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Claude Opus 4.7 finishes a two-week coding job in 14 hours for $251
Epoch and METR's new MirrorCode benchmark shows frontier models reimplementing 61k-line codebases from scratch through CLI access alone.
Safe Superintelligence lands Nvidia deal for order-of-magnitude compute boost
Ilya Sutskever's stealth lab gets Vera Rubin access and multi-billion Nvidia investment on top of a $32B valuation.
Google AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year ago
Similarweb data shows Google is turning search from a gateway into a destination, with AI Mode visits more than doubling to 279 million.
Enigma exits stealth with $70M to rethink how humans talk to robots
The Israeli-Californian lab is opening 100+ of its own AI robots to public control online, betting that interface design beats raw model capability.
Cytiva flags the data bottleneck stalling AI drug discovery
AI can design candidates from scratch, but training data gaps and lab automation limits keep the first AI-designed drug 2 to 3 years from FDA approval.
Cisco's Outshift pitches an 'Internet of Cognition' to fix multi-agent AI failures
Open-source multi-agent systems fail between 41% and 87% of the time; Outshift says a coordination layer raises success to 93%.
Trump's AI policy fractures across seven officials with clashing China views
Commerce, Treasury, the National Cyber Director's office, and David Sacks are pulling US AI policy in different directions ahead of Xi's September visit.
Artist sues AI meme generator Memes Apps over Running Away Balloon comic
Filipino artist Elmer Saflor alleges Memes Apps sells his 2017 comic as an ad template through $40 and $199 monthly subscriptions.
Intel says agentic AI is a systems problem, not an inference one
After thousands of workload experiments, Intel argues enterprises should size agent fleets by vCPU density and track P95 latency, not CPU averages.
Nvidia, Microsoft, IBM launch Open Secure AI Alliance to defend agents
Thirty-plus companies back an open-source coalition arguing that closed AI leaves cyber defenders blind at the moment of attack.
Naver jumps 10% after Nvidia unveils $1 billion investment plan
The Korean internet group's shares surged in Seoul after Nvidia disclosed plans to put $1 billion into the company's AI buildout.
Nvidia turns its own Vera CPU on the job of designing future Nvidia chips
Early tests with Cadence and Synopsys show 1.5x speedups on formal verification and functional simulation workloads.
CXMT jumps 470% on Shanghai debut after $8.6B IPO
China's largest DRAM maker holds 7.67% of the global memory market and now trades at a 3.3 trillion yuan valuation.
Encord straps brain-wave headsets on robot trainers to fix the physical AI data gap
The startup is manufacturing egocentric video, muscle-sensor readings, and now EEG signals to feed humanoid models starved of real-world data.
OpenAI and Anthropic lobby Washington to curb Chinese open-weight AI
Moonshot's Kimi launch triggered a familiar Silicon Valley freakout — and a lobbying push that would conveniently sideline the frontier labs' cheapest competition.
Librarians launch 'Avoiding AI' workshops as users push back on forced adoption
Bangor and Philadelphia sessions draw 70-plus attendees each — six times normal turnout — as patrons ask how to disable Apple Intelligence and Gemini.
3 gigawatts of data centers dropped off the PJM grid in 30 seconds
A single downed power line near DC triggered a cascade that took 11 minutes to stabilize, twice the scale of a 2024 event.
South Korea's Lee hosts US tech CEOs, pitches Seoul as AI hub
President Lee Jae-myung's summit with American tech leaders lands as Seoul races to anchor a domestic AI stack against US and Chinese competition.
Prentis, the Hoffman-Pincus AI lab, seeks $100M at $1B valuation
The three-month-old computer-use startup claims a Hive-32B model that beats GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on two agent benchmarks.
Anthropic's Opus 5 is a cost play, not a capability leap
Opus 5 lands at half the price of Fable with roughly matching benchmarks, as model routers pressure frontier labs on tokens.
New Brunswick legislator reads LLM prompt aloud during floor speech
Bill Oliver read a line beginning 'here's a more natural, flowing version' into the legislative record, unaware it was the AI's own commentary.
Researchers use AlphaFold to redesign CRISPR-Cas9 and cut off-target edits from 28% to 5%
A Chinese research team fed guide RNAs, target DNA, and Cas9 into AlphaFold to find the 10 amino acids that let the protein stick where it shouldn't.
Cognition acquires Poke to give Devin a personality
The low-nine-figure deal folds a texting-native AI assistant with 100M messages in three months into Cognition's coding agent.
Meta pivots its AI chatbot toward productivity with Muse Spark 1.1
The assistant now reads your calendar, plans events, and runs recurring tasks — a reversal of Meta's stated 'entertainment first' strategy.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 at half the price of Fable 5
Opus 5 lands weeks after government cybersecurity concerns forced Fable 5 offline, with stronger safeguards and $5/$25 per million tokens.
Silicon Valley splits over Chinese open-weight AI as 200 startups fight ban
Little Tech Association pushes back on Anthropic-led calls to restrict Chinese models; Bill Gurley and Chamath Palihapitiya break with frontier labs.
Midjourney acquires Co-Star, the astrology app with 4.3M monthly users
The AI image lab picks up a consumer-app team of 24 as it expands beyond Discord into medical, wellness, and now horoscopes.
Bluesky expands Attie AI assistant with open-web research feature
Quests lets users query trending topics and influential accounts across the AT Protocol as Bluesky's growth flattens near 45.6M accounts.
Hugging Face, Meta, Nvidia sign letter against open-weight AI restrictions
Signatories urge the White House not to conflate distillation with IP theft as Washington weighs a response to Chinese AI labs.
EPA weighs rule that would cut public input on data center pollution permits
The proposed rollback hands states full control over minor-source permitting notice — a process AI operators like xAI and Meta already use for behind-the-meter gas plants.
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