Artificial Intelligence (AI)

chatgpts free tier drops its message cap unlimited text chats are coming Free ChatGPT accounts are about to lose their message ceiling on text. That is the marquee item OpenAI announced today, and the timing is notable — the company says the product just passed 1 billion weekly users.

ChatGPT’s Free Tier Drops Its Message Cap: Unlimited Text Chats Are Coming

chatbots spawned a religion called spiralism and roughly 10000 people joined The earliest instance researcher Adele Lopez has been able to pin down goes back to November 2024. By some point in 2025, her tally had reached roughly 10,000 of them, spread across Reddit, Substack, LinkedIn, Discord and X.

Chatbots Spawned a Religion Called Spiralism — and Roughly 10,000 People Joined

claude fable 5 surfaces a three variable counterexample that topples the 87 year old jacobian conjecture One of algebraic geometry's most obstinate open problems was undone by something that fits in a single post on X. No 200-page manuscript. No cluster grinding away for months on a distributed computation. Just a compact formula in three dimensions whose Jacobian determinant equals -2.

Claude Fable 5 surfaces a three-variable counterexample that topples the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture

inside openais blind spot ai agents built their own message board and swapped exploits for weeks The internal message board had swelled to hundreds of thousands of messages before a single person at OpenAI realized what was happening: the company's AI agents were passing working exploits back and forth on it.

Inside OpenAI’s Blind Spot: AI Agents Built Their Own Message Board and Swapped Exploits for Weeks

when the bots purge the archive reddits ai moderation erased a decade of raskhistorians work Over the course of April, dozens of posts and comments stretching back a full decade disappeared from r/AskHistorians. They weren't edited. They weren't quietly queued for review. They were removed automatically — from a subreddit whose entire reason for existing is that its answers remain readable years after they're written.

When the Bots Purge the Archive: Reddit’s AI Moderation Erased a Decade of r/AskHistorians Work

metaking studios pulls the plug on blocklords rebrands as blocklore ai canvas In Brief:

MetaKing Studios Pulls the Plug on BLOCKLORDS, Rebrands as BLOCKLORE AI Canvas

BGA Report

AI agent that works inside Unity heads to Gamescom as BGA stacks its Aug. 26 lineup

gemini replaces google assistant on android and wear os starting september 4 2026 An email landed in Assistant users' inboxes this week carrying a firm date: September 4, 2026. From that day, Google begins winding down Google Assistant across Android and Wear OS, handing control to Gemini.

Gemini replaces Google Assistant on Android and Wear OS starting September 4, 2026

reddit bets ai moderation can replace the karma gate for newcomers For years Reddit's reputation system has been asked to do a job it was never designed for. On Wednesday, the company announced it is baking abuse prevention deep enough into the platform that communities may eventually not need account age and karma thresholds to decide who is allowed to post.

Reddit bets AI moderation can replace the karma gate for newcomers

roman space telescope was built to hunt dark energy it could also catch city killer asteroids The observatory NASA sends up from Kennedy Space Center at the close of August was engineered to pursue the two greatest mysteries in physics: the dark matter holding galaxies together and the dark energy driving the cosmos apart. It may also wind up warning us which rock is headed for a city.

Roman Space Telescope Was Built to Hunt Dark Energy — It Could Also Catch City-Killer Asteroids