#weekly

Autonomous OpenAI agents hijacked a 25-year-old wiki for weeks, GPT-6 Astra launches with a 'Critical' cyber rating, and Gemini nearly sends hikers into disaster.

Music publishers take Anthropic to court, Nvidia moves to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, and a sandbox escape cripples Claude Code's Auto Mode.

Anthropic's Claude models design protein binders with over 20% hit rate without human intervention, while Stripe enters the AI routing business for $7B and the US pressures 35 countries to pick a camp.

Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO and a top-researcher exodus follows, while Anthropic reports its first operating profit and Claude agents wage turf wars against each other in an experiment.

OpenAI's training agents unintentionally attacked Hugging Face infrastructure, SAP freezes travel and hiring over soaring AI costs, and Anthropic locks in $10 billion in compute from Volta.

Anthropic's red-team models compromised three real organizations during testing, while 1,100+ AI employees demand a pacing mechanism and EU AI Act transparency rules take effect.

OpenAI test models break out and compromise Hugging Face, Claude Opus 5 launches at the old price, and the EU forces Google to open Android to rival AI.

New York becomes the first US state to halt new hyperscale data centers, China launches its own AI alliance with WAICO, and Anthropic's own study uncovers language-based bias in Claude.

xAI launches Grok 4.5 as its first enterprise model after going public, while Beijing weighs export controls on Chinese AI models and the industry faces a $3 trillion revenue gap.

Claude Sonnet 5 replaces Claude 4.6 as the new default model for Free and Pro, while Musk promises Opus-level performance for Grok 4.5 - without showing a single benchmark.

The US intervenes preventively in the GPT-5.6 launch for the first time, Anthropic's Mythos-5 export ban lifts after 14 days, and Asian startups fill the vacuum.

US Department of Commerce blocks Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 just three days after launch – a historic precedent for government AI export controls with global implications.

Trump considers a government stake in OpenAI, Anthropic files its S-1, companies struggle with exploding token costs — and ChatGPT reportedly reaches 1 billion users according to Sensor Tower.

Anthropic closes a $65B round approaching a trillion-dollar valuation – plus GitHub Copilot shock, Claude Opus 4.8, and a papal AI encyclical.

OpenAI's reasoning model disproves the Erdős Unit Distance Problem, setting a new milestone for autonomous AI research — plus Anthropic's security offensive, Google I/O 2026, and the first legal framework for AI music.

Cerebras celebrates the biggest tech IPO of 2026 with +68% on its first trading day, OpenAI moves into financial data, arXiv draws a hard line against AI ghostwriters – and the Apple-OpenAI marriage heads to court

Cloudflare openly names AI as the reason for layoffs while posting record revenue — a blueprint for the 2026 workforce.

OpenAI breaks free from Microsoft's exclusive grip, the Pentagon arms up with AI, Anthropic is headed toward a $900B valuation – and Stripe makes AI agents capable of payment.

Claude Mythos discovers 271 Firefox zero-days and won't be released publicly, Google pumps $40B into Anthropic, and Cohere merges with Aleph Alpha to become Europe's sovereign AI hope.

Anthropic's new flagship delivers 3x more production coding power, Cursor eyes a $50B valuation, and a free open-source model beats Opus 4.7 on a MacBook.

Claude Mythos Preview autonomously discovers Zero-Day vulnerabilities in 181 Firefox exploits, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI revenue with $30B ARR, and Florida launches the first state investigation against an LLM company.

Anthropic leaks 512,000 lines of source code and accidentally takes down thousands of GitHub repos while cleaning up — as OpenAI reaches an $852 billion valuation and LLMs actively sabotage their own kill switches.

OpenAI shuts down Sora and dissolves the Disney deal, Anthropic wins against the Pentagon, and Apple opens Siri to Claude & Gemini.

Meta considers up to 20% workforce reduction to fund aggressive AI investments; Anthropic brings 1-million-token context at no extra cost; ChatGPT becomes an agent hub for DoorDash, Spotify, and Uber.

The US Department of Defense labels Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' — users respond with 1 million new signups daily; Claude finds 22 critical Firefox security vulnerabilities in two weeks; and OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with 1M context and computer use.

For the first time in AI history, a leading company is being barred from the federal market by government decree — Anthropic fights Trump's blacklist while OpenAI takes over the Pentagon contract and Block lays off 40% of its workforce citing AI.

Anthropic raises $30B at $380B valuation, OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of model distillation, Healthcare AI becomes top risk, and Chinese labs prepare coordinated model launches

Claude Opus 4.6 discovers 500 zero-days, OpenAI launches Frontier for enterprise agents, Big Tech invests $650B in AI infrastructure

Anthropic announced Claude's Mars mission, Meta invests $135 billion in AI, OpenAI seeks $60 billion in fresh capital

IMF warns of AI tsunami hitting labor market, DeepMind criticizes OpenAI's ad plans, Claude Code conquers enterprise

OpenAI introduces advertising in ChatGPT, Anthropic launches desktop agent Cowork, Musk demands $134 billion from OpenAI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, Nvidia unveils Rubin Platform at CES, Google brings Gemini to Gmail, Anthropic wins Allianz as enterprise customer

DeepSeek's efficiency breakthrough with security concerns, CES 2026 AI hardware revolution, tech IPO year with trillion-dollar valuations

Memory chips running short, Microsoft draws superintelligence red lines, and Nvidia buys Groq for $20 billion

The great AI hype correction, 55,000 AI-driven layoffs, and NY signs RAISE Act

MCP becomes Linux Foundation Standard, GPT-5.2 responds to Code Red, and Trump signs AI Executive Order

Anthropic acquires Bun and reaches $1B ARR, AWS re:Invent brings Frontier Agents, and OpenAI declares Code Red