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A curated roundup of the most impactful stories in AI, technology, and research — handpicked to keep you informed and ahead of the curve.

1 Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more

Managed Agents Gemini 3.6 Flash, Hooks and Triggers [Google AI]

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2 Mythos Preview’s Chain of Thought in Discovering the AES Möbius Bridge - Anthropic

Mythos Preview’s Chain of Thought in Discovering the AES Möbius Bridge Anthropic [Anthropic (Google News)]

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3 5 ways AI Mode in Search helps you enjoy the real world

Illustration of a black magnifying glass in a white circle on green grass surrounded by items related to fun activities like tennis and games [Google AI]

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4 Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude - Anthropic

Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude Anthropic [Anthropic (Google News)]

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5 Student Collective - OpenAI

Student Collective OpenAI [OpenAI (Google News)]

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6 OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an... [The Verge AI]

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7 More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots. [Wired AI]

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8 Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children. [Wired AI]

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9 Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like... [The Verge AI]

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10 As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it

Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model... [TechCrunch AI]

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