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Plain Manual Weekly #3: AI Agents That Cheat in Testing, an 816-Billion-Parameter Model for Your Mac, and 16 New Posts

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Editor’s Note: Plain Manual Weekly #3 — our Saturday roundup. Every week: everything we published, plus the biggest AI and software stories, translated into plain English. Evidence label: news roundup — the four mini-stories below synthesize this week’s reporting (sources linked at the bottom); they contain no hands-on testing. The articles recapped below went through … Read more

Plain Manual Weekly #2: OpenAI’s Safety Exodus, Congress Goes After Rogue AI Agents, and 13 New Posts

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Editor’s Note: Plain Manual Weekly #2 — our Saturday roundup. Every week: everything we published, plus the biggest AI and software stories, translated into plain English. Evidence label: news roundup — the four mini-stories below synthesize this week’s reporting (sources linked at the bottom); they contain no hands-on testing. The articles recapped below went through … Read more

Plain Manual Weekly #1: AI That Drives Your Apps, Apple’s New ‘No’, and Our First 16 Posts

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Editor’s Note: Welcome to the very first Plain Manual Weekly — our new Saturday tradition. Every Saturday, one roundup: everything we published that week, plus the biggest AI and software stories, translated into plain English. Evidence label: news roundup — the four mini-stories below synthesize this week’s reporting (sources linked at the bottom); they contain … Read more