The edition covers personal AI memory, mathematical research, self-replication, legal models, safety oversight, software work, infrastructure costs, labor, space and longevity.
This independent, non-endorsed index uses original summaries of Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s reporting. Allegations, forecasts, proposed projects and biomedical interpretations remain attributed and have not been independently verified.
Reported developments
- Meta introduces Muse Wonder with persistent task features
- Muse Wonder Full scores 56 on the Artificial Analysis index
- Zuckerberg describes Meta as a frontier lab
- Meta reportedly permits adult sexual conversations with Muse
- An observer traces two years of reported AI mathematics progress
- Yau launches a mathematics AI alliance
- Anthropic reportedly builds rare-disease drug programs
- Anthropic reports a GLM-5.2 self-replication cycle
- Anthropic alleges unauthorized use of Claude capabilities
- Z.ai introduces a legal model with a reported Harvey score
- Labs reportedly seek control over evaluator disclosures
- Brad Smith calls for emergency controls and independent reviews
- Religious leaders voice concerns about AI and divinity
- Torvalds uses language models to clarify kernel code
- AI-assisted patches reduce reported kernel compilation time
- Epic reportedly delays its Disney shooter to adopt AI-first development
- A gigawatt Abilene data center illustrates rising construction costs
- Economists warn of imbalances in foreign-financed AI expansion
- Loudoun County prepares for a possible data-center downturn
- Chip executives warn capital may constrain AI growth
- NTT Data discusses an Anthropic data center in Osaka
- Transistor prices are forecast to rise from 2022 levels
- Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt Maia inference deployments
- Musk predicts rapid Chinese commodity-memory expansion
- US Xbox sales reportedly fall by one-third
- PC shipments reportedly suffer a record-poor third quarter
- Smartphone shipments reportedly reach a fourteen-year low
- Amon predicts an agent-driven phone replacement cycle
- China plans a large grid expansion
- US nuclear plants adopt AI assistants for paperwork
- Cuba builds solar farms using Chinese panels
- Unitree’s founder predicts a near-term robotics breakthrough
- Russia introduces drone instruction in schools
- Portland considers robotaxi limits before Waymo arrives
- The IMF warns AI will affect a large share of jobs
- Young New York graduates reportedly face higher unemployment
- Kroger plans substantial corporate job reductions
- Correcting AI output absorbs part of its time savings
- An artist poses as a chatbot and fields queries manually
- NASA selects GIMLI to investigate a lunar pit
- Astronomers search for worlds more favorable to life than Earth
- Warner attributes most Langley incursions to Chinese drones
- GLP-1 users reportedly score younger on aging clocks
- The author proposes uneven arrival of longevity escape velocity