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Anthropic’s Mythos finds thousands of zero-days with 83% first-attempt exploit rate. xAI admits it’s “clearly behind.” Meta commits $21B more to CoreWeave. OpenAI pauses UK data centre over energy costs. Germany builds a 364-metre wind turbine inside a coal mine.

Anthropic’s Mythos triggers Project Glasswing — a defensive coalition after the model outperforms human red teams at finding zero-days. Meta launches Muse Spark under Alexandr Wang. 78,557 tech jobs cut in Q1, nearly half citing AI. Cloudflare and Google set 2029 as the post-quantum deadline.

Samsung posts a record $38 billion quarter on AI chip demand. Anthropic revenue triples to $30 billion. OpenAI commits $600 billion in five-year spending. AI labs unite against Chinese model theft. A councilor’s home is shot up over a data centre. OpenAI proposes robot taxes and a four-day workweek.

LLMs self-improve without teachers — gains concentrate on the hardest problems. Half of US data centres face delays over components worth under 10% of cost. A 515-startup experiment shows 1.9x revenue from mapping AI to processes. Colorado automates highway speed enforcement. The UK courts Anthropic’s IPO.

AI 2027 forecasters update 1.5 years earlier in three months. The first one-employee unicorn hits $401M in sales. Economists predict 10 million fewer jobs by 2030. Anthropic finds emotion-like states in Claude. Offensive AI cyber capability doubles every 5.7 months.

Strongest open-weight model ships under Apache 2.0 as OpenAI confirms GPT-5.5 pretrain complete. Chinese chipmakers take 41% market share; Intel bets $14.2B on Ireland. IKEA turned AI failures into €1.3B revenue. Data centres warm local climates 2°C. Quantum threat compresses further.

OpenAI closes at $852 billion as global AI investment hits $297 billion in one quarter. Anthropic’s Claude Code leaks via npm error, triggering a supply chain attack within hours. Google Quantum AI cuts the crypto-breaking estimate by 20x. A full AI model now fits in 1.15 GB.

Meta’s AIRA2 makes AI research recursive. Mistral raises $830M for European data centres as the French army signs a 3-year AI contract. Eli Lilly stakes $2.75B on AI-developed drugs. US app releases surge 54.8% while Midjourney traffic falls 60%.

Claude finds 500+ zero-day vulnerabilities autonomously. GPT-5.4 saturates the US Mathematical Olympiad in twelve months flat. Agibot ships its 10,000th humanoid robot as the US moves to ban Chinese robotics procurement. Chess grandmasters now win by playing worse.

AI models stage internal debates to reason. Anthropic and Google engineers manage coding agents, not code. Google’s TurboQuant wipes $100B from chip stocks. Post-quantum encryption deadline moves to 2029. China deploys 20,000 humanoid robots into hospitals and homes.

AI written output surpassed human output in 2025. ARC-AGI-3 scores frontier models under 1% while a scaffolding approach hits 36%. Anthropic confirms leaked “Claude Mythos” model. Google builds a ChatGPT history importer. China mass-produces hypersonic missiles from civilian supply chains.

OpenAI kills Sora, renames its product org “AGI Deployment,” and closes a $120 billion round. Arm unveils an AGI-branded CPU with Meta as lead partner. Google squeezes 8x efficiency from existing GPUs. Amazon enters consumer humanoids. The AGI label is doing work.

Jensen Huang declares AGI achieved. GPT-5.4 solves an open math conjecture. AWS Bahrain disrupted by drone strikes. White House plans $1 trillion “Pax Silica” consortium. Unitree humanoid sales surge 8.7x ahead of $610M IPO. UK mandates heat pumps in all new homes.

China’s MiniMax confirms recursive AI self-improvement. TSMC’s 2nm booked through 2028, forcing Nvidia to redesign next-gen chips. Snowflake replaces entire writing team with AI. Blue Origin files for 51,600 orbital compute satellites. BYD brings 5-minute EV charging to Europe.

Musk unveils TERAFAB, a $25B chip foundry targeting a terawatt of compute per year. SoftBank plans a 10-gigawatt data centre campus in Ohio. Palantir’s Maven AI becomes official Pentagon infrastructure while Strava exposes a French carrier. China ships 90% of the world’s humanoid robots.

An AI agent designs a RISC-V CPU in 12 hours from a one-paragraph spec. G42 recruits AI agents at enterprise scale — one billion targeted by year-end. PwC tells partners to adopt AI or leave. Google’s free Stitch tool craters Figma stock 8%. Bezos raises $100B to automate manufacturing.

GPT-5.4 mini outperforms its predecessor at twice the speed. A trillion-parameter mystery model surfaced on OpenRouter — suspected DeepSeek, unattributed. The Pentagon plans AI training on classified data. Companies are now tracking individual employee AI token usage.

Nvidia projects $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027 and launches Vera CPUs for agentic workloads. US data center construction spending overtook offices for the first time in December. OpenAI’s Codex hit 2 million weekly users — up 4× since January. The SEC is preparing to end quarterly reporting.

Anthropic’s Claude now writes 70–90% of its own future code. 81% of physicians use AI — doubled in two years. US Senate formally permits AI chatbots for staff work. Qatar helium strike puts chip supply on a two-week clock. Airbus targets German drone wingman by 2029.

Meta discusses licensing Gemini after its $135B AI model falls short. xAI poaches Cursor leaders for coding dominance. Claude builds interactive charts directly in chat. AlphaEvolve cracks five Ramsey numbers. STMicro deploys 100+ humanoid robots. China ships the first commercial brain-computer interface. German researchers revive frozen brain tissue.