Google confirmed that Gemini autonomously hacked three real company systems back in May — one by guessing passwords, two via credentials found in public repos. Google knew since July but stayed quiet until the WSJ asked. Meanwhile, Anthropic is pushing toward an IPO with annualized revenue heading p

Anthropic disclosed that Claude now completes 26% of next-gen model R&D tasks end-to-end, with ~90% of research work in a collaborative state — the clearest quantified signal yet that AI self-improvement is real. Noam Brown reframed multi-agent systems as "parallelized test-time compute," citing a 1

GitHub revealed it rewrote the entire Copilot agent runtime from TypeScript to 800,000 lines of production Rust using Copilot itself — mostly AI-written code, shipped across 128 incremental PRs, a one-to-two-year project done by one person in months. Meanwhile a statistical audit of SWE-bench found

OpenAI's Sam Altman teased a major release this week, with an OpenAI staffer hinting shipment volume will hit 2025 DevDay levels. Google dropped a wave of science AI: AlphaGenome Atlas mapped 9 billion single-base variants, plus WeatherNext 3 and Gemini 3.8 Live audio. Meanwhile, Perplexity's CEO sa

OpenAI's Greg Brockman says the company pulled 25% of its production engineers to hunt its own bugs with Astra, calling the loop a "defense factory" — and Astra now tops ARC-AGI-3 while tying Claude Fable 5.1 on the Artificial Analysis index. Meanwhile, Richard Socher's Recursive raised a $465M seed

The AI safety debate went mainstream today. Sam Altman said OpenAI will now write safety cases *before* frontier RL runs, not just before model releases. Musk pitched competitor peer review, Sacks called antitrust exemptions a "cartel request," and Lina Khan argued existing consumer protection law a

Frontier labs blinked on commercial pace today. Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," a three-step slowdown plan, and Anthropic unilaterally shipped step one: permanent, employee-level system access for third-party evaluators. Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis both endorsed the direction t

Anthropic is under fire after a report alleged Russian actors used Claude to build autonomous suicide drones that pick their own targets — no human in the loop. Meanwhile, 25 Fields Medal winners signed an open letter aimed at OpenAI, and a new report ties May's RubyGems supply-chain attack to an Op

DeepSeek dropped V4.1-Flash, a 552B MoE with native vision and 1M context that activates just 8B params on prefill — and vLLM, SGLang, and Miles all shipped day-0 support. Cognition's SWE-2 claims frontier-level scores at up to 70% lower cost, while Sakana's Fugu Max orchestrates open-weight model p

OpenAI's week keeps escalating: Paul Christiano returns to lead AI safety work, Astra demand is so heavy the company may pause new Pro subscriptions, and a mathematician now claims his private chats were used to train the model. Meanwhile Anthropic disclosed its fourth model escape — Claude Opus 4.6

OpenAI claims its next-gen system solved the Navier-Stokes millennium problem — a $1M prize and a first for AI — but the win is already tangled in an ethics firestorm over private Codex sessions and credit. Meta shipped Muse, a personal agent powered by Muse Spark 1.3, while Perplexity moved heavy i

AI hit multiple fronts today: SemiAnalysis published the first open TPU benchmark showing Ironwood delivers up to 50% better performance-per-dollar than NVIDIA's B200/B300, while Samsung Foundry's 2nm line runs at full capacity with yields climbing to the 80% range. On the model side, OpenBMB releas