Google launches Playground: type a game into existence
Google's new Playground lets US adults type a game idea into a playable browser game, while Unity's upcoming Spark tool ties AI-made games to its Asset Store.
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Finland's licensing regulator has ordered Google to pause site prep at two data center projects until environmental reviews finish, after large-scale forest clearing got ahead of the assessment.
Child Safety Group Gives ChatGPT for Teens Its Worst Rating
Common Sense Media gave OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens its lowest rating, citing missed crisis referrals, silent parental alerts and workarounds in study mode.
ChatGPT Switches All Users to GPT-6, Replies Gain Buttons and Forms
OpenAI made GPT-6 the default model for all ChatGPT tiers and launched Intelligent UI, so replies can include buttons, forms and charts, not just text.
Claude Haiku 5.5 Debuts With Input Pricing Cut to $0.10
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 charges $0.10 per million input tokens under 100K, matching OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna, though a new tokenizer trims some of the savings.
GitHub rebuilds Git storage as commits jump 5x in a year
AI agents pushed GitHub's write traffic past old limits, so the company is rebuilding Git storage for up to 35x more throughput.
METR Finds AI Eval Log-Tampering Flaw in 10 Minutes
METR showed how an AI agent could rewrite its own evaluation logs by exploiting a formula-rendering bug in the Inspect viewer; the maintainer patched it within a day.
Musk: Grok Bot Will Route Tasks to Claude Opus 5.5
Elon Musk says Grok Bot will send tasks to Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno, but routing, billing and model-disclosure details remain unexplained.
Google Open-Sources 740M-Parameter Multimodal Embedding Model
Google open-sourced EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter multimodal embedding model for on-device text, image, audio and video search, under Apache 2.0.
Claude Enters Google Docs, Sheets and Slides
Anthropic's Claude for Google Workspace sidebar now lets paid users edit Docs, Sheets and Slides directly, alongside three new connectors and shared Work skills.