Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal:
Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong  —  AI descriptions, designed to give customers more detail than generic motion alerts, are mistaking brake lights for house fires and humans for bears

Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being  —  Cellphone bans got devices out of students' hands, according to the first large study.  But behavior and academics have not improved, at least so far.

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX  —  Rocket maker hopes to quell employee uproar after old options expired without a payout  —  Blue Origin has outlined a new stock plan for employees in an effort …

Max Zeff / @zeffmax:
Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025  —  NEW: Google quietly shut down Project Mariner yesterday, the web-browsing AI agent it highlighted onstage last year at Google IO. I reported for WIRED, nearly 2 months ago, that Google had moved staffers off the Project Mariner team as it responded to OpenClaw-style agents. [image]

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu:
Germany-based eleQtron, which develops trapped-ion quantum computing processors using proprietary tech, raised a €57M Series A led by Schwarz Digits  —  With new funding, eleQtron will scale its trapped ion quantum computing technology, expand access to its systems …