Good morning. Somewhere out there, a college kid is staring wide eyed into a phone camera, pretending he just won life changing money because Donald Trump said “McDonald’s.” Very inspiring. Polymarket reportedly paid creators to film fake trades for prediction market bets. The Wall Street Journal reviewed over 1,100 videos and found these big money “wins” happened on dummy Polymarket sites. The house always wins, especially when the casino stages its own winners.
Medieval goats just crashed the AI consciousness debate. A Microsoft researcher reviewed 315 recent AI papers and found that 57% began by assuming chatbots had human-like traits. That assumption almost guarantees they’ll find human behavior. To prove how silly this circular logic is, he built a tiny neural network inside the Age of Empires II videogame, letting goats run the exact same math as chatbots. When a chatbot strings together coherent sentences, researchers wonder if it has feelings. When the same code moves goats around a medieval village, nobody mistakes it for consciousness. The goats aren’t having an existential crisis, but they might force AI researchers into one. (arXiv)
Midjourney’s next image might be your spleen. The AI image star that faded from the spotlight is resurfacing as Midjourney Medical, a full body scanner that dips people in water and uses ultrasound to map their insides. CEO David Holz claims it’s superior to MRI, a wild claim for a machine built on sound waves. MRI can see soft tissue even through bone, while ultrasound bounces off bone like it hits a wall. For now, Midjourney is starting far away from hospitals and medical compliance. The company plans to open med spas complete with hot tubs, cold plunges, and wellness treatments. It’s more high tech hot tub party than medical breakthrough. (The Information)
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OpenAI just dropped its own Mythos. After Anthropic scared Washington enough to pull Mythos and Fable 5, OpenAI is rolling out GPT 5.5 Cyber, a cyber model for approved security companies and researchers. It can search massive codebases, spot likely bugs, and even write patches. OpenAI says GPT 5.5 Cyber scored 85.6% on CyberGym, topping Anthropic’s Mythos 5 at 83.8%. The difference is branding. Anthropic looked like it brought a cyber bazooka to show and tell. OpenAI calls its version Trusted Access, and funds Patch the Planet to help open source maintainers fix bugs. Same scary capability, cleaner packaging. Give the hacking model a nonprofit initiative and suddenly everyone claps like the internet is being saved. (Wired)
AI agents are learning from their mistakes. Researchers built Self Harness, a system that lets agents review failed attempts and rewrite the rules for next time. Usually, companies fix agents by waiting for a dev to notice mistakes and update instructions. Self Harness turns that into a loop the agent can run on its own. In tests, agents improved up to 60% without changing the underlying model or tools. The goal is to shift agents from static software to systems that learn from their bad days. This works best with clear pass or fail tasks, like code that either runs or breaks. Give the agent a clean target, and it steadily improves. Give it a vague goal, and you’ve built a self-improving chaos machine. (arXiv)
Nvidia found a new way to cool the AI backlash. At London Climate Week, the chip king said its next AI system can be cooled with a recirculated liquid that runs at 113 degrees. That warmer liquid could reduce the need for extra chilling equipment, which is where most data center water and energy gets burned. Nvidia’s sustainability chief said “the water consumption challenge for data centers is largely solved,” which sounds suspicious coming from the company whose chips created the data center boom everyone’s yelling about. Microsoft’s data center engineering chief said this could eliminate mechanical chillers, even in hot places like Arizona. While this could be good news for new data centers, it will likely take years to retrofit existing systems. Nvidia may have cooled the water backlash, which leaves only the minor issue of powering chatbots with gas turbines. (Axios)
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☁️ $6.3 billion. SpaceX’s compute deal with Reflection AI. Colossus 2 data center is becoming a cloud business, with Anthropic, Google, and others buying capacity once meant for Grok.
💩 6 out of 10. TikTok videos shown to new accounts that are AI slop – 3x YouTube’s rate.
🏡 8%. Data center opponents who actually live near one. More than 70% of Americans say, “not in my backyard,” but most aren’t neighbors.