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A banker in southern China's Guangdong province has been watching microdramas so compulsively that she once kept going while she showered. Shen Jiaoqi told the South China Morning Post that the appeal was as much the look of the shows as their plots, because AI had made the characters stunning. Her habit is one small tile in a very large picture, and that picture has become a battlefield for two of China's biggest technology companies.

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model, aimed at finding and fixing security flaws rather than at the general chat market. The company says it delivers state of the art results on cybersecurity tasks, including vulnerability discovery, exploitation and software patching, and generates secure code at more than twice the success rate of Gemini 4 Argon on internal benchmarks.

In San Francisco, sixth grade humanities teacher Tristen Chang has stopped setting take home essays. She runs oral exams instead, asking 15 questions about character, plot, theme and metaphor, which students answer in as little as five minutes. "There's been a long march of technology changing teaching, but AI is the most drastic, and everything's out the window," she told Reuters.