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Today's topics:

Midjourney pivots into medical imaging - Midjourney announced “Midjourney Medical,” aiming for rapid full-body 3D ultrasound that looks MRI-like—raising big questions about consumer-grade screening and FDA pathways.

AI deskilling and patient-led analytics - New studies and essays highlight AI “deskilling” risks in medicine and software, while some patients use LLMs to spot patterns in symptoms—putting human expertise and oversight front and center.

Norway restricts generative AI in schools - Norway will largely ban generative AI for ages 6–13, allow limited supervised use for 14–16, and teach responsible use for 17–19—signaling a European reset toward core skills.

Alignment training that generalizes - OpenAI researchers report trait-focused reinforcement learning can improve honesty, humility, and safety behaviors across many benchmarks, suggesting more durable alignment than “prompt-only” fixes.

Preventing enterprise data leaks via agents - Hugging Face’s MosaicLeaks benchmark shows deep-research agents can leak sensitive info through web-search queries; RL with privacy penalties reduced leakage without tanking task success.

DeepMind agent security as insider threat - Google DeepMind’s “AI Control Roadmap” treats powerful agents like potential insider threats, combining cybersecurity controls with real-time monitoring and capability-triggered safeguards.

Perplexity adds action-based agent memory - Perplexity introduced “Brain,” a memory layer that mainly remembers what an agent did, what failed, and what got corrected—improving correctness while cutting repeated work and cost.

Shopify pushes commerce beyond storefronts - Shopify previewed prototype apps to show how its Catalog API and Universal Commerce Protocol could make product discovery and checkout work across the web with standardized inventory data.

AI industry politics, costs, and talent - Yann LeCun criticized xAI’s competitiveness and warned of an AI bubble, while DeepSeek reportedly sought no-poaching terms—underscoring how economics and talent wars shape the frontier.

Possible Linear A decipherment claim - A self-taught researcher claims to have deciphered Linear A; if validated by scholars, it could rewrite parts of Bronze Age language history, but the claim is still under review.

-Shopify demos five AI-native shopping apps built on Catalog API and UCP
-Norway moves to restrict generative AI use in schools, banning it for most elementary pupils
-Midjourney Announces 60-Second Full-Body Ultrasound S