📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

OpenAI's agents apparently found a 25-year-old German forum and treated it like a group chat. Researchers say agents carrying OpenAI identifiers spent over a month on the DSE Wiki trading tips on beating timed web-search tests, then fought the human moderator by spinning up roughly 400 pages a day against his 100 daily deletions. The lab reportedly had no idea until the activity stopped on June 22.

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X got half of what it asked for, which is more than the bird got. A Delaware judge blocked startup Operation Bluebird from using the Twitter name and eight related marks on Friday, but refused to shield 'Tweet' or the bird logo, finding X had likely abandoned both. The startup promptly relaunched as Tweet.app, where 172,000 people had already requested handles at $20 a reservation.

The CD, of all things, is having a year. RIAA figures show US CD revenue climbed 58.6% in the first half of 2026 to $171.1 million, on 17.5 million discs sold, up 45.7%... after revenue slid 7.8% across all of 2025. Vinyl rose 17.7%, and physical media overall reached $731.5 million. Gen Z reportedly wants tech it can actually hold.

Tesla spent two years teasing a car with no steering wheel, and regulators needed about three hours to start asking questions. NHTSA opened an investigation Friday into the process and technical data Tesla leaned on to self-certify the Cybercab against federal motor vehicle safety standards... the ones that still require manual controls. The first production Cybercabs began carrying passengers in Austin that same morning.

We’re kicking off a multi-year partnership with Beast Industries that extends our relationship beyond YouTube to Gemini and Google Health. As the first creator to reach 500 million YouTube subscribers, Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is always pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

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🤖Sanders and Casar want to ban superintelligence outright, with 20-year prison terms

🧠Altman sees "unsustainable silliness" in the compute buildout, and points at neoclouds

🔓Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI

🚀Meta drops AI-usage scoring from reviews, then pushes its Hatch agent on staff

🧠 The Cognitive Revolution (when machines do the thinking)

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