What Jordy Meow has been doing with AI is way cool. His AI Engine plugin is very advanced. I’ve been trying the AI chat plugins that developers put on their sites for support. His, Nyao, is very thorough and gave me information way beyond what’s in the docs. Now he has added free Android and iOS apps to use the AI features from your phone.

I can’t help but think this article is aspirational and not aligned with reality, but it suggests the direction in the age of AI.

Konstantin Ryabitsev from the Linux Kernel team reports on their fight with AI bots. The current situation doesn’t seem sustainable.

It asks US policy makers not to put restrictions on open weight AI models.

In this tutorial Paul Charlton walks-through the steps for enabling and configuring the new Bricks AI connection current in beta.

Roger Montti dug in with some research to try and understand how Claude’s watermark might work by looking at academic papers and related materials. My take-away is that it is not hidden images, text, or such, but rather the patterns and use of letters, words, and phrases somehow being a reflection of AI token usage. Hmm, “token usage” maybe being related to how AI selects words to use? In any event, it seems that it can largely survive editing and summation.

One of the issues I often see raised is the problem of design when using AI to create sites. The Novamira team decided to do something about it. It will be interesting to see how this helps.

A few weeks ago a proposal was floated to merge into core a new Knowledge post type which would primarily be a feature for AI use. Community sentiment was not to bloat core with the feature. It seems Matt agreed and it won’t be included in 7.1. Here is The Repository’s reporting with the details.

The new beta has a lot of new features, enhancements, and quality of life improvements. Some highlights are AI in the builder, a unified manager for templates and components, export and import of the full design system, customize and save builder layouts, better WooCommerce support and version 2 elements, custom CSS and style controls sync, palate colors synced to Gutenberg, and much more. Check in the change log to find videos for some of these features (like AI).