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Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
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Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But every single one of Nightborne's…

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The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter

Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.

Jul 22, 2026

AI ResearchMarkTechPost

Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model with 8B active parameters per token and a 1M-token context. It matches or beats models several times its size on agentic coding benchmarks, ships under OpenMDW-1.1, and runs on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark. The post Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class…

Jul 22, 2026

IndustryTechCrunch

Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination

At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.

Jul 21, 2026

AI ResearchThe Verge

OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. | Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging…

Jul 21, 2026

IndustryTechCrunch

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

Jul 21, 2026

AI ResearchHugging Face

The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview

Jul 21, 2026

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Machine Learning Specialization

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Generative AI for Everyone

Andrew Ng explains how generative AI works and how to apply it in your work and life — no coding required.

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CS50's Introduction to AI with Python

Harvard's deep dive into the algorithms behind modern AI — search, knowledge, optimization, and machine learning.

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