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PLUS: First robot that can actually do your laundry...

Welcome, humans.

Finally, there's a robot that can actually handle that mountain of laundry sitting in your hamper:

Physical Intelligence (PI) just unveiled π0 (pi-zero), a generalist robot model that can unload a dryer, carry clothes to a table, and fold them into a neat stack—without humans.

What makes this special isn't just the folding—it's that π0 can recover when things go wrong, like if your cat decides fresh laundry makes the perfect nap spot mid-fold.

That's because PI trained their model on the largest robot dataset ever, using 8 different robots doing all kinds of tasks.

There’s so many awesome videos of these bots in action, you gotta check them out. Watching π0 ace filling up an egg carton without cracking any eggs is money.

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

We share when (and when not) to prompt.
Court throws out publishers' OpenAI copyright suit.
FrontierMath tests AI models with expert-level math problems.
GenAI writing found in thousands of fake science papers.

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When AI needs the perfect prompt (and when it doesn’t)

Ever rephrase the same question to ChatGPT five different ways, hoping for a better answer? A new study just revealed when this helps—and when you're wasting your time.

The researchers used a framework called ProSA to test a wide range of models (from 7B to 72B parameters) across everything from basic questions to complex coding tasks.

Here’s what they found:

For knowledge-based questions, higher confidence in the subject matter correlated with more consistent answers across different prompts.
As AI models get bigger, they're getting better at understanding what we want—regardless of how we ask.
The research also found that adding just one example output dramatically improved consistency on benchmark tests.

Here are the tasks where AI models were most consistent, regardless of how you phrased the question:

Business solutions.
Expert technical guidance.
IT problem-solving.

And here's where prompting made the biggest difference:

Technical coding and data visualization.
Programming and scripting tasks.
Algorithmic problem-solving.

Here’s the takeaway: you can officially stop obsessing over prompt engineering for everyday questions with big models like GPT. Instead of memorizing prompt templates or magic phrases, you can focus on simply asking for what you want in plain language.

Save your energy for the tasks where precise prompting still matters, like creative work or specialized technical requests. If you're building AI products or tackling complex technical tasks, prompting still matters—a lot.

Pro tip: Gauge the AI's confidence on every subject matter. When models respond with high confidence, they're remarkably consistent regardless of how you phrase things. Lower confidence? That's your cue to try rephrasing.

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Around the Horn.

OpenAI scored a quick legal win when a judge threw out a copyright lawsuit against it from two publishers who couldn’t prove a “concrete injury.”
There's a new AI model benchmark called FrontierMath that’s filled with expert-level math problems that take specialists days to complete.
Science mags like Nature are raising the alarm now that GenAI can create ultra-realistic scientific data; for example, LLMs wrote about 7-17% of ~50K computer science articles published between 2023 and 2024.