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China's Z.ai claims GLM-5.2 matches Anthropic's Mythos on bug-finding
The open-weight model lags on general tasks but reportedly closes the gap on cybersecurity — the exact capability US export curbs were meant to contain.

ChatGPT logs entered as evidence in Palisades fire trial, jury unconvinced
Prosecutors leaned on Jonathan Rinderknecht's chatbot history; the jury split 10-2 for the defense and the judge declared a mistrial.

Apple's Vision Pro chief Paul Meade is leaving for OpenAI's hardware team
Meade, who also led Apple's planned AI smart glasses, joins an OpenAI hardware push already staffed by Jony Ive.

Apple raises Mac, iPad, and HomePod prices, blames AI memory crunch
Tim Cook calls the hikes unavoidable as AI data centers outbid consumer device makers for RAM — even with Apple posting four straight record quarters.

NYT amends OpenAI suit, targets Microsoft's bespoke training supercomputer
The Times reframes its contributory infringement claim after a Supreme Court ruling for Cox, alleging Microsoft built the system to train on its articles.

OpenAI joins Google, Apple, and SpaceX in building its own AI chips
OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip, built with Broadcom, marks the latest move by frontier AI buyers to hedge against Nvidia dependence.

OpenAI hires Uber India chief Prabhjeet Singh to run its second-largest market
The first India MD will report to APAC chief Kiran Mani as OpenAI races Anthropic and Microsoft for more than 1 billion internet users.

OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout under government request, pushes back
Sol, Terra, and Luna go to a small group of trusted partners as OpenAI says pre-release review should not be the long-term default.

OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 in three tiers, undercuts Claude on price
Sol, Terra, and Luna launch under a White House-monitored preview, with Sol priced at half of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.

US government now gates frontier AI releases at OpenAI and Anthropic alike
After pulling Anthropic's Fable and Mythos, regulators are now approving GPT-5.6 customer by customer — a release model the whole industry has to navigate together.

Amazon MGM drops $40M OpenAI biopic as tech-Hollywood ties tighten
MGM Studios shelved Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman film 'Artificial' near completion, days after Google DeepMind's $75M A24 deal.

OpenAI delays GPT-5.6 broad release after White House security request
Sam Altman told staff the model will ship in limited preview, with the Trump administration approving customer access case-by-case.

Claude's paying consumers up 75% since January, eating into ChatGPT's lead
Credit card data from 28 million U.S. consumers shows Anthropic's Claude gaining on ChatGPT in a market OpenAI has owned outright.

Accenture rations AI tokens as employees burn budgets on basic tasks
After pushing staff to use AI or lose promotions, the consulting firm is now telling them to stop converting PDFs to slides with it.

Google loses Gemini architects Adler and Pritzel to Anthropic
Two more Gemini researchers join a wave of defections to Anthropic and OpenAI, weeks after Google paid $2.7B to bring Noam Shazeer back.

OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip built with Broadcom
The processor targets inference workloads and was co-developed using OpenAI's own models, with early tests showing better performance-per-watt.

SoftBank's Masayoshi Son calls AI bubble talk 'blasphemy against AI'
The SoftBank founder, one of the largest financial backers of OpenAI, is pushing back hard against the bubble narrative gaining steam across markets.

Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it funds $50B AI buildout with debt
A 12.9% workforce reduction and $1.8B in restructuring costs accompany Oracle's debt-fueled push into AI cloud infrastructure.

AI super PACs pour $27.83M into a single NY House primary
Anthropic-linked groups and a $100M rival PAC turned an obscure Manhattan race into the first AI-regulation referendum.

GPT-5 Pro helps immunologist crack a 3-year T cell mystery
OpenAI says its top reasoning model gave Derya Unutmaz the breakthrough insight that closed a stalled immunology project with cancer implications.

OpenAI and Trail of Bits launch Patch the Planet for open-source security
OpenAI's Codex Security backs human reviewers at Trail of Bits in a direct counter to Anthropic's Mythos.

Anthropic's Boris Cherny pushes 'loops' as the next step beyond agents
The Claude Code creator says swarms of agents prompting agents are as big a leap as the move from hand-written code to agentic AI.

OpenAI launches Patch the Planet and a sharper GPT-5.5-Cyber to outflank Anthropic
GPT-5.5-Cyber scores 85.6% on CyberGym, beating Anthropic's Mythos 5, as OpenAI subsidizes open-source bug fixes at scale.

AI out-persuades expert human debaters in Oxford and AISI study
Across 18,978 conversations, frontier models beat elite debaters and raised 3x more donations than professional canvassers for Save the Children.
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