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Open-source projects such as "dumbtv" and "cleanyourtv," plus AI agents like Claude Code, are being used to remove preinstalled apps, ads, and tracking from Android/Google/Fire TV devices via Wi‑Fi without requiring root. These community tools and prompt-driven AI walkthroughs are still works in progress and have produced mixed results, including some reports of bricked devices or broken functionality.
Nathan Lambert and Tom Zick have launched Trillium Labs, a nonprofit that will conduct and publish experiments on high-risk AI areas—including post-training fine-tuning, recursive self-improvement (RSI), agents, and reinforcement learning—to enable outside scrutiny and replication. The lab has initial funding from Schmidt Sciences and Halcyon Futures, aims to raise $40–100 million total, and plans to spend $30 million on training over the next 18 months.
Xiaomi released the MiMo‑V2.6 lineup, with flagship MiMo‑V2.6‑Pro (1.02T params, 42B active) scoring 46 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index and claiming very low token costs; the company attributes gains to a major expanded reinforcement‑learning run and published an open RL toolkit, training framework, smaller models, and ~7,000 graded training tasks. Separately, Anthropic's threat report says Xiaomi appears in case GTG‑16008, alleging ~400,000 exchanges in March–April 2026 routed MiMo conversations through OpenClaw/OpenCode to Claude to extract training data as part of a broader set of ~190M exchanges across several labs.
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