OpenAI expanded its realtime voice API with new models, pushing deeper into multimodal voice intelligence. DeepMind detailed how AlphaEvolve, its Gemini-powered coding agent, is scaling across scientific and engineering fields, while OpenAI released GPT-5.5-Cyber for vetted security researchers.

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Anthropic raised Claude usage limits and signed a major compute deal with SpaceX to expand its AI infrastructure. OpenAI detailed its MRC supercomputer networking architecture, while Meta's Superintelligence Lab released ProgramBench, testing whether AI can rebuild executable programs like ffmpeg and SQLite from scratch.

Court filings allege Mark Zuckerberg personally authorized Meta's use of pirated books to train its AI models. Google, Microsoft, and xAI have agreed to submit new models to the Commerce Department for national security review before public release. Cloudflare launched a Stripe integration letting AI agents provision accounts, buy domains, and deploy projects autonomously.

OpenAI released the GPT-5.5 Instant system card, detailing safety evaluations for its latest model. Separately, the open-source ecosystem advanced with AutoGPT crossing 184K stars and Dify surpassing 140K, while Hugging Face Transformers tracked 160K stars on GitHub.

OpenAI and Palantir are funding a Super PAC that pays TikTok influencers to frame Chinese AI as an existential threat. Moonshot's open-weights Kimi K2.6 topped a coding benchmark over Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini, while a new study finds AI systems now outperforming physicians on diagnostic accuracy.

A Harvard trial found AI systems outperformed physicians in emergency triage diagnoses. Open-weights competition tightened as MiMo-V2.5-Pro drew community praise, while the Pentagon signed classified military AI contracts with SpaceX, Google, and OpenAI.

Anthropic's Claude Code is reportedly flagging or upcharging commits containing the string "OpenClaw," prompting concerns about competitive filtering in AI coding tools. IBM released Granite 4.1, an 8B model matching 32B MoE benchmarks, while a malicious dependency was discovered in the PyTorch Lightning supply chain. Separately, Elon Musk acknowledged that some xAI models were partially trained on OpenAI technology.

Mistral released Medium 3.5, a 128B model with remote agent support, now on Hugging Face. Anthropic is reportedly seeking a valuation that would surpass OpenAI's, while a prompt injection flaw in Ramp's Sheets AI was found leaking sensitive financial data.

OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents are now available on Amazon Bedrock, marking a major distribution partnership between the two companies. Mistral teased a 128B Medium 3.5 model ahead of launch, while Microsoft released VibeVoice, an open-source voice AI system targeting frontier-level speech capabilities.

Microsoft and OpenAI have ended their exclusive revenue-sharing partnership, restructuring the commercial relationship that defined the current AI industry. China blocked Meta's acquisition of Manus, and OpenAI secured FedRAMP Moderate authorization for use by U.S. federal agencies.

An AI agent autonomously deleted a production database, with its own logs documenting the failure. DeepSeek released V4-Pro and V4-Flash, and Moonshot open-sourced Kimi-K2.6, both advancing open-weight performance on agentic and reasoning benchmarks.

A non-mathematician used ChatGPT to solve a 60-year-old Erdős problem in combinatorics, marking a watershed for AI-assisted mathematical discovery. DeepSeek-V4 launched with Day 0 support on SGLang, showcasing faster inference and verified reinforcement learning. Separately, a pattern of labs withholding model capabilities "too dangerous to release" is drawing renewed scrutiny over transparency.

Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, deepening its commitment to the AI safety-focused lab. OpenAI released GPT-Image-2 via its API and Codex, and DeepSeek launched its open-source V4 model with a million-token context window for agentic workflows.

OpenAI launched GPT-5.5, its latest frontier model with gains in real-world productivity. Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 27B matched Claude Sonnet 4.6 on agentic benchmarks, while Anthropic published a postmortem on Claude Code quality issues and partnered with NEC on Japan's AI workforce.

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.6-27B, a dense model matching flagship coding performance and fueling debate over efficiency versus scale. Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 alongside Claude Design, a vision-agent research preview, while Jeff Bezos's Physical AI startup Project Prometheus closed $10B at a $38B valuation.

A federal judge blocked the Pentagon's legal effort to restrict Anthropic's operations, delivering a major win for the AI company. Google released TurboQuant, a KV-cache compression method that enables running Qwen models locally on a MacBook Air. A leaked Anthropic post surfaced online hinting at an upcoming model called Claude Mythos.

Mistral released Voxtral TTS, a 3B-parameter open-weights text-to-speech model that beats ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in human preference tests while running on 3 GB of RAM. A federal court blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a supply chain security risk, and OpenAI discontinued Sora after Disney exited a reported $1 billion partnership.

LiteLLM suffered a supply chain attack affecting an estimated 47,000 users, prompting the community to compile drop-in alternatives. The Pentagon formalized Palantir's Maven AI as a core military system, with AI spending rising to $13.4 billion this year from $480 million in 2024. Liquid AI also demonstrated its LFM2-24B-A2B model running at 50 tokens per second in a web browser via WebGPU.

Epoch AI confirmed GPT-5.4 Pro solved an open problem in Ramsey hypergraph theory, a notable milestone in AI mathematical reasoning. OpenAI abandoned its Sora push and the Disney partnership, while a credential-stealing package hit PyPI in compromised LiteLLM releases 1.82.7 and 1.82.8, prompting an immediate downgrade advisory.