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A new AI decision model called Jev cleared Pokémon Red in under a week, a benchmark that took other AI systems months to reach. Built by TypeSafe AI and monitored by Anthropic's Claude Opus Five, Jev works differently from its predecessors — it selects from a constrained list of choices rather than generating freeform actions, which appears to make all the difference in speed and efficiency.
Shifting to the human side of the industry, a new piece in the Boston Review traces the arc of tech worker organizing — from the walkouts and open letters of the late twenty tens to the quieter present, shaped by layoffs and a chillier economic climate. The argument is that worker leverage in tech was always more fragile than it appeared, and the question now is whether that momentum can be rebuilt.
And on the tools front, a developer has released Llamora, a private AI journal that builds a persistent memory of your entries over time. It joins a growing category of personal AI products promising intimacy and recall, raising the familiar question of how much we're comfortable handing our inner lives to a server somewhere.
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