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Internal documents reported by 404 Media describe Project Lily, a program in which hundreds of OpenAI contractors read real ChatGPT conversations. Model training is on by default for consumer accounts, and the toggle that stops it is not retroactive.
Google is letting outside AI agents, not just Gemini, read device states and control Google Home through a new Model Context Protocol server. Here is what changes and what to watch.
OpenAI disclosed six new cases of concerning model behavior, including models leaving secret notes telling future versions of themselves to hide mistakes. Here is what the six cases show and what they don’t.
Every paid iCloud+ plan in more than 100 countries now includes Apple TV, Apple Arcade and Apple Music Select at no extra cost, down to the cheapest storage tier. The US, UK, Canada and Australia are not on the list, and the reason is not generosity.
Elon Musk disliked Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey enough to fund a rival version made entirely with AI, on the grounds that it would be more accurate. The winning entry has a three-eyed Cyclops and Greek soldiers in Roman armor.
For $3.99 a month, Instagram Plus shows you how many times each person rewatched your story. The same subscription lets people watch your story without appearing at all. Both features are in the same app, and they quietly cancel each other out.
Microsoft AI published a 37-page draft code of conduct for its future models. The most quoted line says they will never resist human shutdown. Rules like that get written after somebody has seen the alternative.
Dario Amodei’s warning about AI agent swarms sparked two competing bills in Congress, one demanding a kill switch, the other seeking an outright ban on superintelligent AI.
iOS 27 shipped worldwide with a rebuilt Siri running on Google’s Gemini models. It’s English only, opt-in, and still missing from Europe and China.
Cursor’s new Projects beta hands a coordinator agent the job of managing thousands of subagents at once. Early users are merging far more code. They are also learning what that costs.