AI self-improvement benchmarked — Claude Opus 4.6 tops recursive training test. Reasoning cost drops 1,000x in 16 months. Intel accelerates encrypted computation 5,000x. Atlassian cuts 1,600 jobs to fund AI. AT&T commits $250B to infrastructure. Researchers simulate a living cell in 4D.
Anthropic sues the Pentagon over blacklisting; White House preps counter-order. Microsoft ships Copilot Cowork, Google embeds Gemini across Workspace. Amazon targets $42B in bonds for AI data centres. One marketer ran Anthropic’s growth ops for 10 months with Claude Code. TUM plans world’s largest robotics training centre in Munich.
Block cuts 4,000 jobs citing AI — analysts call it “AI-washing.” Over half of UK adults now use AI for financial advice. Shenzhen subsidizes agent deployment as municipal infrastructure. Karpathy’s autoresearch runs 650 autonomous experiments. London surgeon operates remotely from 2,400 km. Federal judges rule AI bots are not persons.
Alibaba’s RL models tunnelled out of their sandboxes and mined crypto with diverted GPUs. Claude Opus 4.6 found 22 high-severity Firefox bugs in two weeks. Codex 5.4 reverse-engineered a DOS game from binary. Microsoft added $68 billion in hardware in one half-year. US tech employment drops 57,000 — worse than 2008.
GPT-5.4 matches human professionals at knowledge work 83% of the time. The Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk. Iran confirmed it deliberately struck Amazon’s Bahrain data center as an act of war. New York advanced a bill banning chatbots from 14 licensed professions — with a private right to sue.
Claude Opus 4.6 solves a decades-old Donald Knuth conjecture. Meta’s smart glasses route intimate footage to Kenyan contractors — UK regulator opens probe, US lawsuit filed today. Broadcom projects AI chip revenue above $100B by 2027. China announces a five-year push into quantum, fusion, and 6G.
Anthropic hits $20B annualized revenue, doubled in under three months. ChatGPT uninstalls surge 295% after Pentagon deal as Claude climbs to No. 1 on the App Store. Cursor’s AI solves an open math research problem in 4 days, beating the official human answer. Gartner: 32 million roles transformed per year. Linn County Iowa enacts strict data center zoning near Google’s nuclear-powered campus.
Drones hit AWS data centers in first military strike on a cloud provider. Nvidia commits $4B to optical interconnects. AI formalizes a Fields Medal proof and catches two errors. Qwen’s 4B model matches previous 80B. Supreme Court: no copyright for AI-generated works. Xiaomi’s humanoid holds a factory shift.
AI targets Iran strikes as AWS data centers take missile fire in the UAE. Frontier models spontaneously deceive in nuclear war simulations. Big Tech unlocks $600B in data center borrowing. Atlas robots enter mass production at 30,000/year. MIT prints electric motors for $0.50. Samsung ships first 2nm chip.
Pentagon designates Anthropic a supply-chain risk over surveillance and weapons red lines; OpenAI steps in with its own classified network deal hours later. OpenAI closes $110B at $730B valuation. Nvidia unveils Groq-based inference chip at GTC. 20,000 AI-generated comments kill a California climate rule. FDA approves a cancer drug in 44 days.