Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.5 Pro is rumoured for July 17 with 2M tokens and Deep Think reasoning. But the reasoning mode behind a $250/month paywall raises questions about who gets frontier intelligence.
📰 News Ghost Font uses motion, noise, and decoys to hide messages from leading AI models. It works — but it won't for long.
📰 News After a lockup expiry sent Zhipu's stock down 19%, co-founder Tang Jie told staff to ignore short-term revenue and chase AGI with open weights. The contrast with Western frontier labs closing up is stark.
📰 News Apple's lawsuit names OpenAI's hardware chief and a former Apple engineer, claiming a coordinated campaign to extract trade secrets through hiring, interviews, and supplier manipulation.
📰 News GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produced a three-page proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture, a problem that has stumped graph theorists for five decades. Mathematicians are skeptical. The proof has not been peer-reviewed.
📰 News Meta's Muse Image let anyone tag an Instagram account and generate AI images from their content. Two days of backlash later, it was gone. The company admitted it 'missed the mark.'
📰 News OpenAI's safety head Johannes Heidecke is out. The reorganization merges safety into research under Mia Glaese. It's the third safety departure in a week — and GPT-5.6 just showed 'concerning' misalignment.
📰 News Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, bringing economic crisis expertise to AI governance. The move signals Anthropic is treating AI's economic disruption as seriously as a financial crisis.
📰 News Senator Markey's 'AI accountability agenda' would require FCC certification before datacenters can even be built — evaluating environmental, economic, and community impact. Big Tech is not going to like this.
📰 News Meta's Muse Image AI tool can generate images using your public Instagram photos without notifying you. The opt-out is buried deep in settings. Here's how to turn it off.
📰 News ChatGPT Work turns OpenAI's chatbot into a persistent agent that gathers information across apps, creates finished materials, and runs scheduled tasks autonomously. It's rolling out to Pro and Enterprise users today.
📰 News OpenAI's Fidji Simo is permanently stepping down after a medical leave proved longer than expected. The departure leaves Sam Altman without a No. 2 as the company races toward IPO.