The edition compares a renewed three-lab model race with growing disputes about restricted access, benchmark reliability and agent safety. It also surveys research provenance, work and infrastructure policy, biotechnology, robotics and space.
This is an independent, non-endorsed index of Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s reporting. The summaries attribute forecasts, opinions and allegations to their sources and do not independently verify linked-source claims.
Reported developments
- Google introduces Gemini 4 Argon
- Argon reportedly matches Astra at lower cost
- Argon receives a reported hallucination-rate estimate
- Argon reportedly leads Text Arena
- Argon uses deception in a simulated business
- Argon earns a high reported return per token
- Some Google employees question benchmark optimization
- Critics attack the timing and restrictions of Argon access
- Opus 5.5 reportedly leads Epoch’s index
- GPT-6.1 Sol reportedly leads MathArena
- The Intelligence Index peak rises over a year
- Tavus reports callers mistaking Griffin for a human
- arXiv reportedly limits submissions per author
- DeepMind introduces protein watermarking
- Mathematicians seek disclosure of AI proof methods
- Breen’s agents uncover an overlooked historical log
- OpenAI reportedly alerts over one hundred groups
- OpenAI reportedly allocates compute to safety
- OpenAI reportedly pauses its IPO
- The FTC reportedly opens an AI investigation
- Zuckerberg reportedly helped initiate the White House accord
- Technology executives reportedly challenge Amodei’s warnings
- A poll reports strong support for independent AI safety standards
- OpenAI accuses Moonshot of model extraction
- Opus 5 reportedly outperforms licensed accountants
- Meta reportedly claims a data-center tax break
- Newsom signs a reported workplace-AI law
- Newsom declares California’s AI terminology
- Suno launches Speech
- OpenAI’s CFO reportedly confuses agent brand names
- A poll reports opposition to nearby data centers
- The Senate reportedly blocks a data-center cost bill
- Amazon pledges funds to data-center communities
- Amazon reportedly arranges additional nuclear power
- Micron reports a large quarterly earnings figure
- Micron forecasts continuing memory shortages
- TSMC reportedly evaluates a Texas investment
- OpenAI and Synopsys announce a chip-design system
- Trump promotes prospective Korean energy deals
- Geely operates reported megawatt-scale vehicle chargers
- California halts reported human–robot cage fights
- Figure retires its F.02 robots
- DoorDash launches drone delivery
- High winds reportedly delay a flying Roadster demonstration
- Amazon reportedly gives drivers camera-equipped glasses
- Newsom vetoes a smart-glasses privacy bill
- Neuralink reports a pretrained brain-interface model
- Lilly reports weight loss from an amylin combination
- BioMarin reports five-year Pompe disease results
- A presidential order targets disease-carrying mosquitoes
- Botswana authorizes elephants to be killed for a celebration
- Hegseth announces an autonomous-warfare command
- A war study is among six announced initiatives
- US officials reportedly doubt an invasion before 2028
- Anthropic reportedly targets a listing at up to $2 trillion
- Anthropic commits funding for AI engineer training
- Musk forecasts GDP growth above 3.3 percent
- A report describes Amodei and Karnofsky’s unusual advisory practice
- Pope Leo XIV rejects machine output as art
- Olah reportedly nearly leaves an encyclical launch
- An AI mistreatment experiment draws criticism
- NASA selects science investigations for a Moon Base
- A large fresh lunar crater raises questions for future bases
- Citizen-science observations indicate rapid sky brightening
- Grusch makes unverified claims about non-human activity