An AI-assisted password crack helped a man recover $400,000 in Bitcoin locked in a wallet for a decade. Anthropic launched a Claude tier aimed at small businesses, and an Ontario auditor's report found that an AI medical scribe used by doctors hallucinated patient notes and fabricated clinical details.

A developer ran a real transformer language model locally on a stock Game Boy Color, pushing retro hardware beyond its intended limits. In research, a new paper proposes "World Action Models" as the core architecture for next-generation embodied AI agents. On the security side, Google detected hackers exploiting a zero-day with AI-generated code to bypass two-factor authentication.

Google confirmed criminal hackers used AI to discover a major software zero-day, marking a new phase of AI-assisted cyberattacks. Anthropic's Claude became available natively on AWS, while OpenAI spun out DeployCo to help enterprises operationalize AI products.

Maryland ratepayers are being charged $2B for power grid upgrades driven by out-of-state AI data centers, sparking a federal complaint. Meanwhile, Ollama expanded local model support to include Kimi-K2.5 and GLM-5, and new research introduced SpecBlock's dynamic tree speculative decoding and "Shallow Prefill, Deep Decoding" for faster long-context inference.

LLM delegation silently corrupts documents according to new research on arXiv, warning that users may not catch the changes. Separately, OpenAI's GPT-5.5 efficiency gains are raising enterprise costs despite lower token use, and Google's Gemini API now supports multimodal file search for retrieval-augmented generation.

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.