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Scientists are scratching their heads after GPS signals across the United States drifted by as much as thirty-three feet in an anomaly researchers say they have simply never encountered before. The cause remains unclear, but the implications for navigation, aviation, and infrastructure are serious enough that investigators are moving quickly.
Meanwhile, over at Meta, the company is threading a delicate needle with its workforce. After facing internal pushback over pressure to hit so-called tokenmaxxing quotas — essentially forcing heavy AI usage metrics — leadership is softening that mandate while quietly rolling out Hatch, its most sophisticated AI agent yet. It is a reminder that even the companies building these tools are still figuring out how to live with them.
And on the model front, Google has announced two new variants of Gemini three point eight Flash. One is engineered as a workhorse for agentic and multi-step reasoning tasks, while its sibling, Flash Cyber, is purpose-built to hunt software vulnerabilities. CEO Sundar Pichai is calling it a significant leap, though in this industry, that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
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