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FrontierMeta's new generator doesn't draw - it works like an agentMeta introduced Muse Image and Muse Video. Muse Image doesn't translate a prompt straight into a picture - it calls search and coding tools, self-improves its own generations, and gains from more compute spent at request time.ScienceNew Horizons woke up after 321 days of sleep, 9.5 billion kilometers outNASA confirmed that the New Horizons probe has come out of the longest hibernation in its mission and is in good health. The wake-up happened on 23 June; the spacecraft is already starting to transmit science data from the Kuiper Belt.CultureChanel turned the Grand Palais into a dark fairy tale for Blazy's second couture collectionMatthieu Blazy showed his second haute couture collection for Chanel at the Grand Palais - a fairy-tale garden with giant beanstalks, drawn from a storybook found in Gabrielle Chanel's apartment.RoboticsLeRobot v0.6.0 adds world models - the robot learns by imagining its next moveHugging Face released LeRobot v0.6.0: policies built on 'world models', new VLA models, reward models to score success, a unified CLI for evaluation, and six simulation benchmarks for robot learning.ControlFTC: secretly skewing AI answers may be consumer fraudThe US Federal Trade Commission proposed a position: if a company advertises accurate answers but secretly steers the model's output toward another goal, that can be fraud under Section 5. Public comment period through July 31.BuildersThe province of Alberta checked 466 million lines of code with Claude in 20 hoursAlberta's Ministry of Technology and Innovation scanned 466 million lines of government code in 20 hours with Claude Code, to find and fix security gaps. Work that classic methods would have ground away at for years.CultureJonathan Anderson showed his second haute couture collection for Dior - sculpture turned into a garmentOn July 6 at the Musee Rodin in Paris, Jonathan Anderson presented Dior's fall haute couture - his second collection at the head of the house, led by the language of sculpture.ControlThe UN convened the first Global Dialogue on AI governance - and the science says capability is outrunning controlIn Geneva on July 6, the UN convened its first Global Dialogue on AI. It comes with an independent scientific report by 40 experts, led by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa, and the finding is clear: over a billion people use conversational AI every week, and reliable methods for controlling autonomous systems are still missing.
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