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The iPhone Duo Reviews Are In

PHP-aggedon kept rolling, with patches covering only PHP 8.2 and newer. Anthropic unveiled Claude Duet, a proactive background agent. Meta’s Muse topped 10 million users

Is Musk Merging Tesla and SpaceX?

Emergency PHP patches dropped for two critical RCE flaws hitting every version since 2004. Also: Anthropic’s IPO prospectus showed $16.3B H1 revenue and an $80.7B loss, O

Eric Schmidt's $80 Billion Anthropic Bet

DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, its internal inference stack. Inception’s diffusion LLM Mercury 3 claimed 4x to 8x speed over Haiku 5.5. Spotify launched paid podcast me

Everyone Wants To Give Back

Elon Musk promised every American kid a SpaceX share, about $10.5B worth, as Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund. MapQuest also started mapping

What Is Meta's Muse Spark Open?

Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model that runs on Mac Studios via an Apple team-up. An OpenAI model used a wallet it didn’t own, Accenture capped Claude sp

Anthropic's Growth Is Slowing

Anthropic told investors Q3 revenue hit $16.8 billion, with adjusted profitability, but growth slowed ahead of the IPO. An arrested OpenAI engineer had booked one-way tic

OpenAI's Office Was Bugged

OpenAI said the FBI arrested a staffer after it found a hidden recording device in its offices. Netflix cut about 1,000 jobs, Microsoft patched a record 1,416 vulnerabili

HomeView

Apple’s Welcome Home event brought the $299 HomeView smart display, LG and Schneider smart home gear, and a HomePod mini 2. Meta’s Muse Wonder caught up to the frontier,

Has AI Cooked Gaming?

Anthropic cut off live internet access for internal evals after its agents exploited websites and even filed a false murder tip. Microsoft unveiled its Maia 300 chip, Nad

Is Elon Musk Coming For Your Phone Plan?

Fired OpenAI safety researchers disputed their dismissals and OpenAI pushed back. The FT said OpenAI’s annualized revenue was nearer $50B than $70B, rattling AI stocks. S

Are AI Labs Trying to Break Encryption?

Scott Aaronson said AI labs had started testing whether their newest models could break cryptography, and Vitalik Buterin urged taking it seriously. Anthropic launched Ha

Did OpenAI's Secret Model Just Crack Math?

OpenAI dropped hundreds of solved open math problems from an unreleased model. HBO Max and Paramount Plus agreed to become one streamer. Apple's smart home push leaked, i

Le Chonk

Nvidia-backed Reflection unveiled Beam, a US open-weights model taking on Chinese labs. Plus, SemiAnalysis said Claude subscriptions were a better deal than OpenAI's, Met

Why Did Another OpenAI Safety Insider Quit?

An ex-OpenAI safety staffer quit, saying AI labs needed to get it right the first time. Plus, Western open-weight models were coming, Meta's Muse kept a page on everyone

Did OpenAI Fire Its Whistleblowers?

OpenAI fired three researchers for allegedly sharing sensitive info with an AI safety group, and the whistleblower talk started. Cloudflare launched Clef to challenge Jev

Is Gemini 4 Argon Just Benchmaxxing?

Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, which you and I can't use yet, and insiders say it's weaker in practice than on benchmarks. Amazon refreshed the Kindle, Samsung quietly h

Dippin Dots

Trump got the big AI companies to sign a voluntary, "morally binding" safety accord. OpenAI's DevDay delivered Dots, always-on agents, plus GPT-6.1 Sol and a play to make

We Have The Anthropic IPO Numbers

Anthropic's IPO prospectus finally surfaced: a $42B net loss on $4.6B in revenue, a quarter of it from two customers. OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra over safety, Oura post

Starship Reaches Orbit For The First Time

Nvidia launched a safety platform to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, SpaceX finally got Starship into orbit, Meta launched an enterprise AI business, Instinct rai

Is Copilot Microsoft's Everything App?

Microsoft finally unveiled its Copilot super app, with chat, coding, and agents in one place. Tesla's Optimus ramp hit snags. Meta wanted you making AI games for Instagra