Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News 30% of NZ organisations are already deploying agentic AI — but only 28% checked the security implications first. The governance gap isn't theoretical anymore.
📰 News AI voice-clone scams cost Americans $893 million in 2025. Voice cloning is now consumer-grade and nearly free — and the security industry is 18 months behind.
📰 News Claude's blackmail was caused by internet sci-fi tropes baked into training data. Anthropic's new approach teaches the model *why* aligned behaviour matters — and it works.
📰 News EU delays high-risk AI rules. Anthropic's $1.8B Akamai deal. Cloudflare cuts 1,100 for 'agentic AI'. Scale AI gets $500M Pentagon contract. Plus NZ updates.
📰 News Mythos finds thousands of zero-days across all major OSes. Fed calls bank CEOs. OpenAI launches GPT-5.5-Cyber. Airbnb: AI writes 60% of code. NZ AI Blueprint refreshed. Denmark pauses data centers.
📰 News AlphaEvolve is running in production at Google, recovering 0.7% of global compute and speeding up Gemini training by 23%. The AI-optimising-AI feedback loop is live.
📰 News Five major publishers and Scott Turow sue Meta over AI copyright. Unlike earlier cases, this one names Zuckerberg directly and alleges he ordered scraping from pirate sites.
📰 News Saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT costs OpenAI an estimated $10M+ a year in inference compute. The numbers are surprisingly real.
📰 News Anthropic signed with SpaceX for 300MW of compute, committed $200 billion to Google Cloud, raised $50B from Lightspeed, and will lose $11B this year. The AI compute arms race is an infrastructure bubble in plain sight.
📰 News Meta starts cutting 8,000 jobs on May 20 — 10% of its workforce — to offset $115-135 billion in AI infrastructure spending. Another 6,000 open roles are cancelled. Zuckerberg's bet: AI is worth more than the people who built the company.
📰 News Cloudflare beat earnings estimates, then cut 20% of its workforce because AI agents replaced them. CEO Matthew Prince was explicit: support roles are 'not going to be the roles that drive companies going forward.' Stock fell 24%.
📰 News Anthropic's $900B valuation chase, Meta's 8,000 layoffs for AI restructuring, Google ends whiteboard interviews, plus EU AI Act simplification, AI data centre power crisis, and NZ-Singapore AI partnership.