🛍️ Alibaba launches Qwen3.7-Max AI

Alibaba released Qwen3.7-Max, a free AI model outperforming Kimi-K2.6 and Claude Opus 4.6 in Max mode on all benchmarks.

It excels at coding and agent tasks, runs autonomously for tens of hours, and supports 1000+ tools with a 1 million token context window.

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Ⓜ️ Meta trains AI on employee actions amid layoffs

On April 30, Mark Zuckerberg told managers that training AI models on employee actions will sharply improve their capabilities. Meta uses data from computer sessions, code, mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes to teach AI agents.

Meta believes its employees’ higher intelligence offers better training data than external annotators. This approach is part of the Model Capability Initiative, reported by Reuters on April 21.

At the same time, Meta announced layoffs of 8,000 employees and reassigned 7,000 more to AI roles. The company is betting on AI trained from internal work to gain an edge.

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🔋 Google AI Studio can now generate Android apps from prompts

Google added native Android app generation to AI Studio. Users can describe an idea in plain language, and the system writes the app in Kotlin.

The generated app can be tested directly in a browser emulator and installed on a real Android device.

The gap between idea and APK keeps shrinking.

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📊 FigureAI’s Robot Nearly Beats Human in 10-Hour Sorting

FigureAI ran a 10-hour experiment where a robot competed against a human in sorting packages. The human took legally mandated breaks, while the robot worked nonstop and autonomously.

The task required quick reactions, fine motor skills, and some reasoning. The human sorted 12,924 packages, the robot 12,732, with an average speed difference of just 0.04 seconds.

The robot’s endurance nearly matched the human’s speed, but the human still won by a small margin. FigureAI’s creator said this was the last time a human would win.

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🤖 OpenAI taught Codex to work on a locked Mac from your phone

OpenAI updated Codex so users can now send tasks from a smartphone and have the agent execute them on a Mac even when the computer is locked and the screen is off.

The feature works through the new Computer Use plugin. Codex temporarily unlocks the system in the background, performs the task, and locks the Mac again. If someone touches the keyboard or mouse, the session immediately stops.

Until now, AI agents generally required an active desktop session to function.

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🔊 Vollebak launches jacket with 180 speakers

Vollebak’s jacket has 180 speakers facing inward to stimulate the brain and aid meditation on the move.

It aims to relieve anxiety through sound therapy using specific sounds and frequencies.

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📊 Orbit Robotics unveils four-armed space robot

Canadian company Orbit Robotics introduced HELIOS, a humanoid robot with four arms designed for microgravity environments. The extra arms help it move, stabilize, and perform tasks inside space stations without needing legs.

HELIOS uses a cable-driven actuator system with motors near its shoulders to reduce moving mass. It aims to cut down routine maintenance time, which currently takes astronauts about 35% of their work hours, including up to 50 hours unloading cargo ships.

By handling repetitive tasks like maintenance and cargo management, HELIOS could free astronauts to focus more on science and research aboard the station.

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▶️ Higgsfield’s AI Sci-Fi Debuts at Cannes

Startup Higgsfield created a 95-minute Sci-Fi film called Hell Grind using AI. It is the first AI-generated feature shown at Cannes.

The film’s budget was about $500,000, with nearly 80% spent on computing power for generation.

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🤖 OpenAI Model Solves 80-Year-Old Math Problem

An OpenAI model solved a math problem posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. The task was to find how to place n points on a plane so that the maximum number of pairs share the same fixed distance. For decades, the best known solution was a square grid arrangement.

The AI found a way to arrange points that produces significantly more pairs at a unit distance than any grid. It discovered an infinite family of such arrangements, using algebraic number theory methods never applied to this geometry problem before.

This was not a specialized math program but a general-purpose model. It was not trained or guided specifically to solve this problem, bridging two distant math fields in a way humans had not seen.

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📶 Japanese team hits 112 Gbps at 560 GHz for 6G

Researchers at Tokushima University achieved 112 Gbps wireless speed at 560 GHz, surpassing limits in 6G tech. They used an optical microcomb to reduce power loss and phase noise above 350 GHz.

The microcomb creates ultra-stable laser lines, eliminating phase noise. Two optical signals modulated with QPSK and 16QAM reached 84 Gbps and 112 Gbps respectively. The compact, temperature-controlled device suits practical use.

This targets mobile backhaul links, potentially replacing fiber cables with terahertz wireless beams. The team aims to cut residual noise and develop stronger antennas for longer range.

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🤖 Anthropic to Collaborate with Vatican on AI Ethics

The Vatican announced a new commission on artificial intelligence to develop a unified approach to AI issues, monitor technology progress, and communicate the Church's stance. At the event, Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah confirmed the company's readiness to cooperate on AI ethics.

Anthropic positions itself as a company prioritizing human dignity and safety over unchecked scaling. The Vatican views Anthropic as a model for responsible AI, especially after the company rejected mass surveillance and autonomous weapons projects.

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⏰ Clock Shows Time with 60 Water Pumps

A maker called Strange Inventions built a clock that shows time using colored water in glass bottles. Each digit uses a 15-segment display made of small glass vials filled or emptied by pumps.

The clock has 60 pumps controlling the water flow to light or darken each segment. Four digits form the time display by combining these segments.

This design has no practical use. It needs constant water maintenance, the pumps add complexity, and it stops working if power goes out.

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