The Same OpenAI Model at the Center of a Plagiarism Dispute Just Cracked 100 More Math Problems.

1  Google opened pre-orders for its first AI-native laptop line, built around a pointer that summons Gemini from anywhere on screen.

The new Googlebook lineup is now up for pre-order, and it leads with a couple of genuinely different AI-first features: Magic Pointer, which can call up Gemini from wherever your cursor happens to be, and Rambler, a voice transcription tool built for capturing thoughts before you lose them. The laptop also syncs with Android phones, letting you carry an app between devices mid-task. See the full feature rundown here, or take a first look at the hardware itself.

2  The same OpenAI model tangled in a plagiarism dispute over its Navier-Stokes claim has reportedly cracked 100 more open math problems.

OpenAI says the model behind its contested Navier-Stokes result has now allegedly solved over 100 additional long-standing open problems in mathematics. Given the controversy still hanging over the first claim, the lab isn't just announcing this one; it's bringing in an outside panel of mathematicians to review, verify, and help decide how the findings actually get communicated. That extra layer of scrutiny is a pretty clear sign the first dispute left a mark.

3  SpaceXAI shipped its strongest model yet for knowledge work, at the exact same price and speed as its predecessor.

Grok 4.7 keeps the same pricing and response speed as Grok 4.6 but brings a real jump in capability, according to the lab. It's built to stick with harder tasks for longer, double-check its own work more rigorously, and produce noticeably better documents and presentations. It's live now inside Grok Build, Cursor, and the API.

Muse just had its breakout moment. Meta's personal agent has knocked ChatGPT off the top spot on Apple's App Store and helped push Meta's stock up roughly 20% since launch. It's shaping up to be one of the company's biggest wins in years, and it's also kicked off a genuine power struggle over what a personal agent is actually allowed to do on your behalf.

Amazon shut the door. Muse agents won't be getting two-day shipping anytime soon. Amazon blocked Muse from making purchases on its platform, citing privacy and security concerns for shoppers. There's an obvious business incentive sitting right behind that stated reason too: Amazon's $68 billion ad business depends on real humans actually browsing and clicking, something an autonomous agent has no reason to do.

Shopify walked through it instead. Shopify took the opposite bet, partnering directly with Meta to let Muse handle checkout across its network of stores. Where Amazon sees a threat to its existing revenue model, Shopify sees an early opportunity to become the default checkout layer for agent-driven shopping before anyone else claims it.

This is really a fight over who owns the customer relationship. If agents end up free to shop wherever they want, retailers risk losing their direct line to the customer, and the advertising revenue that comes bundled with it. If enough retailers follow Amazon's lead and lock agents out, though, those same agents only end up as useful as whichever sites actually let them in. Amazon is playing defense here. Shopify is playing offense. Nobody knows yet which bet actually wins.

🚀 Putting Jev through its paces. Hobbyists have already started stress-testing TypeSafe's new Jev model. One person built a smarter copy-paste tool that automatically fills the right fields on a form, while someone else built a browser agent that finds flight tickets in about 7 seconds.

🐟 An unexpectedly wholesome use case. AI keeps landing in the weirdest side projects. This week's entry: someone wired a Big Mouth Billy Bass to shout motivational speeches at them mid-workout (16,000 likes). Not the application anyone expected, but here we are.

🎭 A trust problem hiding in plain sight. A viral Reddit demo is giving people genuine pause about what they can trust online, showing exactly how easily someone's identity can be swapped mid-stream, in real time, during a live video (3,000 upvotes).

🍿 Close enough to fool you. A fan-made DuckTales trailer has pulled in more than 2 million views, largely because it looks unsettlingly close to something an actual studio would release.

🍎 A settlement worth checking. Apple agreed to a $250 million settlement over claims it marketed Siri AI features that ended up shipping later than buyers were told to expect. Some US iPhone owners can now file a claim for a piece of it. Check whether you qualify here.