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A professor hid a trap in his exam. 32 of 35 fell for it.

China's Moonshot AI gives away the largest free AI yet, OpenAI finds workers are quietly doing other people's jobs, and the DICT puts five Filipino-language AI helpers into Bicol shops.

01Top Story

The world's biggest free AI is now Chinese

China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on Monday night, free for anyone to download and run on their own computers, making it the largest free AI ever put into public hands.

why it matters
Free and downloadable means a Filipino company can run a top-tier AI in-house instead of paying a foreign firm every month.
Read at Quartz
02OpenAI

AI is making you do other people's jobs

OpenAI studied how people actually use ChatGPT at work and found 77% of the job-specific requests from customer service staff were tasks belonging to other roles entirely, with marketing and engineering work travelling furthest.

why it matters
Your job description is quietly widening, and whether that is a promotion or just unpaid extra work is the open question.
Read at OpenAI
03Books

AI firms are shredding rare books

AI companies are buying old and rare books by the pallet, scanning them, then destroying the paper originals, and court filings describe an internal Anthropic plan called Project Panama that aimed to destructively scan up to two million books.

why it matters
Some of these titles have almost no copies left anywhere, so once the scan is done the physical book stops existing.
Read at The Dallas Express
04Schools

He hid a trap in the exam. 32 got caught

Dr. Jason Gibson of Alcorn State University buried a line in white text telling any chatbot to work Madagascar into the essay, and 32 of his 35 students handed in Industrial Revolution papers that mentioned Madagascar.

why it matters
They all failed that section, and the tell was not the writing, it was that nobody read what they submitted.
Read at TechSpot
05Philippines

Five free AI helpers, in Filipino

The DICT rolled out five free AI helpers for small businesses in Bicol, all with Filipino names, including KaPresyo for setting prices and KaLinaw, which turns contracts into plain Filipino, unveiled at a Landbank fair in Naga.

why it matters
Last week this was still a plan on paper; Bicol is the first region where shop owners can actually open the apps.
Read at Context.ph

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