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OpenAI researcher observes workers prefer human over AI requests despite identical tasks

Greg Brockman notes that coworkers readily help each other with tasks but dislike receiving identical requests from AI agents, suggesting people value human relationships over task efficiency when mediated by AI.

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Open letters about AI development reflect industry policy debate

xAI Grok gains video analysis and Grok Imagine image generation.

Musk claims Grok 4.5 leads on speed and cost efficiency

Nous Hermes Agent adds DeepSeek V4 Flash support at $0.07 per prompt

Sam Altman posts team humanity on social media

OpenAI showcases ChatGPT Work cloud browser and research capabilities

Industry debates open source AI model restrictions amid security concerns.

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Sam Altman touts ChatGPT as parenting tool in social media post

Patrolling robot falls down staircase at Hong Kong airport during test run

Researchers propose persistent state machines for LLM attention with INT4 in-memory cells

Essay distinguishes two modes of agentic AI work

Design tooling evolves to serve both human teams and AI agents

Industry weighs impact of $1.5B AI copyright payout on creative work

Simon Willison releases datasette-apps 0.2a0 with agent debugging tools

CostPerPrompt launches live AI API pricing and workload cost calculators.

Industry examines whether artist payments can resolve AI training disputes.

MIT Sloan study finds AI financial advice performs well with proper prompting

Simon Willison newsletter covers GPT-5.6, Claude Opus 5, Kimi K3, DeepSeek-V4-Flash

UBTech ships consumer humanoid robots to Chinese buyers.

YouTuber Hank Green calls his AI usage not healthy offers public apology

Industry debates whether Billboard Hot 100 track Rubberz was AI-generated

Latest open artifacts highlight Kimi K3, Inkling on Pareto frontier

Chinese police AI detects bitcoin money laundering with 90% accuracy.

US executive order pushes defense contractors to decouple from Chinese rare earths.