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“…this is the first AI film to demonstrate that AI can now sustain character consistency, world coherence, and narrative arc across a complete feature,” is roughly equivalent to “we made a car that actually has wheels and can take you somewhere.”
And it wasn’t in the festival, it just screening in the same town.
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1st quote source:

First AI-made Feature Film Premieres at Cannes on Higgsfield | Alex Mashrabov posted on the topic | LinkedIn
We just showcased the trailer of our first 95-minute feature film made entirely on Higgsfield in Cannes. Hell Grind is a 95-minute sci-fi heist directed by Aitore Zholdaskali and co-written with Adilkhan Yerzhanov, a two-time Cannes Official Programme filmmaker. A team of 15 professional directors, DPs, and editors made it on Higgsfield in 14 days for under $500K. The traditional comparable production cost is around $50M. But beyond the numbers, this is the first AI film to demonstrate that …

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

Comcast drops the NFL Network from its Xfinity package after the prior agreement expired, and says it's in negotiations with the channel's new owner, Disney (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-loses-the-nfl-network-over-co…

Comcast Loses The NFL Network As Its Contract Ends As Talks Happen With It New Owner, ESPN | Cord Cutters News
In a development that echoes past carriage battles, Comcast’s Xfinity cable and television service has dropped the NFL Network from its lineup, leaving millions of subscribers without access to the league’s dedicated 24-hour channel. The blackout, which began late Thursday night following the expiration of prior distribution agreements, comes just months after ESPN officially completed […]

Insane commando plan to seize Iran’s uranium came at Trump’s request
The U.S. military has given the president a plan to seize nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium in Iran
that would involve flying in excavation equipment and building a runway for cargo planes to take the radioactive material out,
according to two people familiar with the matter.

The complex plan was briefed to the president in the past week after he asked for a proposal, they said,

Risky commando plan to seize Iran’s uranium came at Trump’s request
A plan briefed to Trump last week to insert ground forces to remove Iran’s nuclear material would be a very difficult endeavor of a type never before attempted in wartime.

from my link log —
Your Rust clippy config should be stricter.
https://emschwartz.me/your-clippy-config-should-be-stricter/
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Your Clippy Config Should Be Stricter
“If it compiles, it works.” This feeling is one of the main things Rust engineers love most about Rust, and a reason why using it with coding agents is espec...

So the Canadian government is cracking down on anti-semitism (CBC: #israel #palestine #canada #cdnpoli #canpoli

If nobody’s talking about what you wish everyone were talking about, be brave. Speak up.
Right before the session deadline, I looked at the schedule and thought, “Nothing about ICE?? Really?! After all we’ve been through in MSP!” Feeling a little desperate, I created this session:
https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/2108
I quickly got a DM from the inimitable Eryn O’Neil, who’d been thinking exactly the same and was halfway through writing up a session when she saw mine come in. We quickly determined our two ideas were complementary, so she created hers:
https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/2126
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Seven families of victims in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada sue OpenAI, accusing it of failing to warn authorities about the suspect's ChatGPT activity (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/tech/openai-tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-lawsuit…

Families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims sue OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman
Seven families of victims in a February school shooting sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday, alleging the company and its ChatGPT chatbot were complicit in the injuries or deaths of their children.

Arbitrary models of the complete first-order theories of FDZ-rings
Mahmood Sohrabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27730 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27730 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.27730
arXiv:2603.27730v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we study arbitrary models of the first-order theory of a ring $A$ where the additive group $A$ is a finitely generated abelian group. Following an earlier paper by this author, Alexei G. Myasnikov and Francis Oger, we call these rings the FDZ-rings or FDZ-algebras. The rings considered are not necessarily unitary, commutative, or associative. We provide criteria for such rings to be quasi finitely axiomatizable (QFA) or bi-interpretable with the ring of integers $\mathbb Z$. We shall also describe all rings elementarily equivalent to such a ring $A$ given certain constraints on $A$.
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