A 30+ minute conversational deep-dive into the latest AI developments: MIT warns that scaling giant models may hit diminishing returns as efficiency gains empower smaller models; Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 debuts as a fast, low-cost small model with strong safety signals; the internet’s authenticity battle intensifies as big tech backs provenance (C2PA) while niche tools push layered detection and verification; Microsoft brings AI tools and training to all Washington State public schools and community colleges to close the urban-rural gap; Japan warns OpenAI over Sora 2’s anime lookalikes, signaling tighter copyright enforcement; AI-flavored unicorns surge across infrastructure, chips, and vertical software; a new MoE paper proposes a sweep-free way to select experts; five underrated open-weight coding models show practical momentum; OpenAI will allow verified adults to generate erotic content with new age-gating; and Firefox adds Perplexity as an AI answer engine. Final takeaways: efficiency is strategy, authenticity is layered, and AI is a power tool—not autopilot.

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