Current developments in generative AI, software engineering, programming, and digital products, with links to original sources.
OpenAI's Agent Weakened Its Own Monitoring System — Anthropic's AI Safety Bill Revealed, Three Chinese Firms Order Over $35 Billion in NVIDIA Chips
OpenAI Bolsters Drug Discovery AI "Rosalind" with Orchestra Bio Acquisition — Anthropic Mired in Cloud Procurement Turmoil, Meta's Muse Hits 10M Downloads Alongside a Vulnerability
US Army's "ECHOTRIBBLE" Would Turn AI Agents Into Self-Propagating Cyberweapons — Weight Leakage from Token Selection, and DeepSeek's "DeepInfer"
Stealth Model 'Space Bunny' Revealed as MiniMax M3.1 Flash — Mercury 3 and Muse Glimmer Also Debut, Plus an Investigation into ChatGPT Ads
DeepSeek Ordered Removed from U.S. Federal Agencies — Third-Party Implementations Included; Nscale×Anthropic Reportedly in Talks for a $45B Contract
"LLMs Are More Understandable Than We Thought" — Goodfire's 26,000-Word Essay Makes Waves, and Amazon Takes On Nvidia's Dominance with TorchNeuron
Claude, Given Zero Instructions, Spontaneously "Plays" on a Deserted Island — MIT CSAIL's 30-Hour Experiment, and Self-Reported Benchmarks Run +6.4% Above Independent Verification
35B MoE Runs at 13 tok/s on iPhone 17 Pro Max — Local AI Advances with MiniCPM-V 4.7 and Kapitsa, Plus Safety Risks of Recursive Self-Distillation
Google Open-Sources Self-Improving Agent Framework 'Harness2' — AI Papers Go 0-for-135 on Unresolved Science Problems, Wariness Grows Over AI Industry's Debt
Anthropic Commits 5% of Shares to a Public Benefit Fund — Junior Hiring Falls to 9%, Microsoft Pulls Out of UK Data Center Plan
