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Today's topics:

UK media defence pundit conflicts - An AOAV report says UK outlets often quote retired senior officers as “independent” while omitting defence-industry ties—raising transparency and conflict-of-interest concerns in defence coverage.

On-device multimodal AI with Gemma - Google DeepMind’s Gemma 4 12B targets local, on-device multimodal agents with an Apache 2.0 release, lowering privacy and cost barriers for laptop AI workflows.

Rendering huge scenes with Gaussians - A SIGGRAPH 2026 paper introduces stochastic “Gaussian point splatting” to render hundreds of millions of Gaussians in real time, changing the scale of what GPU rendering can handle.

AI ethics and model personhood - A short story argues modern AI has no explicit rules—just weights—then asks whether persistent memory and human attachment will force harder conversations about moral consideration.

Berkeley grades, cheating, and LLMs - UC Berkeley saw unusually high D/F rates in key CS/EECS classes, with instructors citing academic dishonesty, overreliance on LLMs, weaker math prep, and reduced TA support.

Elixir gets inference-based typing - Elixir 1.20 ships a major milestone: the compiler can infer and check types in existing code with minimal false positives, aiming to flag “verified bugs” before runtime crashes.

Coordinating coding agents via Git - A new “Agent Radio” concept uses Git as an append-only message log so multiple coding agents can share context and leave an auditable trail alongside code review workflows.

San Francisco Bay physical modeling - The Army Corps’ Bay Model—a working scale model of San Francisco Bay and the Delta—shows how physical simulation shaped major water-engineering decisions and public understanding.

-Report: UK Media Often Fails to Disclose Defence Industry Ties of Retired Military Commentators
-SIGGRAPH 2026 Paper Proposes Real-Time Rendering of Hundreds of Millions of Gaussian Splats
-Fictional Dialogue Explores the Unsettling Idea That AI Is "Made Out of Weights"
-Failing Rates Spike in UC Berkeley CS Classes as Professors Cite AI Cheating and Weaker Math Preparation
-Army Corps Bay Model Helped Test and Reject Bay-Damming Plans
-AccessOwl Seeks AI-Native Senior Type