Alphabet sheds record $500B as AI Mode dents Search revenue

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.

Robotics and physical AI funding more than doubled year over year, per PitchBook. Genesis AI emerged from stealth with a $105M seed round and demoed a wheeled robot aimed at commercial environments without replicating the human body.

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.