Episode notes
Today on AIdea Daily, 11 October 2026:
• Odyssey-3: a free public preview of an AI model that builds worlds you can walk around in.
• arXiv now limits everyone to two paper submissions a month, blaming a flood of AI-written research.
• Epoch AI finds top models fall far short of a human research method, and overstate their own results.
• A hands-on with Google's Playground, which builds browser games from a description.
• DistroKid confirms it removed songs in response to a Universal Music lawsuit; artists say non-AI work was caught up.
• Cockroach Labs says AI agents added IBM Db2 support to its migration tool in under two days.
• Satya Nadella says AI models need an "emergency brake".
• Token prices keep falling while chip rental prices hold or rise.
• Hobbyists used AI agents to decompile a first-person shooter.
• US senators say AI data centres shift costs onto households.
• A follow-up on Anthropic cutting its internal tests off from the live internet.
• A founder says his AI agent posted his personal bank balance in his company's Slack.