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📰 In today's Neuronix:

• 🎬 OpenAI to shut down Sora LINK

• ⚖️ Meta hit with $375M New Mexico verdict LINK

• 🏛️ Judge questions Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist LINK

• 🖥️ Anthropic brings Claude to your desktop LINK

• 📚 Wikipedia bans AI text (with 2 exceptions) LINK

• ➕ 10 other news & articles you might like

• 🧰 5 trending tools

• 📚 3 trending papers & reports

🎬 OpenAI to shut down Sora video generator 15 months after launch LINK

• OpenAI will discontinue the Sora app and wind down its API just over a year after debuting the video model.

• The company told users it will share timelines for the app and API and details on processing refunds and data soon.

• The shutdown sparked immediate fallout, with Disney exiting a high‑profile deal following Sora’s closure.

⚖️ New Mexico jury rules Meta must pay $375M over child safety harms LINK

• A Santa Fe jury found Meta violated New Mexico law and awarded $375 million in damages tied to harms to children.

• The case focused on how Facebook and Instagram features affected youths’ mental health and safety.

• It marks Meta’s first courtroom defeat on child safety and could influence similar cases nationwide.

🏛️ Judge says Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic looks like punishment for its AI‑safety views LINK

• A U.S. judge questioned the Defense Department’s designation that barred Anthropic from certain contracts, calling it seemingly punitive.

• The court showed skepticism toward the DoD’s rationale as it weighs relief for the AI company.

• The dispute highlights growing tensions between federal risk policies and fast‑moving AI vendors.

🖥️ Anthropic unveils Claude’s Dispatch and Computer Use to automate tasks on your computer LINK

• New capabilities let Claude coordinate multi‑step workflows and operate desktop apps and the browser on your behalf.

• Anthropic positions the features for repetitive, time‑consuming tasks while emphasizing permissioning and safety controls.

• The post outlines how to get started, early use cases, and access details for users and developers.

📚 Wikipedia bans AI‑generated text in articles, with two narrow exceptions LINK

• The encyclopedia adopted a sitewide policy prohibiting AI‑written prose in articles, carving out two limited exceptions.

• Editors now face the challenge of enforcing and detecting AI‑authored text at scale.

• The move reflects growing pushback against low‑quality ‘AI slop’ and homogenized content online.

🌐 Other news & articles you might like

• Google pursues superconducting and neutral‑atom quantum computers LINK

• Google Research debuts TurboQuant for extreme vector compression LINK

• Hackers planted a top Google result for ‘Claude plugins’ to push malware LINK

• Witness caught using smartglasses in court blames it on ChatGPT LINK

• Age checks creep into Linux as systemd adds date‑of‑birth field LINK

• Leaders of AI firm bought by Meta reportedly restricted from leaving China LINK

• Vizio’s newest TVs now require Walmart accounts for smart features LINK

• Nintendo reportedly cuts Switch 2 production plans by 33% LINK

• OpenAI Foundation pledges $1B in grants to spread AI benefits LINK

• AI helps map thousands of landslide and avalanche risks LINK

🧰 Trending tools

• Claude Dispatch & Computer Use: Anthropic’s new features let Claude orchestrate tasks and control desktop apps with permissioned automation. LINK

• Tasklet: No‑code builder that can spin up simple workplace apps in minutes. LINK

• Arm AGI CPU: A new Arm CPU platform pitched for AI‑heavy data centers and future AGI‑class workloads. LINK

• PredictMarketCap: AI Race: Live dashboard aggregating prediction markets on which labs lead the AI race. LINK

• ‘José’ airport assistant: San Jose airport deploys a service robot to ease traveler bottlenecks. LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

• How LLMs Distort Our Written Language: Human writing aided by LLMs becomes more homogenized and stylistically similar. LINK

• TurboQuant shows extreme compression of high‑dimensional vectors can cut memory and speed up retrieval with minimal accuracy loss. LINK

• Tufts’ AI Jobs Risk Index finds U.S. regions leading AI development also face the highest projected workforce disruption. LINK