Cloudflare’s global hiccup took X down and showed why redundancy matters; ORCA found LLMs still flub real-world math without tool use; Ex Machina reignited debates on AI creativity and autonomy; parasocial relationships went mainstream and 2wai’s grief avatars sparked ethical alarms; Bexorg is scaling an AI-plus-human-brain platform for CNS drug discovery; EXL is betting on the data and fine-tuning layer over GPUs; OnePlus 15’s great AI features meet awkward defaults and phantom touches; robots learned faster with imitation and simulation while Amazon urged pragmatism; new research generalized the BBP transition for PCA under sparse noise; Dealism raised to build AI sales agents; Microsoft pushed a ‘positive-sum’ AI vision and agent pricing; the EU AI Act’s first phase hit GPAI providers with lifecycle obligations; and a dev shipped an iOS app in 3 days using AI-assisted ‘vibe coding.’

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• Bexorg Appoints Sean Murphy, Ph.D., as Chief Technology Officer
• Kapoor’s Curiosity for Context Keeps EXL Focused on Data
• PCA recovery thresholds in low-rank matrix inference with sparse noise
• Is X (Twitter) down? Why your timeline isn’t loading
• ¿Robots cuadrúpedos, humanoides o industriales? De Fukushima a los almacenes de Amazon, las máquinas trabajadoras conquistan el mundo físico
• AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows
• Ex-Youzan COO's AI Startup Dealism Raises $15M from Hillhouse, Sequoia China
• Ex Machina: could “superintelligence” challenge the idea of creativity as a uniquely human activity?
• I Built an IOS App in 3 Days with Literally No Prior Swift Knowledge
• KI-Modelle nach den Vorgaben des AI Acts entwerfen
• Feel a connection to a celebrity you don’t know? There’s a word for that
• Disney star debuts AI avatars of the dead
• ChatGPT no funciona: cómo comprobar si está caído o es un problema tuyo
• I uncovered the OnePlus 15's flaws, but this unexpected design feature is the real problem