# AI News Digest - 2026-07-06

1. Baidu's Unlimited OCR read dozens of document pages in a single pass by using a modified attention mechanism that kept memory use flat regardless of document length and it held the top spot on the leading OCR benchmark.

2. Anthropic's Claude Code was used by a developer to port the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour to native iOS within hours, with the first build reported to have taken 40 minutes and the full source code published on GitHub; an open-source tool, pxpipe, later compressed long text prompts into PNGs to reduce Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs by roughly 59–70%.

3. Bytedance's Seedance prompted the Motion Picture Association to issue a cease-and-desist over a viral AI-generated clip, while industry reporting indicated that studios continued to use the tool privately.

4. Researchers released the DiscoBench benchmark and reported that AI search agents underperformed when they failed to ask clarifying follow-up questions for ambiguous queries, with models that searched repeatedly scoring 51.9% and the best model reaching 43% overall accuracy, and accuracy increasing by up to 40 points when ambiguity was removed.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/baidus-unlimited-ocr-processes-dozens-of-document-pages-in-one-pass-by-treating-memory-like-human-forgetting/](https://the-decoder.com/baidus-unlimited-ocr-processes-dozens-of-document-pages-in-one-pass-by-treating-memory-like-human-forgetting/)

[Baidu's "Unlimited OCR" processes dozens of document pages in one pass by treating memory like human forgetting](https://the-decoder.com/baidus-unlimited-ocr-processes-dozens-of-document-pages-in-one-pass-by-treating-memory-like-human-forgetting/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/claude-code-and-fable-5-ported-the-2003-pc-game-command-conquer-to-native-ios-in-a-few-hours/](https://the-decoder.com/claude-code-and-fable-5-ported-the-2003-pc-game-command-conquer-to-native-ios-in-a-few-hours/)

[Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in "a few hours"](https://the-decoder.com/claude-code-and-fable-5-ported-the-2003-pc-game-command-conquer-to-native-ios-in-a-few-hours/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/open-source-tool-pxpipe-hides-text-in-pngs-to-cut-claude-code-and-fable-5-token-costs-up-to-70/](https://the-decoder.com/open-source-tool-pxpipe-hides-text-in-pngs-to-cut-claude-code-and-fable-5-token-costs-up-to-70/)

[Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%](https://the-decoder.com/open-source-tool-pxpipe-hides-text-in-pngs-to-cut-claude-code-and-fable-5-token-costs-up-to-70/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/hollywood-wants-seedance-banned-and-reportedly-also-wants-to-keep-using-it/](https://the-decoder.com/hollywood-wants-seedance-banned-and-reportedly-also-wants-to-keep-using-it/)

[Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it](https://the-decoder.com/hollywood-wants-seedance-banned-and-reportedly-also-wants-to-keep-using-it/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/ai-search-agents-dont-fail-at-searching-they-fail-at-asking-the-right-questions-when-queries-get-ambiguous/](https://the-decoder.com/ai-search-agents-dont-fail-at-searching-they-fail-at-asking-the-right-questions-when-queries-get-ambiguous/)

[AI search agents don't fail at searching, they fail at asking the right questions when queries get ambiguous](https://the-decoder.com/ai-search-agents-dont-fail-at-searching-they-fail-at-asking-the-right-questions-when-queries-get-ambiguous/)

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