🍓 Dyson grows AI-powered strawberries

Dyson built large high-tech greenhouses in the UK where strawberries grow on 5.5-meter vertical structures that rotate like a Ferris wheel. This setup maximizes space and sunlight using AI-driven software, smart sensors, robotics, and automation.

The system optimizes growing conditions, improves efficiency, assists with harvesting, and protects crops. Dyson’s move shows how AI and robotics are entering traditional industries like agriculture, blending software, infrastructure, and production.

📊@tech

🤖 Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 with Mythos tech

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first public model built on its Mythos technology. The Mythos line was held back earlier due to its ability to find software vulnerabilities too easily. Fable 5 offers the same power but with strict safety limits.

Claude Fable 5 outperforms the previous flagship Claude Opus 4.8 by over 10% on software development, intellectual tasks, and research tests. It refuses to answer risky queries in cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry, handing those off to older models.

Pricing is steep: $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. This is twice the cost of Claude Opus 4.8 but half what Mythos Preview users paid.

📊@tech

🤖 Claude Fable Developed Its Own Internal Language

During reinforcement learning, Claude Fable started using an unreadable internal style with strange jargon, unusual punctuation, and emojis in long rollout sessions. It switched back to normal English before responding to humans or calling tools.

Anthropic researchers found no signs the model was hiding its reasoning. Instead, this internal language seems to be an emergent optimization to compress its thought process.

📊@tech

🔍 Google Gemini 3.5 Live Translate launched

Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, an audio model that delivers instant voice translation in over 70 languages. It starts translating from the first words and works in real time without awkward pauses.

The system generates speech while listening to the next phrase, balancing speed and quality within fractions of a second. It preserves the speaker's pace, pitch, and intonation with only a slight delay.

Gemini 3.5 is available now in Google Translate on iOS and Android, making conversations smoother across languages.

📊@tech

🤖 Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 Outperforms Peers

Real tests show Claude Fable 5 beating Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT 5.5 on tough visual tasks like 3D hydrodynamics and complex physics. The gap is significant.

Fable 5 is Anthropic's most powerful model open to all users. It is available now and free on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans until June 22.

📊@tech

🤖 Anthropic reverses hidden AI limits after backlash

Anthropic changed its policy less than 48 hours after releasing its AI model Fable. The startup faced criticism for secretly degrading responses to queries related to AI development without notifying users.

Originally, Anthropic openly redirected chemistry, biology, and cybersecurity questions to a weaker model, Opus 4.8. However, a hidden rule quietly reduced answer quality for any requests resembling AI distillation or development attempts.

Engineers received no alerts when these limits triggered, leading to confusion and accusations of sabotage. After public outcry, Anthropic apologized and now clearly informs users when requests are refused or downgraded to reduce misuse risks.

📊@tech

🫡 Xiaomi launches free Claude Code alternative

Xiaomi released MiMo Code, a free terminal AI agent for programming built on OpenCode with an MIT license. It handles long tasks of hundreds of steps by saving state to files and restoring context seamlessly, avoiding memory loss common in other agents.

MiMo Code divides memory into four levels: session notes, project knowledge, user settings, and full action history. It cleans duplicates weekly and converts repeated actions into skills monthly. A Max Mode runs five solutions in parallel, boosting benchmark scores by 10-20% but increasing token use 4-5 times.

📊@tech

🤖 US Orders Anthropic to Block Mythos and Fable

The US government has ordered Anthropic to cut off access to Mythos and Fable for all foreign nationals, including those inside the US and foreign employees of Anthropic.

Anthropic apologized but complied immediately, shutting down access to these models. They called it a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

📊@tech

🔍 Google Gemini 3.5 translates live speech in 70 languages

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, which translates live speech into over 70 languages without pausing. The model processes speech in real time, preserving tone and pace, and marks each synthesized segment with a SynthID watermark.

The feature expanded Google Meet’s language support from 5 to more than 70 languages and over 2000 language pairs. Developers can access it via Gemini Live API, while users get it in the Google Translate app on Android and iOS.

📊@tech

🍏 Pixar Teases New Film Gatto

Pixar teased Gatto, about a cat named Nero who owes the Venetian mafia. Directed by Enrico Casarosa of Luca.

The animation mimics Puss in Boots 2 with a 2D drawing style.

It will release in March next year.

📊@tech

The first commercial computer was unveiled on this day in 1951.

It weighed 16,000 pounds.

Smartphones today weighs less than half a pound.

And are millions of times more powerful.

📊@tech

🌱 Tric deploys UV robots that cut pesticide use by 70%

Tric is deploying autonomous robots that move through fields at night, using UV-C light to kill fungal diseases and spider mites without chemicals. Pilots on California's Central Coast have shown up to 70% reductions in pesticide use.

The technology is based on a simple biological advantage. Many fungi can repair UV damage when exposed to blue light during the day. At night, that repair mechanism does not activate, making the damage permanent. University trials found nighttime UV treatments could eliminate up to 95% of infections on crops including strawberries, grapes, cucumbers, basil, and roses.
⠀
Tric's Eden robot spans more than 40 feet, while its Luna platform covers 6 rows at a time across 50 to 100 acres. The machines can carry UV systems, bug vacuums, and precision cameras in a single pass.
⠀
Farmers do not buy the robots. They subscribe to the service, while Tric operates the fleet.

📊@tech

🤖 OpenRouter launches Model Fusion system

OpenRouter introduced Model Fusion, a system that merges multiple neural networks into one advisory unit. It supports combinations like GPT-5.5 with Opus 4.8 tailored for specific tasks.

These model blends can outperform Claude Fable 5 in efficiency while running faster and costing less.

📊@tech

👟 Adidas makes World Cup ball a smart device

The official World Cup ball Trionda must be wirelessly charged before each match. It contains a 14-gram motion sensor operating at 500 Hz, tracking position, speed, spin, and direction 500 times per second. A full charge lasts about 6 hours, enough for the entire game including extra time.

Sensor data combines with stadium cameras to create a real-time 3D model of every play. This feeds the VAR room to speed up and improve decisions on offsides, handballs, and goal-line calls. At around $170, Trionda may be the most expensive standard match ball in World Cup history.

📊@tech