Block fires half its workforce for AI efficiency — stock jumps 24%. Software stocks shed $1.6 trillion. Norway’s sovereign fund screens ethics with Claude. CoreWeave, Dell, and Meta pour billions into AI compute. Smartphone shipments hit record decline. Anthropic refuses weapons work as AI values go geopolitical.
Claude agents ship a feature over a weekend. AI vulnerability reports overwhelm the NVD by 100×. Nvidia data center revenue hits $63.3B. Bavaria backs Proxima Fusion with €400M for Europe’s first stellarator. Shenzhen deploys 36 cleaning robots against a government cost benchmark. Fed’s Waller: economy growing, jobs aren’t.
Anthropic drops its core safety pledge as competitive pressure mounts. White House targets GDPR by name in diplomatic cable against data sovereignty. Qwen 3.5 35B beats its own 235B predecessor. Cloudflare rebuilds Next.js for $1,100 in one week. Harvard finds AI predicts 71% of fund trades. Ofgem warns UK data centers could double national power use.
Anthropic says AI assistants are enacted personas, not programs. ARC-AGI-2 saturated at 97.9% for $11.77. Claude Code threatens COBOL consulting — IBM drops 13.2%. Chinese labs ran 16 million distillation prompts through 24,000 fake accounts. Meta orders 6 GW of AMD GPUs. ASML boosts EUV output 50%.
METR reports AI autonomy horizon at 14.5 hours. Anthropic’s code security tool craters cybersecurity stocks 8%. OpenAI targets $600B in compute by 2030 while farmers field $120K/acre offers. Taalas bakes AI models into custom silicon in two months. AI agents manage 1 in 6 US apartments.
Gemini 3.1 Pro takes the SOTA crown at half the cost of Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2. US imports from Taiwan pass China for the first time since 1992. SoftBank plans a 9.2 GW gas plant to feed AI data centers. Freelancers replaced at 33:1 cost ratio. European restructuring costs hit 62 months per employee in Spain.
Claude Code sessions double to 45 minutes autonomously. OpenAI closes $100B at $830B valuation. GPT-5.3 exploits 72% of smart contracts. A toilet maker earns 40% of profits from AI chips. Accenture ties promotions to AI usage. EU survey: AI lifts firm productivity 4%. Andrew Yang warns of millions displaced within 18 months.
Conway Research launches an AI agent that earns its own survival. Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.6 beats Opus on financial reasoning at lower cost. Anthropic commits $80B to hyperscalers through 2029. Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra drops cost per token 35x. Microsoft’s AI chief predicts full desk-job automation within 18 months. Per-seat SaaS licensing gives way to consumption pricing.
Pentagon pits SpaceX against primes on drone swarms while threatening to blacklist Anthropic. Nvidia skips a GPU generation — first time in 30 years. Adani commits $100B to AI data centers in India. Chinese humanoid Bolt sprints at 35 km/h. Polylogue charges AI agents more than humans.
GPT-5.2 proves a new physics result in 12 hours. A Berkeley coding agent cuts its own costs by 98% overnight. Western Digital’s entire HDD capacity for the year is sold out. The US airlifts a nuclear reactor by C-17. Helion hits 150 million degrees in fusion. US productivity nearly doubles its decade average.