TODAY IN AI
1 Firefox launched an AI browser assistant that runs entirely on your device, letting you choose which model it uses and which data it can see.
Smart Window adds an optional chatbot that pulls live information from the internet and automatically groups your open tabs into categories. You choose which model powers it and which data it can access, and everything is stored locally on your device and deletable at any time. It is powered by Exa, an AI-first web search provider. The local-storage, model-choice combination is a meaningfully different privacy posture than most AI browser assistants currently ship with.
2 Chip startup Etched doubled its valuation to $21B in under a month after delivering its first hardware rack to a real customer.
Etched, the US-based startup building a new type of AI semiconductor cluster, delivered its first chip rack to quantitative trading firm Jane Street. That delivery helped fuel a fresh $700M raise, pushing the company's valuation to $21B, up from $10.3B in July, just weeks after emerging from stealth in late June. Going from stealth to a working customer deployment to a doubled valuation inside two months is an unusually fast trajectory even by current AI-hardware standards. Read more.
3 OpenAI rolled out a safer version of ChatGPT for teenagers, adding parental controls and a mode that teaches concepts instead of just answering questions.
ChatGPT for Teens adds stronger built-in safety protections, parental controls, and time constraints. It also introduces Study Mode, which walks teens through new concepts rather than just handing them the finished answer. The launch lands as OpenAI faces multiple lawsuits alleging ChatGPT exposed children to harmful content, which makes the timing of this release as notable as the feature set itself.
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FROM THE FRONTIER
AI is translating some of humanity's earliest voices.
How's your Ancient Sumerian? AI has a new use case: translating ancient languages, specifically 5,000-year-old cuneiform writing, the wedge-shaped script found on clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamian civilizations in modern-day Iraq and Syria. TabletCraft, launched this year, is one of many examples. It is an AI model trained on 116,000 Akkadian-English translation pairs, capable of translating in both directions and even rendering results back into cuneiform's original symbolic text. AI shortens the process dramatically, though it still requires human oversight to confirm accuracy.
Unraveling mysteries of the past, literally. Scorched by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD, Italy's ancient Herculaneum scrolls have been written off as unreadable for nearly two millennia. Progress stayed frozen for centuries, until University of Kentucky researchers found a way to virtually unwrap the scrolls using AI combined with advanced imaging, without physically touching the carbonized material at all.
What they actually found. The digital unwrapping revealed five feet of continuous text, enough for researchers to read the scrolls as complete arguments rather than disconnected fragments. That volume of recovered text is expected to surface authors, ideas, and arguments "previously unknown" to history, opening a genuinely new era for studying the ancient world. Read the full story.
The part of the AI story that gets less airtime. Most conversations about AI focus on where the technology is taking humanity next. Cuneiform translation and scroll unwrapping point the same tool in the opposite direction entirely: recovering text and arguments that have been sitting unreadable for thousands of years, not because the ideas were lost, but because no one had a way to access them. The same pattern-recognition capability driving chatbots and coding agents turns out to be just as useful for listening to voices that fell silent millennia ago.
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What people are actually watching and sharing
🤖 High praise. Content creator Peter Yang says Grok Bot is the future of agents, a sentiment echoed widely across the internet. He outlined five effective use cases in a detailed tutorial that pulled 10,000 views on its first day, prompts included.
🎧 Sneak peek. Apple's new AirPods let you save anything you see. In classic Apple fashion, the demo leaves you wondering, "How the heck does that work?" Watch the leaked video that pulled 4M views.
🤔 New commercial. Mail your pee to an AI data center. That is the message behind a viral commercial from Liquid Death and Garage Beer, complete with its own custom song. Watch it here (3M views).
🤝 Claude gets Gmail. Claude now connects with Gmail and Google Drive, letting you edit emails or files directly from your chat threads. (3,000 likes)
🖨 Custom printing. AI just did the impossible: it made a printer actually work. Learn how an AI hobbyist used Claude to make a Windows-only HP printer compatible with Mac, or try out the final product here (2M views).
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