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OpenAI just introduced ChatGPT for Teens, designed for users ages 13–17 with stronger safety protections built in by default.

It focuses heavily on learning with Study Mode, responsible homework reminders, quizzes, learning visualizations, and optional Study Hours. Parents can also use controls like Quiet Hours and receive limited safety notifications in higher-risk situations.

OpenAI says the goal is to help teens use AI to learn and think through problems rather than simply get answers, while adding age-appropriate protections around sensitive content and unhealthy AI dependence.

What do you think — is a separate teen-focused ChatGPT experience the right approach?

xAI just released Grok 4.6, with a major focus on long-running agents, coding, research, and turning ideas into complete working applications.

According to xAI, the model is better at staying on complex tasks across many steps, working through codebases, researching unfamiliar topics, building interactive projects, and even checking its own work before continuing.

Some of the reported benchmark numbers are pretty interesting:

• 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-5.6 Sol
• 69.9% on CursorBench 3.2
• 65.9% on DeepSWE 1.1
• 61.3% on FrontierCode 1.1 Extended

Grok 4.6 is already available through Cursor, Grok Build, the xAI API, OpenRouter, Vercel, and Cloudflare. API pricing starts at $2/M input tokens and $6/M output tokens, with a faster variant costing twice as much.

The benchmark numbers look strong, but I’m more interested in the long-running agent improvements.

Has anyone tested Grok 4.6 on a real coding project or multi-hour agent task yet? How does it compare with GPT-5.6 Sol or other frontier models in actual use?

CBC News

All to feed AI (most likely).

Deepgram is currently offering $200 in free promotional credits for eligible new users, and no credit card is required to claim them.

What you get:

• $200 in free Deepgram credits
• No credit card required
• Speech-to-Text (STT)
• Text-to-Speech (TTS)
• Voice AI APIs for development and testing

How to claim: Sign up for a free Deepgram account here

During signup, choose any options you want or skip them. The $200 promotional credits should be added automatically to your account.

According to Deepgram, the promotional credits remain available until they are used. Keep in mind that offer availability and eligibility may change at any time.

I’ve attached a screenshot showing the $200 credit in the account dashboard.

If you try it and it works for you, drop a comment below. Your feedback might help others in the community too.

Powered by Gemini Robotics 2, it's learning to master tasks that humans find simple, but robots find complex - like tying a trash bag or packing a gym bag.

Clip from Joe Rogan

This map covers it end to end: what an agent is, how it remembers, which tools it plugs into and how real companies run one in production. 10 steps, from your first prompt to scaling a whole fleet of agents.

If you use Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, or you're building automations in n8n or Make, study this before you touch anything else.

Save the image. You'll come back to it more than once.

By 2026 everyone has the same tools, and any feature you ship gets copied within a week. What survives is the kind of edge nobody can clone, because it runs on data nobody else has.

That's why we're building ToneUp: an AI GTM engine trained on data earned by helping companies like Nvidia and Google reach the right people.

That data is the moat. It decides whether a product gets found or vanishes from the feed.

By July, his AI hedge fund had grown to around $45 billion.
By the end of the month, he was forced to sell most of its public portfolio.

Leopold Aschenbrenner was an AI researcher at OpenAI before leaving the company in 2024.

Soon afterward, he published Situational Awareness, a 165-page essay predicting that advanced AI would arrive much faster than most people expected.

His argument was simple. Building increasingly powerful AI would require an unprecedented amount of chips, memory, data centers, and electricity.

The essay spread across Silicon Valley and became one of the most influential pieces written about the future of AI. Some investors treated it almost like an investment thesis.

Leopold then launched a hedge fund with the same name, Situational Awareness, in late 2024.

He turned his predictions into trades. The fund bought companies positioned to benefit from the AI infrastructure boom, including chip, memory, data center, and computing businesses. It also bet against software companies he believed AI could disrupt.

The strategy worked extraordinarily well.

The fund started 2026 with roughly $8 billion and reportedly gained 439% after fees by the end of June. By July 1, it had grown to around $45 billion.

Then the market turned.

Several of its largest AI holdings fell more than 35%, while some of its short positions moved in the opposite direction.

Because the portfolio was heavily leveraged, the losses multiplied and triggered demands for more collateral.

The fund lost 67% during July and was forced to sell most of its public stock portfolio to Citadel.

Leopold admitted that it came dangerously close to permanently destroying investors’ capital.

He did not lose everything. The fund remains up around 80% this year and still owns billions in private investments, including a major stake in Anthropic.

His long-term prediction about AI may eventually prove correct. The market nearly eliminated him before he could find out.

You can have the right idea, the right timing over the long run, and still lose if your risk management doesn't let you survive the short term.

As Warren Buffett famously said, “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”

Beale Infrastructure controlled an automated program that generated hundreds of identical emails under the names of Coweta, Oklahoma residents supporting its proposed Project Atlas data center. Vice Mayor Jeremy Barnett received roughly two hundred such messages, contacted one named resident, and obtained a denial of authorship together with a statement of opposition. When Barnett presented the evidence to Beale, the company acknowledged control of the program and disabled it.

Community activist Darren Blanchard obtained the mayor–vice-mayor text messages through an Open Records Act request, bringing the scheme into public view. The Oklahoma Attorney General’s office later affirmed that the city retains discretion under the Open Records Act to redact sender identities on the ground that the communications constitute the exercise of constitutional petition rights. The same statutory protection that shields genuine citizen comment therefore shielded the automated impersonations, preventing further forensic identification of the senders.

Project Atlas itself was withdrawn by Beale Infrastructure at the end of March 2026. Local police investigated the emails; no criminal charges against the developer have been publicly announced. Parallel nondisclosure agreements signed by Coweta officials with Beale had already limited earlier transparency around the project’s existence and terms.

The practical result is a completed instance of manufactured public comment in a municipal permitting process, followed by a legal interpretation that left the automated source unaccountable while the underlying project was abandoned under community pressure.

Sources

Data center scandal - Who sent fake emails of support for Project Atlas? – KTUL

https://ktul.com/news/local/data-center-scandal-who-sent-fake-emails-of-support-for-project-atlas

Push for transparency over data center emails hits brick wall – KTUL

https://ktul.com/news/local/push-for-transparency-over-data-center-emails-hits-brick-wall

Fraudulent email issue raised in Coweta data center – Oklahoma Energy Today

https://okenergytoday.com/2026/06/fraudulent-email-issue-raised-in-coweta-data-center/

How data center developers won secrecy pledges from Oklahoma officials – Read Frontier

https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/how-data-center-developers-won-secrecy-pledges-from-oklahoma-officials/

'Project Atlas' data center application withdrawn in Coweta, Oklahoma – Data Center Dynamics

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/project-atlas-data-center-application-withdrawn-in-coweta-oklahoma/

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Alabama Democratic gubernatorial candidate Doug Jones

https://www.dougjones.com/about-doug

Video from Requires their app:

https://www.noosphere.app/doug-jones-this-is-a-change-election/

Waving distracts us, so...

From 404 media.

https://www.404media.co/person-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-clapping-at-city-meeting/