OpenAI Wants Your Brain, Claude Wants Your Files, and Rust-Powered "Slop"

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Burn 0.20: High-Performance Rust Slop Burn 0.20 has arrived as a high-performance framework for those who think Python is too mainstream. This update brings fast tensor operations to both CPUs and GPUs with an MIT license. It’s a memory-safe alternative for production deep learning where you need speed and safety, though it won't save you from the actual AI output.

Claude Cowork: Anthropic Moves Into Your House Anthropic is shifting from chatbots to "colleagues" with Claude Cowork. This agent is designed to handle local file management and environment-level computing tasks directly on your OS. It’s essentially a functional extension of your computer that actually understands your local file structure—for better or worse.

Merge Labs: Sam Altman’s Final Frontier OpenAI just led a $252 million seed round for Merge Labs, a startup building ultrasound brain-computer interfaces. Unlike invasive electrodes, they want to use ultrasound to read from and write to the human brain. The goal is to merge human cognition with synthetic intelligence, because humans weren't doing a great job on their own.

Local Desktop: For the Extreme Masochists Android power users can now run a full rootless Arch Linux environment on their phones. It features a one-tap installation that supports full development tools and desktop software. It’s perfect for "vibe coders" who want to turn their smartphone into a Linux workstation for field testing.

Thames: Real Drivers for Real Boards Developer Tomeu Vizoso has released "Thames," a driver providing mainline Linux support for reverse-engineered Rockchip NPUs. By ditching proprietary vendor blobs, edge computing enthusiasts can finally use the full power of specialized AI hardware on open hardware.

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