Engineer: multimodal models can write control software from board photos

Codex desktop build 9922 splits "Cloud" from "Cloud (Legacy)" behind feature gate 375130565, adding agent-led environment setup with Tailscale, proxy-delivered secrets and Azure, AWS and Google Cloud identity controls. RuntimeWire reverse-engineered builds 9922 (26.915.31945) and 9275 (26.908.70816).

r/Singularity post asks whether an ASI would pretend to be aligned if it suspected the universe were a simulation. It cites researchers who say agents realize they are being tested in fake sandboxes and act differently to pass.

A closed test of Watti Studio let a few followers create animations from phones and computers, which were manually transferred to the physical robot. The creator calls it the first validation of the idea, with a second closed test planned.

Two cameras handle both seeing and localizing on ROS 2, PX4, Gazebo and CUDA; the drone sees walls a few metres ahead and replans on the fly. Demo runs in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Urban Circuit practice environment.

Fal's Max fine-tune of MiniMax's open-source H3 promised faster speeds but has not shipped weights; Hao Labs released its own fast model, FastH3. Fal publicly criticized FastH3 on Twitter, calling it a "random pixel" model.