When AI Gets Confused About Who It Is

A researcher used Claude to port a small but capable image-inpainting model so it runs entirely inside a web browser, no server required. That matters to you because it hints at a near future where powerful image-editing tools live in a plain webpage, with no subscription, no upload, and no company holding your photos.

TLDR AI flags orchestration models, a wave of departures from DeepMind, and new thinking on how AI agents loop through tasks. The DeepMind exits are worth a second look because talent moving out of a lab often signals either frustration with direction or the quiet start of something new.

Import AI's latest issue asks how close beliefs about the singularity are to religious faith, which is a sharper question than it sounds. If the people building these systems hold unfalsifiable convictions about where it all leads, that shapes the decisions they make today, and those decisions affect products you will use.