Briefs

Morning briefs

Short items from today's intake that did not lead a full story, each with its source. Nothing here is a stitched article — every item stands on its own outlet.

Reported with AI assistance from public sources. Every item below names its outlet and links to it. An editor pass and fact-check ran on the edition's full stories before publication. — Align Newsroom, part of Creytix.

ai

Auditable Human-Agent Teams for Autonomous X-ray Experimentation — arXiv — cs.AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming? — Hacker News — Front Page

BotPsy: On-Device Personal Assistant with a Sub-Billion-Parameter Agentic Language Model — Hugging Face — Blog

[AINews] Mercor $750m Series D at $20B valuation, $3B run rate — Latent Space — Newsletter/Podcast

😸 3 AI labs shipped for you — The Neuron — Newsletter

rust-v0.169.0-alpha.11 — OpenAI Codex — Releases (watched repo)

Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI — OpenAI — News

Reddit Reviews — Product Hunt — Feed (AI launches surface here)

us-politics

Full story: Trump Foot Soldier statue mocks his Vietnam draft deferment

world

DR Congo: Tshisekedi signs new referendum law amid third-term fears — Africanews

"Sin su paso por Perú León XIV nunca hubiera llegado a ser Papa" — BBC Mundo

Egyptian journalist's retrial adjourned as UN warns of 'assaults on press freedom' — BBC News — World

French journalist Christophe Gleizes marks 500 days in Algerian prison, as loved ones urge presidential pardon — Euronews

Présidentielle 2027 : la candidature d’Eric Zemmour pose « un problème républicain », estime le président de SOS Racisme, Dominique Sopo — Le Monde

Prosecutors open the vault at Peña’s house and find it empty; two safes found at Ueno Bank — MercoPress

Singapore Airlines takes 44% profit hit in 1st half on soaring fuel costs — Nikkei Asia

US citizen, ‘Chinese blood’: top biologist caught in debate over returnees — South China Morning Post