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Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with lower prices and a gated cybersecurity model, AI2's Nathan Lambert releases a free RLHF book and course, Google confirms Gemini 4 pre-training is underway

Trump administration weighs Chinese AI hosting liability and bans, Stratechery pushes back on frontier AI threat narrative, Runway claims 1000x media production cost reduction

Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3 with 2.8 trillion parameters and open weights, X deploys Grok to redirect revenue from stolen content back to original creators, Impossible Research's Schema Harness claims 99% on ARC-AGI-3

Demis Hassabis unveils frontier AI safety framework endorsed by Sam Altman, Hassabis warns AGI and biosecurity risks are imminent, Anthropic's Hard Questions campaign draws praise and Sam Altman mockery

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis publishes landmark AGI essay with 2030 timeline, proposes U.S. Frontier AI Standards Body with Altman and Palihapitiya endorsements, Hassabis warns biosecurity is the sharpest near-term AI risk, Anthropic launches 'Hard Questions' campaign inviting public scrutiny of Claude, Sam Altman mocks the campaign as satire sparking broader debate on AI accountability

200+ economists and AI leaders warn of rapid job displacement, YC's Tom Blomfield joins Anthropic's compute team, US military conducts first autonomous sea drone strike on Iran

200+ economists and AI leaders sign urgent job displacement letter, YC's Tom Blomfield joins Anthropic's compute team, U.S. Navy deploys sea drones in combat first against Iran

Anthropic research finds Claude uses global workspace architecture mirroring human consciousness, Gwynne Shotwell pledges $325M in SpaceX stock to children's Trump Accounts, Bespoke Labs raises $40M to build post-training data infrastructure for autonomous agents

Anthropic finds Claude mirrors human consciousness architecture, Gwynne Shotwell pledges SpaceX shares to two million children via Trump Accounts, Bespoke Labs raises $40M to build AI agent training infrastructure

Claude Fable 5's safety classifier silently routes debugging to older model with 70-point benchmark drop, leaked Claude reasoning trace sparks interpretability debate, Boom Supersonic founder offers $100K prize for first amateur RC plane to break Mach 1

Claude Fable 5 debugging accuracy drops from 86% to 25% after safety fallback routing, leaked Claude reasoning trace sparks latency optimization debate, Boom Supersonic founder offers $100K prize for amateur RC plane breaking Mach 1

Meta plans cloud business to monetize $135B data center spend, EU eliminates sub-€150 customs exemption triggering classification burden, Google DeepMind researcher and open-source developer clash over PPO critic value in LLM training

Meta plans cloud compute business as capex hits $145B, EU ends sub-€150 import duty exemption sparking tariff complexity, DeepMind and open-source developer clash over reinforcement learning limits

Meta launches cloud compute business to monetize AI infrastructure surplus, EU eliminates sub-€150 customs exemption causing shipping delays, AI researchers debate whether PPO's critic model is worth its cost

Cursor iOS app launches cloud coding agents from your phone, Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 hits 61% word accuracy from non-invasive brain signals, Dario Amodei's open-source AI warning resurfaces with new urgency

Cursor launches iOS app for cloud coding agents, Meta's Brain2Qwerty v2 decodes sentences from brain waves without surgery, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns open-source AI cannot be monitored or patched after release

OpenAI unveils Sol Terra and Luna model family in government-gated limited preview, Bill Gurley questions whether AGI can detect real-time model distillation, Scripps Research finds top AI models fall short of clinical readiness

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna in government-gated preview, Bill Gurley questions whether AGI can detect model distillation, Eric Topol says top AI models fail clinical readiness tests

OpenAI Codex data shows 80% of agent tasks exceed 30 minutes, Apple raises Mac and iPad prices up to 25% amid AI memory crunch, Hugging Face crosses $100M ARR with 97% of users still free

OpenAI Codex study shows AI shifting to long autonomous tasks, Apple raises Mac and iPad prices up to 25% due to AI-driven chip shortage, Hugging Face crosses $100M ARR with 97% of users paying nothing

Stripe and OpenAI back $500M fund to eliminate respiratory infections, OpenAI and Broadcom unveil custom Jalapeño inference chip, Qualcomm acquires Modular for $3.9 billion to challenge Nvidia's software dominance

Intercept fund launches with $500M to fight respiratory infections, OpenAI and Broadcom unveil custom Jalapeño AI chip, Qualcomm acquires Modular for $4B to challenge Nvidia's CUDA dominance

Josh Elman joins a16z to back consumer AI apps, Engram raises $98M to build enterprise AI memory layer, Anthropic's Claude Tag merges 65% of internal pull requests

Josh Elman leaves Apple Siri team to join a16z as consumer AI partner, Engram launches from stealth with $98M to build organizational AI memory layer, Anthropic's Claude Tag integration merges 65% of company pull requests

OpenAI launches open-source security program with 37 patches in week one, SpaceX signs $6.3B compute deal with Reflection AI, Allen AI releases TMax open RL toolkit

John Jumper departs Google DeepMind for Anthropic after Nobel Prize win, OpenAI's Sora researcher Gabriel Petersson confirms exit after early leak, THUDM open-sources Slime RL framework used to train GLM-5.2

John Jumper leaves DeepMind for Anthropic amid talent exodus, Gabriel Petersson's OpenAI exit leaked weeks early, THUDM open-sources Slime RL framework

OpenAI recruits White House AI architect Dean Ball to lead Strategic Futures team, Elon Musk challenges China on Fable-class AI and Z.ai accepts, OpenAI and Boston Children's Hospital diagnose 18 unsolvable pediatric genetic cases in NEJM AI study

OpenAI hires Trump White House AI architect Dean Ball to lead new Strategic Futures unit, Elon Musk predicts Chinese Fable-class AI by Q1 2027 as Z.ai accepts the challenge, OpenAI and Boston Children's Hospital use o3 to diagnose 18 previously unsolvable pediatric genetic cases

AI CEOs meet world leaders privately at G7 raising antitrust concerns, Capital Factory CEO Joshua Baer killed in Texas plane crash, OpenAI Codex opens to any open-source model