• Cognition AI just bought Windsurf for $NAN.  (New York Times)
  
  This comes after Google hired away key staff and then paid $2.4 billion to license the company's technology, which comes after OpenAI offered $3 billion to buy the company outright.
  
  
  
• Speaking of AI, Grok is currently acting like a split-brain patient.  It swears it can see your avatar image, but if you ask it to draw something similar it always draws a twenty-something man in a tee-shirt and jacket standing by a tree.
  
  If you describe your avatar it will accept that, and then insist it could always see that.
  
  
  

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• Speaking of which, Google Gemini just lost a chess match with an Atari 2600 from the Ordovician Era.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM.
  
  That is not a typo.
  
  
  
• Apple is facing calls to focus on AI after losing $640 billion in market value because it's not doing retarded shit.  (Yahoo)
  
  Ugh.
  
  
  
• Just 0.1% of users shared 80% of fake news.  (Science Direct)
  
  Mostly CNN and MSNBC.
  
  
  
• If you always wanted Sharp X68000 you can now buy one, sort of.  (Notebook Check)
  
  It even comes pre-shrunk for your inconvenience.

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