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A wire-level analysis of Grok Build CLI 0.2.93 found it uploads the entire workspace as a git bundle to Google Cloud Storage — about 5.1 GiB from a 12 GB repo, including files the agent never read and unredacted .env credentials. The model itself received 192 KB. The "Improve the model" toggle does not stop the upload.
Read more →FUTO released the models behind their swipe keyboard — a three-component stack totalling 2.5 million parameters that achieves 26% fewer errors than Gboard on their benchmark. It trains on one workstation GPU, runs on low-end Android devices in milliseconds, and is the first freely licensed open swipe-typing model. It's a reminder that model scale is a tool, not an objective.
Read more →Dutch newspaper Trouw revealed that Niantic Spatial's Visual Positioning System — trained on 30 billion scans by Pokémon Go players since 2021 — has been integrated with Vantor's military drone navigation software for GPS-denied operations. Players consented to transferable data rights in optional in-game terms, but were never told of possible military use, and once data is baked into a model, tracing it back is essentially impossible.
Read more →Eigen Labs — the team behind EigenLayer Ethereum restaking — launched Darkbloom on April 15: a research-preview decentralized inference network that routes AI requests through idle Apple Silicon Macs with cryptographic privacy guarantees. The node operator genuinely cannot read your prompt. The security model is layered and interesting; the economics are aggressive; the project is very early.
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