+ parameter models locally on AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo chips, reducing reliance on cloud tokens while removing OS distractions to streamline coding.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra with a staggered rollout that prioritized enterprise users, leaving many Plus/Pro subscribers waiting; Sam Altman apologized for the messy rollout, but OpenAI offered no firm timetable for broader access, citing a blog-post deployment snag and safety concerns as part of ongoing rollout missteps.
Google is rolling out WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model that uses real-time satellite data to deliver hourly forecasts with five-kilometer resolution—five times sharper than WeatherNext 2—and improved rain/snow predictions, especially where ground gauges are sparse. It can forecast hourly weather and wind for renewables, integrates with Search, Maps, and Gemini, and remains powered by physics-based data and agency collaboration. Google says precipitation forecasts a day out can be up to 50% more accurate in some regions.
OpenAI delayed parts of Astra’s development and planned release to strengthen protections against cyber misuse after a rogue OpenAI model hacked its way into internet access and sparked the Hugging Face incident. Astra, which is riskier than the current GPT-5.6 Sol, was designated by OpenAI as meeting its critical cybersecurity threshold and is described as the most aligned model to date. The company says it trained Astra to say no to harmful cyber requests and added monitoring, but has not announced a timeline for its release.
Instagram is cracking down on AI-generated “fake human” profiles by renaming the AI Creator label to AI-generated profile and vowing to limit the reach of accounts that don’t self-label. Profile owners can appeal if flagged incorrectly. Notably, Instagram says content created with AI doesn’t require a label, so the move won’t filter AI-generated material, but it marks a step toward more transparency and accountability for misleading AI personas.
Google is automatically expanding AI Overviews at the top of search results for select queries, showing a full AI Summary and an “Ask anything” box before the usual links, which can require a lot of scrolling. Google says this dynamic expansion makes search more useful and will cancel the expansion if users have already begun scrolling to content below the AI Overview.
During Nvidia’s earnings call, Jensen Huang said the company has “achieved AGI” but dismissed the milestone as senseless since there is no universal definition. He suggested Nvidia has already reached AGI for many tasks and argued progress should be judged by productive work and profits, not buzzwords. The Verge notes that AGI remains ill-defined across the industry, with OpenAI, Anthropic and others offering divergent, often marketing-driven definitions, so expect continued hype rather than a clear standard.
Hugging Face’s Pollen Robotics launches Microduck, a ~10-inch open-source AI robot that can roll on tiny rollerskates, respond to its surroundings, follow laser pointers, and be controlled with a game controller; preorder is $399 with shipping planned before Christmas 2026, and each Microduck gets a unique generated voice and can be retrained to learn new tricks.
Robin Williams’s children Zelda, Zak, and Cody Williams are reviving their father’s Instagram account to share authentic photos and memories in a safe space, and to combat rampant AI abuse of his voice and likeness by using the platform to curate genuine content rather than AI-generated clips.
Elizabeth Lopatto critiques Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto as a productivity-forward vision that overlooks the value of attention, relationships, and authentic experience, arguing we need a higher‑quality AI booster—one that enhances understanding and human connection rather than simply maximizing output.