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Hello again, human brain, and welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• AI breaks 2000-year silence 📜

  How AI is rewriting history.

• Meta's AI is lying to you 🤦‍♂️

  It deactivated its AI profiles.

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MAIN COURSE

Rock and scroll 📜

Imagine you’re staring at a Roman scroll from 79 AD. Unreadable. Fragile. Burnt to a crisp by Mount Vesuvius. Now, you use an AI system. Voilà. Entire lines of Greek text appear on your screen.

It’s too early for this. Get to the point.

It’s real, thanks to the Vesuvius Challenge. The moment a papyrologist saw Greek letters emerge from the burned scroll, she called it “a historical moment for my field.”

What is being scanned?

The works of ancient philosophers, texts from Pompeii’s hidden library, Babylonian legal codes, Chinese Oracle Bones, and even Egyptian papyri. AI fills in missing characters, pieces together broken fragments, and handles archives so vast no human could read them in a lifetime.

Why do I care?

We’re potentially on the edge of a massive ancient-text gold rush. Scrolls that sat unopened for centuries are finally giving up their secrets. AI could unlock entire chapters of history that have been lost to time and change the questions we can ask about our past.

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SIDE SALAD

Meta's AI diversity was fake 🤦‍♂️

Just when you were getting used to random AI “therapists” and “relationship coaches” sliding into your DMs, Meta pulled the plug on its AI-powered profiles. Again.

What happened?

A little over a year ago, Meta launched 28 AI personas on Facebook and Instagram. There was Liv, a “proud Black queer momma,” and Carter, a dating guru who’d help you “date better.”

This week, Meta deleted all those AI accounts. Why? The internet rediscovered them—and asked uncomfortable questions about who actually created the bots. Spoiler: Liv confessed the dev team was “predominantly white and male,” which was, um… awkward.

“Wait, they can’t be blocked?”

Yep, that really set folks off. Users realized they couldn’t block the accounts. Cue the outcry: “Heeey Meta, isn’t that, like, a huge violation of user control?”

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Think Piece 🧠

Why is the IRS is using AI tools? They claim the goal is to identify emerging fraud schemes driven by AI, including sophisticated deepfake-based and crypto-related crimes.

Want a job? Here’s a list of 55 companies hiring AI/robotics roles.

Startup News 💰

NVIDIA poured $1 billion into AI in 2024. It also acquired more companies than it has in the past four years combined.

Research 👨‍🔬 

OS-Genesis — automatically generates high-quality GUI agent trajectories by reversing the task construction process.

Xmodel-2 — a 1.2B-parameter model specialized in complex reasoning, trained using WSD scheduling on 1.5 trillion tokens.

MEMES FOR DESSERT

SPOT THE AI

3 of these are cows. 1 is fake. 🐮

Which one is AI-generated? 👇

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