Physical AI startups raised record $27.6B across 1,009 deals in 2025

Retail experts warn that blocking AI personal agents such as Meta's Muse may not work long-term, since technology that removes customer friction usually wins.

Open-weight models have trailed the best closed models by about four months on average since January 2026, per Epoch AI's May 29 analysis. Small models need roughly 8GB of VRAM or Mac unified memory; Gemma 4 downloads in Ollama range from 4.6GB to 20GB.

Heretic 2.0 ships after almost 5 months of development, billed by its author as the biggest release of the model-modification tool yet. It is described as the leading software for removing censorship from language models.

The site hosts 240+ videos — breathing exercises, workouts, Bob Ross clips and other distractions — aimed at helping users resist urges during No Nut November. It also includes a 30-day program.

Seven training runs produced a checkpoint with convincing photographic output but that appeared to forget every other capability. The experiment started from an old hard drive the poster found.

A r/ClaudeAI post claims to reproduce Claude's internal design system rules: no comments, no font sizes below 11px, no emoji, and Tabler outline icons only from a preloaded 5,800+ webfont. The post says it can't paste the full set.