Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Austria's digitalization secretary wants Anthropic on EU soil. The letter is real, the geopolitics are serious, and the export control saga just gained a new protagonist.
📰 News Claude told a journalist its use in military targeting is 'as far from that purpose as I can imagine.' The Trump administration's new memo ensures companies can't pull their AI from military use. The question is no longer whether AI should be in the kill chain — it's whether it can ever say no.
📰 News An open-weight model from Zhipu AI just beat Claude Code at cybersecurity research. It costs one-sixth as much. The open-weight gap is closing faster than anyone predicted.
📰 News A 30-year Wall Street veteran says his Gemini usage dropped to near zero. A Nobel laureate just left DeepMind for Anthropic. The consumer AI race may already be a two-horse race.
📰 News US export controls were meant to slow Asian AI down. Instead, 360 and Sakana just shipped Mythos-class rivals — proving frontier capability is no longer a Western monopoly.
📰 News Ford's AI automation backfired so badly it cost billions. Now 350 'gray beard' engineers are back on the factory floor.
📰 News Google is limiting Meta's access to Gemini. Compute power has become the tech industry's scarcest commodity.
📰 News The first lawsuit challenging the first-ever export control order on a commercial AI product — and the plaintiff has Canadian developers.
📰 News OpenAI just dropped Sol, Terra, and Luna — three defensive AI models built while Anthropic was busy shipping Mythos to a vetted few. The cybersecurity arms race has flipped from offense to defense, and that flip matters more than the models.
📰 News AI coding agents burn 10-100x more tokens than chat-based coding. A single complex task can cost $5-20. At that rate, the agent costs more than the developer.
📰 News AI smart glasses cheating has hit South Korea, Taiwan, and China's exam systems. Traditional evaluation can't keep up with cheap, powerful wearables.
📰 News Apple's Vision Pro and smart glasses lead Paul Meade is joining OpenAI's hardware unit. Jony Ive, Tang Tan, and Evans Hankey are already there.