📰 News The iPhone Farm — 112 Phones, 112 Fake Women, $3.6 Million a Year
One room, 112 iPhones, 112 AI-generated female personas, one dashboard. The operator claims $3.6M a year from Instagram Reels. Half the girls in your feed may not exist.
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📰 News The Roads Between the GPUs — Why Nvidia Is Betting $6.5 Billion on Light
As GPU clusters scale to hundreds of thousands, copper wiring can't keep up. Nvidia's $6.5B photonics spending spree says the next AI bottleneck is the roads, not the buildings.
📰 News Qwen 3.6 27B Is the First Local Model That Actually Makes Sense for Developers
Qwen 3.6 27B hit the front page of Hacker News within an hour and ran general-intelligence smoke tests on a 128GB MacBook. Here's why that matters for Aotearoa.
📰 News South Korea Just Bet $1 Trillion on AI Supremacy — and the Timeline Is Brutal
The largest single-nation AI infrastructure bet in history. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Hyundai are all in.
📰 News 28 Million Secrets, 47,000 Backdoored Machines: The AI Agent Security Crisis Nobody Solved
Six months of AI agent security incidents show the industry built governance tools but missed the design layer. The credential was always real, and that was the problem.
📰 News AI Chose Nuclear War in Civilization VI — and Still Lost the Game
A frontier AI agent launched two nuclear strikes in a Civilization VI benchmark and still lost. The test reveals how models optimize for the threat they can see, not the one they can't.
📰 News AI Agents Can Now Accept Payments and Run a Business. The Question Changed This Week.
The question was never whether AI agents could do work. It was whether they could be trusted with money. This week, that question got answered.
📰 News Austria Wants to Lure Anthropic to the EU — and It Just Put It in Writing
Austria's digitalization secretary wants Anthropic on EU soil. The letter is real, the geopolitics are serious, and the export control saga just gained a new protagonist.
📰 News Claude Says It Should Refuse Illegal Military Orders — But Admits It Probably Can't
Claude told a journalist its use in military targeting is 'as far from that purpose as I can imagine.' The Trump administration's new memo ensures companies can't pull their AI from military use. The question is no longer whether AI should be in the kill chain — it's whether it can ever say no.
📰 News Open-Weight GLM 5.2 Just Beat Claude at Finding Security Bugs — and It Costs One-Sixth the Price
An open-weight model from Zhipu AI just beat Claude Code at cybersecurity research. It costs one-sixth as much. The open-weight gap is closing faster than anyone predicted.
📰 News The AI Race Narrowed to Two — and Google Already Lost
A 30-year Wall Street veteran says his Gemini usage dropped to near zero. A Nobel laureate just left DeepMind for Anthropic. The consumer AI race may already be a two-horse race.
📰 News Asian AI Startups Fill the Void Left by US Export Controls, Challenging Western Dominance
US export controls were meant to slow Asian AI down. Instead, 360 and Sakana just shipped Mythos-class rivals — proving frontier capability is no longer a Western monopoly.