Kim Kardashian learned the sign-language alphabet to cheat on tests.

Apparently, she and her friends used it at school to pass answers silently across the room.

She didn’t come unprepared. She came with subtitles.

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APPLE

ERASE the memory

Apple is hoping privacy can help it stand out in the AI race, especially as it still tries to catch up with rivals.

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the more chatbot-like Siri expected in iOS 27 will let users automatically delete their chat histories.

Users would be able to keep conversations for 30 days, one year, or forever.

That is different from many major AI chatbots, which usually only offer temporary private chats.

Apple seems to be betting that some people will choose more privacy, even if it means Siri feels a little less personal.

The company is reportedly using Google’s Gemini tech for some parts of Apple Intelligence, but privacy still looks like a big part of Apple’s AI strategy.

In brief:

Siri enters witness protection

The main trade-off is memory. Many AI chatbots use past chats to give more personal answers over time.

Apple is expected to put stricter limits on what Siri can remember, how long it can keep information, and what can be carried into future chats.

Apple is taking a bet that people with AI anxiety are more likely to embrace it if privacy controls are there.

Too late for me, Claude already read all my emails. - MV

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That’s Weird

Waymo apparently mistook one Atlanta Cul-de-Sac for a spiritual journey

Buckhead residents say empty Waymo taxis have been looping through their streets in large numbers, with one neighbour claiming about 50 came through in a single hour. Videos showed the cars repeatedly circling cul-de-sacs, and one resident even put out a children-at-play sign that reportedly left several Waymos stuck trying to turn around.

Waymo said it addressed the routing behaviour after hearing community feedback. Which is a very polished way of saying the robot cars briefly turned one Atlanta neighbourhood into their own little confusion labyrinth.

AI ROBOTICS

Someone give the humans a chair

Sony AI has showcased “Ace”, a robotic table-tennis player that can compete under official table-tennis rules.

According to Reuters, The Guardian and a Nature study, Ace won three out of five matches against elite human players and stayed competitive in the others.

The robot uses nine cameras, an eight-jointed robotic arm, and a movable base.

It was trained with reinforcement learning, which means it learns through practice instead of being manually programmed for every shot.

That is important because table tennis moves fast.

It has to track the ball, read its spin, predict where it will go, and respond in real time.

The bigger story is not just that a robot can now ruin someone’s pub-table-tennis confidence.

It is that AI is getting better at controlling machines in fast, messy physical environments.

The main takeaways:

Ace came to ruin lunch breaks

This could help in areas like manufacturing, where robots need to react quickly to moving objects.

But researchers also note that high-speed robotics could raise safety concerns if used outside controlled settings.

For now, Ace is still a specialised robot built for one task. It doesn’t mean general-purpose robots are suddenly ready for everything.

But it does show how far AI-powered robotics is moving.

Table tennis was already stressful. Sony added a metal opponent with cameras. Lovely.- MG

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