AdaL Engineer routes tasks to specialized models for automation loops

A Reddit user reports chatgpt.com consuming 18GB of memory in Firefox, sharing a screenshot of the usage. No official response or explanation from OpenAI appears in the thread.

New York State Office for the Aging signed a new three-year, $2.1 million agreement with Intuition Robotics to keep placing the ElliQ AI companion with older adults at risk of loneliness. The program has run since 2022, with similar partnerships in Wisconsin, Florida, and Washington.

The first Stargardt disease patient received the PRIMA implant in May at Sydney Eye Hospital in Australia. Stargardt affects roughly 150,000 people worldwide; PRIMA is already commercially available in Europe for geographic atrophy.

Andrew Feldman said at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that home AI assistants are "not very far away," running partly on-device and partly in the cloud. He cited Meta's Muse and Instinct, a startup now valued at $10 billion, as signs of consumer agent traction.

A hobbyist wired Intern-Decision-2B into OpenCE, feeding it game state as text — player/NPC positions, health, ammo — plus raycasts for obstacle detection, and translating its predicted actions into game input.

Two r/ClaudeAI and r/ChatGPT threads describe heavy daily reliance: one user says Claude now reads and drafts all their email and documents, another runs a small SaaS business through hundreds of ChatGPT exchanges a day as a "second CEO brain."