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    OpenAI mothballed plans to spin out hardware and robotics divisions.

    Sam Altman considered a similar structure to Google’s Alphabet, which separates its core search business from ventures like Verily (health) and Waymo (self-driving cars), The Wall Street Journal reports. OpenAI has been cutting back on side quests ahead of a potential IPO and could revive spinout plans later on, the report says.

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    OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 has a date.

    Mark your calendars for September 29th. Last year the company used the event to launch “apps” inside ChatGPT.

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    Friendly chatbots make more mistakes.

    That’s the finding of a new study from researchers at the University of Oxford, published in Nature today. The researchers found AI chatbots trained to be warmer were significantly more likely to make factual errors and agree with false beliefs than the originals. Cold models didn’t experience the same drop in accuracy.

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    A Japanese toilet maker is flush with AI cash.

    Toto’s high-precision ceramics business is set to account for more than half of the company’s operating profit for the first time in the financial year that ended in March. Advanced ceramics, it turns out, are well suited for producing components for semiconductor manufacturing equipment — and demand is booming.

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    China blocks Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI agent startup Manus.

    The economic watchdog did not explain its decision to cancel the deal, which Beijing had scrutinized since it was first announced in December. It was largely complete and Manus is already integrated into some of Meta’s tools.