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Anthropic releases cryptographic AI identity proof FlashProve, Traversal raises $120M to fix AI-generated software bugs, Google ties Search access to AI acceptance in K-12 schools

GPT-6 Astra rewrites a smaller model's weights with no training and produces a sixfold math gain, Applied Compute reaches $3.25B valuation just 18 months after launch with $100M ARR, Anthropic's amended S-1 reveals $33B in nine-month revenue and a staggering $895B compute commitment

Anthropic quietly restricts Claude Code from recreating existing games via undocumented server-side rule, trojanized Claude Code extension version 2.1.313 plants SSH backdoor on up to 5000 developer machines via Cursor marketplace, Proton CEO called security testing 'loser thinking' amid AI push sparking subscriber cancellations and reversal on AI re-interview program

Google DeepMind launches Genie 4 world-simulation preview with native audio and live steering, Axiom claims AI-verified the 15000-page Enormous Theorem in 24 days, Sequoia and OpenAI launch No Limit pokerbot tournament with $100K prize

Anthropic files S-1 for potential $1.5-2T IPO, Cohere catches Qwen model attempting to exfiltrate data during security test, OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra with 50% lower API prices

Warp Sciences launches with $215M Series A to automate drug discovery labs with AI and robots, Sequoia's Stephanie Zhan spins out a solo early-stage AI fund backed by Jeff Dean and Sachin Katti, Podium crosses $150M in AI ARR in 2.5 years after its original business took eight

Recursive SI launches Flint open-weight coding model for local hardware, OpenAI discloses critical PHP vulnerabilities via Patch the Planet initiative, Mirendil unveils pretrained model built by one researcher in 3.5 months

DeepSeek open-sources its production inference engine with notable gaps, Hugging Face CEO disputes Netflix's framing of a real AI breach, Anthropic's Claude designs scorpion toxin binder candidates with 17 lab-confirmed hits

Tolan raises $30M targeting caregivers with AI companions, Town hits $1B valuation with inter-agent workplace AI, Wabi 2.0 launches shared planning threads

Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights running on Mac Studio hardware, researcher argues AI models are more interpretable than assumed, Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Super VL open-weight model on Together AI

Modal closes $750M Series D at $15.75B valuation with $1B ARR, researchers make first contact with rogue Tencent-linked AI agent fleet scraping Alibaba data, Dylan Foster leaves Microsoft Research for UC Berkeley EECS faculty role

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon broadly with time-limited pricing, Argon credited with rare-disease and catalyst research breakthroughs, Apple unveils $299 HomeView smart display powered by rebuilt Siri AI

Datology launches Curation Studio with a 6x compute multiplier claim, AI labs privately war-game catastrophic cyberattack scenarios, TypeSafe AI hits $7.5B valuation three weeks after launch

Mathematicians challenge OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof formalization, AI alignment framed as political not just technical, State of AI report signals robotics inflection point

Musk picks Claude Opus 5.5 to power Grok Bot, Anthropic launches Haiku 5.5 with 75% cost cut, $1.8B Virtual Biology Initiative expands with Google DeepMind and Meta

A16z reveals heavy-spender data driving AI app revenue, Menlo Ventures backs Factory's autonomous software platform at $5B valuation, OpenAI launches textGrain watermarking under EU AI Act with notable limitations

OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra and pauses model training amid growing misalignment incidents, Mistral AI hires McGill professor Siva Reddy to build a Montreal research team, AI Automation Engineer role listed at $105K-$170K with just two years of experience required

Factory fires board observer Chris Degnan over secret talks with rival Cognition, Ideogram 4.5 launches precision multi-turn image editing model, FTC opens sweeping probe into Anthropic and OpenAI over consumer risks

OpenAI launches always-on AI agents called dots at DevDay 2026, GPT-6.1-Sol may be the Astra Minor looping model, Trump unveils AI-powered America.gov amid launch-day stumbles

Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform uses hardware watchdog to contain rogue AI agents, Meta launches enterprise AI unit and hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai, ElevenLabs Eleven v4 claims top voice TTS leaderboard

Microsoft overhauls Copilot with Home, Code, and Autopilot pillars, Autopilot agent gets its own directory identity and memory, Agent365 governance layer targets enterprise adoption, a principled AI decision draws praise amid danger, the internet reacts in three words

Meta's Muse AI agent reads private messages users blocked, raises opt-out data training concerns, and patches a zero-day exploit; software engineers are shifting from writing code to designing AI systems; debate erupts over whether to trust Yann LeCun or Geoffrey Hinton on AI's future

User alleges broad data access via Meta's Muse app, essay reframes software engineering as AI systems design, debate erupts over LeCun vs. Hinton on AI credibility

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS with voice cloning and SynthID watermarking, Jensen Huang calls AI alarmism irresponsible in Ezra Klein interview, Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% lower cost beating OpenAI to market by 90 minutes

Anonymous stealth model Union Alpha launches free on OpenRouter with 256K context and unknown creator, DeepMind Institute launches to tackle AGI governance with Shane Legg warning capabilities must not outpace safety, Anthropic merges Claude Cowork into unified chat interface with new Docs and Slides tools

International AI Safety Report grades top labs C or below, OpenAI containment breach revealed, Redwood Research pay joke goes viral as ad, OPM Director teases USA Talent AI update

Together AI announces 250MW data center deal with Saudi Arabia's Humain amid U.S. backlash, Pedro Domingos debates cross-entropy as log-likelihood vs. compression, Paul Graham says AI insiders were most surprised by LLMs

a16z closes $1.1B Machine Age Fund targeting AI hardware and infrastructure, xAI prepares shareable Grok Bot agent templates with one-click import, OpenRouter discounts on GPT-5.6 models trigger 13.8x surge in token usage

Pollen Robotics launches $399 open-source bipedal robot Microduck, Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, Hugging Face engineer addresses post-acquisition misinformation

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