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🖱️ Cloudflare's new tool watches your mouse to catch bots
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- Cloudflare has launched Precursor, a bot detection system that replaces annoying CAPTCHA puzzles by continuously watching how visitors move their mouse, type, scroll, and interact with a page throughout an entire browsing session.
- The system studies signals like mouse movement, scrolling rhythm, typing cadence, clipboard activity, and page visibility, but Cloudflare says it does not record the actual keys pressed, only the timing and rhythm.
- Website operators enable Precursor from the Cloudflare dashboard, which injects a JavaScript bundle that collects interaction signals and sends them for analysis, affecting bot scores and challenge decisions as suspicious behavior follows the session.
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💻 Meta's new coding AI undercuts rivals by 75 percent
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- Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on Thursday, a multimodal AI model built for agentic coding that takes on rivals from OpenAI and Anthropic while promising much lower costs to win over users.
- The model handles multistep reasoning, manages digital workflows, fixes bugs, and assists with large code migrations, and Meta will charge $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens.
- CEO Mark Zuckerberg marked the launch by posting on X for the first time in three years, calling Spark "a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price" and promising "more to come soon."
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🤖 OpenAI's GPT-5.6 trained its own smaller model
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- OpenAI says its new flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, post-trained the smaller model Luna on its own, optimizing it for specific skills and behaviors after Luna's initial pre-training with only an under-specified prompt from a researcher.
- Through the Codex platform, Sol was told to find the right training configurations, pick suitable GPUs, launch the training script, and check everything was running, work that senior researchers previously handled as a team.
- GPT-5.6 Sol scores 16.2 points higher than GPT-5.5 on OpenAI's aggregated RSI index, and researchers using it saw average daily token output per person more than double the previous peak set by GPT-5.5.
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🪞 Anthropic's new Claude Reflect shows exactly how you use AI
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- Anthropic added a built-in browser to Claude Code that lets the AI read, click, and type on external websites, letting the coding agent interact with web apps and documentation from start to finish inside one app.
- The browser runs inside Claude Code's existing workflow, so the agent can fetch live documentation, test web UIs, and fill forms without leaving the coding session, using the same tools it already uses to preview local apps.
- This is part of a broader push, alongside Claude Cowork expanding to mobile and web, to make Claude an agent that acts on the real world through clicks and typing, not just a chat assistant.
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