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Instacart debuts Clementine, an AI assistant that builds grocery carts from chats and lists

Instacart introduced Clementine, an AI-powered shopping assistant that converts natural-language requests, recipes, or grocery lists into ready-to-purchase carts. Users can ask for things like budget-friendly kids' lunches or high-protein dinners, upload photos of handwritten lists, and get recipes tailored to dietary needs such as gluten-free or vegetarian preferences. Clementine also surfaces deals and cheaper alternatives while shopping.

OpenAI says AI agent swarm produced formal proof on Navier-Stokes problem

OpenAI published a paper claiming an unreleased model coordinated up to 10,000 AI agents over 88 hours to produce a formal Lean proof addressing the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness Millennium Prize Problem. The company says the proof identifies conditions under which the equations develop a mathematical singularity, not evidence that real fluids behave impossibly. Outside mathematicians have yet to verify the claim.

Oil Tops $100 a Barrel as Apple Preps Foldable iPhone Debut Under New CEO Ternus

Brent crude climbed past the $100-per-barrel mark amid escalating US-Canada trade tensions, while Apple prepared to hold its annual product event, expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone. The event also marks the public debut of John Ternus, who recently took over as Apple's CEO, with analysts watching for potential price increases across the product lineup.

Meta's new AI product seizes @muse handle from rock band on Instagram and X

Meta launched a personal AI agent named Muse this week and took over the @muse username on both Instagram and X, usernames the rock band Muse had held for over a decade. The band has been pushed to @museband on Instagram and @musetheband on X, with no public explanation from either Meta or the band about how the switch occurred.

AI researcher Danijar Hafner builds agents that plan in unfamiliar environments

Danijar Hafner, a 31-year-old AI researcher named to MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 list, runs a quiet San Francisco startup filled with humanoid robots suspended from racks. He has spent years refining world-model-based agents by testing them against video games, and is now moving that work from simulations into physical robots operating in real environments.

White House removes 'Build The Wall' game after Tetris Company copyright complaint

The White House deleted a Tetris-style browser game called 'Build The Wall' from its website days after The Tetris Company publicly objected to the unauthorized use of its game mechanics and look. The company said on X it had no involvement in creating the game and takes copyright infringement seriously. The White House has not explained the removal or responded to media inquiries.

Christie's Beverly Hills to Showcase 50 Experimental Chairs by Rick Owens, Kelly Wearstler and Playlab

Christie's is preparing a selling exhibition in Beverly Hills that will gather 50 unconventional chairs created by designers including Rick Owens, Kelly Wearstler and Playlab. The pieces use materials ranging from antlers and steel to balloons, cardboard and resin, highlighting Los Angeles as a hub for experimental furniture design.

Experts split on whether women outperform men in ultra-endurance racing

Sports scientists say research is still too limited to confirm claims that women have a physiological edge over men in ultra-endurance running, though some early evidence points that way. Runners like Sophie Woods and Yngvild Kaspersen argue that mental resilience, adaptability and preparation give women an advantage in extreme, multi-day events regardless of what the physiology eventually shows.

LG denies smart TVs secretly record audio, calls Gamers Nexus claims false

LG issued a statement to Tom's Hardware rejecting claims from a Gamers Nexus investigation that its smart TVs constantly log data and record ambient audio even in standby mode. LG confirmed its TVs scan local networks for other devices, a common smart-TV feature, but insisted voice data is only processed when a remote button is pressed or a wake word like 'Hi LG' is detected. The company said no audio is transmitted unless that wake word is recognized, and wake-word detection itself happens on-device rather than being sent to servers.

US agencies accuse DeepSeek, Alibaba and other Chinese AI firms of mass model distillation

The NSA, CISA and FBI issued a joint advisory alleging that Chinese AI companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens from US frontier models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since 2024. The agencies say this data was used to train competing systems like DeepSeek's R1 and Moonshot's Kimi K2/K3, describing the practice as 'distillation activities at an industrial scale.'

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