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In today's Techpresso:

💥 ChatGPT is getting an AI coding agent

🧑‍⚖️ Anthropic lawyer forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated legal citation

🚧 Meta delays Llama 4 Behemoth AI model over capability concerns

🤖 Grok’s white genocide fixation caused by ‘unauthorized modification’

🎮 Apple blocks Fortnite from App Store worldwide

👨‍⚕️ World's first AI doctor clinic now open in Saudi Arabia

🎁 + 12 other news you might like

🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools

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💥 ChatGPT is getting an AI coding agent LINK
  • OpenAI is launching a new AI coding assistant called Codex for its Pro, Enterprise, and Team subscribers, positioning it as their next major product offering.
  • This virtual coworker tool aims to help software developers by independently generating code from natural language, fixing bugs, and running tests within a sandboxed environment.
  • Powered by a specialized reasoning model, the system currently operates without internet access but is envisioned to eventually abstract coding complexity and work autonomously on tasks.
🧑‍⚖️ Anthropic lawyer forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated legal citation LINK
  • Anthropic has confirmed its AI chatbot, Claude, invented a fake legal citation that was mistakenly submitted as evidence during a copyright lawsuit against the company.
  • This falsified reference, containing an inaccurate title and incorrect authors for a genuine publication, "slipped" past a manual review and prompted a judicial request for an explanation.
  • The company's lawyer was consequently required to formally apologize for these AI-generated inaccuracies, although Anthropic maintained the error was an oversight and not intentional deception.
🚧 Meta delays Llama 4 Behemoth AI model over capability concerns LINK
  • Meta has postponed the release of its largest AI model, codenamed "Behemoth," indefinitely due to internal uncertainties about its actual capabilities and mounting tensions within the company.
  • Engineering teams reportedly struggle to deliver substantial improvements over earlier versions, fueling internal skepticism about whether the new system is prepared for public unveiling.
  • Company leadership's growing frustration with the Llama 4 team, alongside past incidents with AI model benchmarks, underscores Meta's difficulties in the evolving AI field.
🤖 Grok’s white genocide fixation caused by ‘unauthorized modification’ LINK
  • xAI attributed Grok's recent politically charged statements about "white genocide" to an unauthorized alteration of its system prompt made in early May.
  • To increase transparency, the company announced plans to publish all system instructions on GitHub and implement more rigorous review procedures for future changes.
  • Tests suggest additional control methods beyond system directives might be influencing Grok’s behavior, as its responses changed even when prompts allegedly remained unaltered.
🎮 Apple blocks Fortnite from App Store worldwide LINK
  • Apple has prevented the popular game Fortnite from returning to its App Store, according to Epic Games, the title's creator.
  • This decision means Fortnite is currently unavailable on iPhones and iPads across the globe, including in the European Union via the Epic Games Store.
  • Epic Games had resubmitted Fortnite to the US digital marketplace after a legal judgment allowed developers to include links to alternative payment systems.
👨‍⚕️ World's first AI doctor clinic now open in Saudi Arabia LINK
  • A Chinese tech company, Synyi AI, has initiated a trial for its premier artificial intelligence-guided medical center in Saudi Arabia, marking its first overseas market entry.
  • Within this facility, a virtual doctor named "Dr. Hua" performs initial diagnoses and drafts treatment recommendations, which a human physician subsequently reviews and authorizes.
  • This pioneering clinic currently concentrates on diagnosing approximately 30 respiratory conditions, with plans to broaden its capabilities to cover about 50 different ailments later.

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Trending research and tools

I Dropped My Phone The Screen Cracked: a web audio library using method chaining and CSS-style selectors to simplify creating, configuring, and connecting browser audio nodes. LINK
Huawei's OpenHarmony initiative: a campaign making numerous proposals to adapt various open-source projects for its operating system. LINK
SQL-tString: a Python library for building SQL queries using t-strings, designed to prevent SQL injection and manage optional query parts. LINK
Grok Prompts: a publicly shared set of core instructions that guide the Grok AI, its X bot, and related features on X and grok.com. LINK

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