The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”
Researchers at the company built a tool called the Jacobian lens (or J-lens) and used it to uncover a hidden area, which they named the J-space, inside its flagship LLM, Claude.
The J-space contains words related to the response a model is working on but may not ultimately produce. If Claude were a person (which it is not), you might say these hidden words reveal what’s on its mind before it actually speaks.
Meta AI Can Now Use Your Instagram Photos Without Consent. SAG-AFTRA Urges App Users to Opt Out: ‘Take Action to Protect Your Likeness’
SAG-AFTRA is urging its members and all Instagram users to take action against Meta’s new Muse Image model, which has been woven into the Instagram app and makes public accounts susceptible to AI generations of their content. Per Wired: “All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt— if it’s public — and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”
“Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent,” SAG-AFTRA wrote on social media, adding the organization ” recommends that members (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.”
Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat's last theorem
Pierre de Fermat was a 17th-century mathematician Lebrecht Music& Arts, YAY Media AS/Alamy
In the lobby of a central London hotel, tourists are bracing themselves for a day of sightseeing in a heatwave. Meanwhile, staff are resetting the dining room after breakfast. And in a windowless meeting room, assembled academics are contemplating whether humans have a role to play in the future of mathematics, now that AI can prove theorems by itself.
Astronomers reveal how clouds shape the hidden interiors of the galaxy's most common planets
Sub-Neptunes are the most common type of planet in our galaxy. Bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, these worlds remain deeply mysterious because scientists still do not know what they are made of. What astronomers really want to figure out is their interior composition. They could be rocky planets wrapped in hydrogen-rich atmospheres, or they could be volatile-rich worlds loaded with water or carbon-bearing molecules.
Japanese Boy Band Psychic Fever Wants You to Know They’re All ‘Different’: ‘We Don’t Want to Fit in a Box’
Four years after its debut, Psychic Fever built its second full-length album around a simple idea: none of its seven members sound, look or think alike, and that’s exactly the point.
The members of Psychic Fever – Kokoro, Weesa, Tsurugi, Ryoga, Ren, Jimmy and Ryushin – released their second full-length record, “Different,” July 10 through Warner Music and 10K Projects, four years after the band’s 2022 debut album, “P.C.F.” Across 10 tracks, the album pulls from Y2K-inflected R&B, U.K. garage, Afrobeats, trap and ballads, with production from Grammy-nominated Rykeyz, who has worked with Chris Brown and H.E.R. Every one of the group’s seven members had a hand in writing the songs this time, something the band has called its most personal work yet.
Delta expects higher airfare to last, bringing 2026 profit goal in reach, CEO says
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Delta Air Lines' profit goal is in reach this year as the carrier passes along higher fuel costs to customers, pricing power CEO Ed Bastian expects to last even as oil prices drop from multiyear highs.
"I think it's sustainable," Bastian told CNBC in an interview. He said fares will likely stay strong thanks to robust demand, more diverse seat options, and a more disciplined airline industry that's learned from the past and isn't likely to expand capacity as soon oil falls.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's standard edition is "is the full, complete experience", Ubisoft insist in response to Steam DLC furore
They've been under cannon fire
Yarr, ye not be needin' to shell out for the more expensive editions of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced or its day one DLCs if you want to have "the full, complete experience". So developers Ubisoft have said in response to Steam reviews giving the Black Flag remake a thumbs down because it has a bunch of purchasable extras on sale right out of port.
Indie developer says Steam did them a solid by fixing their unbootable game to beat the Next Fest deadline
Making a game is hard, or so I've been told by those brave enough to give it a go. Mistakes happen, and sometimes your game just doesn't work. That's what happened to the developer behind Red Flag, a social deduction game about convincing your friends you're fit to survive the apocalypse in a bunker with limited resources.
Meta found to breach EU laws with 'addictive' Instagram, Facebook designs
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Instagram and Facebook's "addictive" designs have put Meta in breach of the European Union's digital laws, the EU concluded Friday in a preliminary report.
The tech giant violated the EU's Digital Services Act by failing to adequately consider the risks associated with design features that affected the physical well-being of its users, including minors and vulnerable adults, the European Commission said.
World Cup 2026: How football has helped immigrants make a home in the US
For teenager George Lusolo, football felt familiar in a country that was not.
Now 19, he arrived in the US from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018 seeking asylum alongside his mother.
"I really didn't know the language. I didn't know the people," he told BBC Sport Africa.
"I was still a kid so everything was really difficult for me and my mom."
After time in detention in Texas and then a shelter in New York, George eventually settled in Portland.