Manus parent Butterfly Effect raises over $500M after Meta deal unwound

A 1984 Soviet text by A. V. Brushlinsky, published in the Markov-edited collection 'Cybernetics Today', argues against the possibility of machine thought. The essay is being circulated via an Internet Archive scan.

Musk posted that SpaceX will route Grok tasks to "the best back end model," naming Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney and Suno. Suno has no public API yet; CPO Jack Brody said a developer API is in the works with a curated partner group.

A Reddit user is tweaking a latent chain shot workflow for long-form video generation and asking r/StableDiffusion whether it is worth pursuing. The proposed feature keeps approved shots and advances to the next automatically.

Gamers are using Claude-based AI agents to vibe code "passthrough mods" that run two games at once, producing mashups like Skate inside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Minecraft characters fighting Elden Ring bosses. A GitHub guide claims merging Elden Ring and Spider-Man took three to four hours, though first results are often rough.