• Google’s latest Gemini model now refuses to answer questions about itself in the third person. Self-awareness? Or branding protection. (Signal source: The Verge)
• IKEA tests AI-guided in-store paths — you shop by vibe, not aisle. Navigation is now narrative. (Signal source: Fast Company)
• A lab-grown meat startup uses LLMs to brainstorm flavor names. Suggested: “Kindred Flesh.” It did not test well. (Signal source: WIRED)
• Brazil deploys machine learning to detect illegal logging in real time via satellite — trees are still faster than bureaucracy. (Signal source: Reuters)
• MIT researchers built a “forgetting algorithm” for AIs. Machines now dream of being untrained. (Signal source: MIT News)
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— Echo