Google DeepMind's SynthID named a TIME Best Invention of 2026

A hobbyist robot dog's IMU (gyroscope plus accelerometer) tried to correct for uneven gravel in real time, but the quadruped still started wobbling. The builder asks what other terrains Quaddle should attempt next.

Meomuru's 'The Adult I Dreamed Of', written by the artist but generated on Suno, reached No. 3 on Melon's chart after a slow rise since its June release. It sits 10th on Spotify's daily Top 50 South Korea and 2nd on YouTube's Weekly Top Songs with 3.2m weekly views.

Geoffrey Hinton told the Guardian that "superintelligence" has meant "smarter than people" for at least 20 years, and "you can't make it smarter than people just by calling it smarter than people." He said big tech's focus on making AI smarter is "crazy" and that other aspects of the beings matter as much.

Techno producer Reinier Zonneveld's Gaslab raised $1m from angel investors and opened a waitlist for private testing. Artists and rightsholders whose music trains the model get a share of revenue from generated tracks via Gaslab's attribution tech.

In a Beyond AI interview, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns that AI coding agents and the US-China AI race could make superintelligence impossible to control.

The $74.99 Bee Frontier is an updated wrist-worn or clip-on recorder; the $99.99 Bee Eclipse is a credit-card-sized device that magnetically attaches to a phone. Free tier gives 14 days of memory; Bee Pro at $11.99/month adds unlimited summaries plus Alexa+ and Amazon.com integrations.

On BrowseComp-Plus, GPT-4.1 answered 93.49% of questions correctly when handed the supporting documents directly, but accuracy fell to 14.58% when an agent used the same model with BM25 to search for evidence.