Vol. I · No. 19FRI, MAY 8, 2026
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Taylor Swift deepfakes are pushing scams on TikTok

Scammers are using AI-generated videos of celebrities including Taylor Swift and Rihanna to promote shady services on TikTok, according to authentication company Copyleaks. The ads typically show celebrities in interview settings, such as red carpets, podcasts, or talk shows, and often manipulate real footage with AI, the company said. Many promote rewards programs claiming users can earn money by watching TikTok content and giving feedback. TikTok's official branding appears in some of the ads, though users are redirected to third-party services that ask for personal information. In one ad, ...

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I tested Claude + Blender MCP for real 3D workflows and here's the honest result

Saw a lot of hype around Blender MCP this week so I decided to actually test it with two real workflows instead of just reading about it. **Test 1: Build a scene from scratch** Typed one sentence describing a cyberpunk room. Claude handled the geometry, lighting, camera and render settings. Never touched a menu. Not everything in the prompt landed perfectly and this was a simple scenario — results will vary with anything more complex. But for basic setup work it was fast. **Test 2: Clean up a photogrammetry scan** Threw a raw KIRI Engine photogrammetry scan at it. Massey Ferguson tracto...

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Qwen Introduced FlashQLA

Qwen releases FlashQLA, linear attention kernels delivering 2–3× forward and 2× backward speedup for on-device agentic inference via TileLang optimization.

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my claude prompts are embarrassingly short now

Reddit user reports that shorter, focused system prompts outperform long instruction blocks with Claude, challenging conventional multi-thousand-word prompt engineering.

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China freezes new robotaxi licenses after Baidu chaos

A Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi in Wuhan, China. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images China has suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The move comes after dozens of robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu ground to a halt in traffic last month in Wuhan, creating chaos. The restrictions will prevent companies from adding new driverless cars to their fleets, expanding into new cities, or starting new test projects. It is unclear when officials will start issuing new licenses again. Bloomberg said the Wuhan incident al...

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