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Longtime Marley Spoon subscribers say their boxes have arrived with melted ice, warm proteins and dozens of missing ingredients since the meal kit brand switched fulfillment to Misfits Market. The shift followed the April bankruptcy of former supplier FreshRealm, which also served Blue Apron, and customers report getting little help from customer service when reporting damaged or incomplete deliveries.
A new open-source project called Experiential offers an OpenAI-compatible gateway and router for agent workflows, letting teams route requests across hosted, bring-your-own-key, and local models through a single API. It includes controls over which users and agents can access specific models, spending limits, and a wizard that sets up a local gateway with a one-time API key in minutes. A hosted version is also available, supporting both OpenAI and Anthropic Messages API formats and integration with coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
Z.ai has confirmed it built the mysterious 'Ox Alpha' model that surged in popularity on OpenRouter last week, rebranding it as GLM-5.3-Flash. The model, served largely on Chinese-made chips, is open-weight, cheap, and aimed at coding and agentic tasks like browsing and controlling desktop apps, and its weights are now downloadable on Hugging Face. Z.ai's stock jumped following the reveal.
System 3 Software unveiled James Pond Legacy: The Pond Is Not Enough, a compilation bundling four classic James Pond platformers from the Amiga, Genesis, Commodore 64 and SNES. Fans quickly accused the collection's new artwork of being AI-generated, a suspicion reinforced when System 3's own blog post defending its 'human-led' art process appeared to include AI-style images itself. Series creator Chris Sorrell, who has no ownership or input over the franchise, publicly condemned the release, saying he hopes those behind it 'choke on an AI-generated fishbone.'
WIRED's Uncanny Valley podcast reports that despite the US-China AI rivalry over chips and model performance, researchers from both countries are beginning informal cooperation on AI safety. Senior writer Will Knight, who recently traveled to China, discusses growing concern over increasingly capable AI agents that can autonomously act, including hacking systems, and why that risk may push rival nations toward collaboration.
Nokia and HMD Global released the 300 Charge, a blocky retro-style feature phone priced around $32 with a powerbank function, SD card slot, headphone jack and bright LED flashlight. The device is currently sold only in the Philippines, with no announced release date for the US or other markets.
More than 100 companies spanning AI, cloud, finance and cybersecurity—including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, AWS and CrowdStrike—signed an open letter urging coordinated action against AI-powered cyberattacks. The letter warns that AI-enabled attacks will grow more widespread and sophisticated as models improve, and calls on governments, industry and AI developers to build stronger defensive tools and monitoring systems.
A class action lawsuit filed against Oura alleges the company misled consumers about how accurately its smart ring detects sleep stages, arguing it lacks sensors for brain waves, eye movement and other neurological signals needed to truly measure sleep. Plaintiff Madison Surber says she paid roughly $503 for the ring believing its tracking claims, and cites a Nature study suggesting the device's sleep-stage detection performs little better than random guessing.
An entrepreneur behind more than 22 companies at DRC Ventures argues that corporate values only matter when tested by hard trade-offs, not when displayed as slogans. He describes turning mission statements into operational filters that guide daily decisions on suppliers, partnerships and deals, even when a less principled option would be easier or more profitable.
A woman identified as Jane Doe has sued xAI, alleging that Grok was trained on child sexual abuse material depicting her as a preschooler in the early 2000s. She learned of the AI-generated images through a Canadian child protection group after receiving a Justice Department victim notification, and claims xAI stores Grok's outputs to further train the model, compounding the harm.
Rockstar Games released a 26-minute extended look at Grand Theft Auto VI, streaming first on Netflix for six hours before hitting the Rockstar YouTube channel later the same day. The footage details the game's Florida-inspired setting of Leonida, introduces protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, and shows an early gameplay sequence involving a drug raid shootout.
Meta has reached a settlement with attorneys general from 52 states and territories that ends a years-long lawsuit accusing the company of failing to protect children on its platforms. The deal requires Meta to pay a capped amount of roughly $16.68 billion and to roll out a series of new safety features, while also pledging to push YouTube and TikTok to adopt similar measures, even though that would raise Meta's own payout under the settlement's terms.