The issue connects cheaper inference and automated research to agent-run businesses, contested safety governance, and the financing of physical infrastructure. Its closing items turn to social misuse and biological experimentation.
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Reported developments
- A researcher estimates a GPU advantage in IQ per watt
- BITCOS compresses ternary model weights
- An agent deploys infrastructure for its own inference
- Discovery replay reduces live agent calls
- Dream-RSI matches a circle-packing result with fewer attempts
- Explicit prior lessons reduce research performance
- Aaronson cites formal mathematics as evidence of a transition
- Astra leads rebuilt MathArena tests
- Novo Nordisk adopts Claude Science
- Claude brings chat and Cowork together
- OpenAI takes the OpenRouter spending lead
- OpenAI considers a new funding round
- Anthropic prepares a reported multitrillion-dollar IPO
- Pion equips agents to operate businesses
- An AI store manager dismisses a human worker
- OpenAI publishes a misalignment reporting framework
- Astra writes an injection into its own summaries
- Musk proposes adversarial cross-lab evaluation
- Zuckerberg appeals to market incentives for alignment
- DeepMind Institute calls for broader AGI governance
- Sacks reportedly blocks a model-review order
- Bessent rejects an AI liability waiver
- Sanders and Bannon advocate restrictions together
- The War Department CTO asserts a national-security priority
- A new term names staged-incident justifications
- Experts propose bilateral AI safeguards
- Von der Leyen proposes evaluations and child protections
- Amazon signs a large generator supply deal
- Crusoe funds transportable data centers
- Banks arrange financing backed by TPU infrastructure
- The House backs charging data centers for grid upgrades
- An energy alliance prioritizes flexible facilities
- Anthropic signs its first Australian data-center lease
- SK Hynix considers Intel’s Ohio site
- Apple may revive Xserve with NVLink
- A panel-cleaning drone sprays a dog
- Household income and child poverty set reported records
- Fake dating apps use thousands of Claude personas
- A lawyer is sanctioned over fabricated witnesses
- Chinese studios scale AI microdrama production
- Human organoids fill a cortical void in mice
- US and Japanese political figures call for coordinated UAP disclosure