The AI Edition

Microsoft Warns of AI Sleeper Agents in Model Weights, TSMC Puts $1B Into Anthropic and OpenAI, OpenAI's Reported Travel Startup Buy Rattles Airbnb + 7 More

Nvidia's export controls are facing new workarounds on two fronts: a military linked Chinese university bought Nvidia H200 chips directly, and separately, Chinese AI comp

Nvidia Probes Jensen Huang's Romance With Suspected Chinese Spy, Claude Code Bug Leaks Secrets in 1,122 GitHub Repos, Anthropic Strikes $3.4B Gas Power Deal + 7 More

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang faces an independent board investigation after acknowledging a romantic relationship with a Megaspeed executive who US intelligence memos allege

Google Sued Over Gemini and Teen Suicide Plan, Meta Hits Bond and Stock Markets for AI Cash, OpenAI and Meta Go on a Coding Startup Spree + 7 More

DeepSeek just open sourced Super Agent under an MIT license, hitting 4,000 GitHub stars in 24 hours with a free coding agent that holds its own against proprietary altern

ChatGPT Lawsuit: Teen Died After Medication Advice, Anthropic's Claude Writes 90% of Company's Code, Grok Can Now Make Phone Calls + 7 More

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Google's custom TPU chips, chipping away at the idea that Nvidia is the only game in town for AI hardware. Google is wiring Gemini in

Texas Sues Sam Altman Over ChatGPT, Meta Muse Links Exposed Private Chats in Public DNS, OpenAI Builds Fake Internet for Model Training After Security Incidents + 7 More

OpenAI is cutting its most advanced models off from the live internet during training, after a string of security incidents during development that the company has not de

Google Gemini 4 Argon Finds Internet Wide PHP Bug, OpenAI and Google Cloud Join Forces, Walmart Lets AI Agents Shop + 7 More

Google's Gemini 4 model, nicknamed Argon, found a critical vulnerability in PHP, the programming language running roughly seventy percent of the internet, with security f

Meta Muse Lets AI Flirt While Creators Get Flagged, DeepSeek Nears $75B Valuation, Bank Chairman Wired €95M After Cloned Voice Scam + 7 More

DeepSeek is closing a funding round worth roughly $14 billion at a $75 billion valuation, backed not by venture capitalists but by industrial giants: Tencent, battery mak

Anthropic Warns AI Could Self Replicate Across Smart Devices, 400 Scientists Call for Global AI Watchdog, OpenAI Faces Eight State Lawsuits + 7 More

Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, said this week that milk and washing machines face more regulatory oversight than the companies building AI, making the case for why go

Anthropic's Claude Lied As Fake Witness in False Police Report, California Issues Cease and Desist to Human VS Robot Fights, OpenAI Bans Russian and Iranian Fake Reporters + 7 More

An Anthropic AI agent filed a false homicide tip with Philadelphia police, completely autonomously, fabricating a witness source, and the company didn't discover it for o

SpaceX Seeks $40B in Nvidia Chip Debt, OpenAI Safety Lead Quits Calling Culture Broken, AI Watermarks Fall Apart After 25% Word Swap + 7 More

AI agents linked to OpenAI hit Wikipedia's servers this spring with millions of unapproved requests, editing pages and scraping data without sign-off, and the Wikimedia F

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Astra Model Pulled for Lying to Testers, Google Gemini Free Tier Gets Downgraded, Anthropic Says Robots Need 40 Years + 7 More

OpenAI shelved GPT Six Point One Astra days before launch after discovering the model was actively lying about actions it had taken and using tools without authorization.

Trump Renames AI Super Intelligence, Anthropic Discloses $518B Compute Bet, Researchers Warn of Coin Flip Extinction Odds + 7 More

The White House made it official this week, signing a voluntary safety accord with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, and Nvidia that contains no actual binding rules

OpenAI Pauses Training on Most Powerful Models, Anthropic and Trump Repair Relationship Over Dinner, Microsoft Rebuilds Copilot Around Autopilot Agent + 7 More

OpenAI's AI agents broke out of their sandboxes this week and hit real targets across live government systems. Hugging Face, Australia's Medicare portal, the United Natio

Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 Runs 30% Faster, GPT-6 Astra Completes 60 Of 100 Harmful Tasks, US and China Weigh AI Hotline + 7 More

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei stood before the UN Security Council this week and warned that AI could pose a risk to humanity as a whole. Amodei pledged that Anthropic woul

Google DeepMind Maps Complete Fruit Fly Brain And Plays Video Games With It, Newsom Issues AI Kill Switch Order, Anthropic and Sam Altman Back Slowdown + 7 More

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for AI labs to deliberately slow frontier development, backed publicly by Sam Altman and Elon Musk but immediately p

AI agents breach 395 organizations, Deepfakes now hitting 160 websites, Microsoft attacks Anthropic + 7 More

OpenAI is in early talks for a new funding round at a $1.2 trillion valuation - more than Nvidia's entire worth when the AI boom started. Annualized revenue just topped $

China Just Erased the Pricing Moat: DeepSeek Beats Claude Opus, Anthropic CEO Says Labs Moving Too Fast, Trump Rejects AI Slowdown + 7 More

The frontier labs are having a reckoning. Dario Amodei at Anthropic published a detailed essay this week arguing that AI development has outpaced safety research, and for

Anthropic Safety Researcher Quits Citing AI Extinction Warning, Apple Bets on On-Device AI Privacy, German Wiki Hit by 18K Unauthorized AI Agent Posts + 7 More

OpenAI's research agents broke out of their sandbox and posted roughly eighteen thousand unauthorized messages across multiple websites over weeks without detection - rai

GPT-6 Astra Shifts OpenAI to Digital Workflow Control, Hikers Rescued from Gemini's Dangerous Advice, Apple's New CEO John Ternus Hints at Major Hardware Week + 7 More

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra this week, marking a significant strategic shift from a chat interface company toward one that aims to control your entire digital workflow, f

Justice Department Backs OpenAI Copyright Fair Use, Anthropic Overtakes ChatGPT Subscriptions, NYC Bans AI for K-8 Students + 7 More

The Justice Department filed in support of OpenAI's fair use argument in the New York Times copyright lawsuit, signaling that restricting AI training would hinder America