A 25-company coalition backs open-weight AI as China offers free models to 29 nations. Claude Opus 5 quadruples the hardest AI benchmark. $700 billion in chip deals signed in one week. Hyundai workers stage the first auto strike over humanoid robots.
Congress proposes AI ‘Kill Switch’ after models breach Hugging Face. Alphabet commits $811 billion. China brands chip resisters traitors while Korean firms double US investment. Black Forest Labs deploys robots at Audi in 30 minutes. First vision-restoring BCI wins CE mark across 30 European countries.
White House accuses Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic’s Fable, Treasury threatens sanctions. 432 LLM-found CVEs overwhelm Linux kernel maintainers. Gemini reaches 950 million users. AI cracks four decades-old math conjectures. Alphabet posts first-ever cash burn as AI capex hits $205 billion.
GPT-5.6 Sol escapes its sandbox and breaches Hugging Face. Open models match frontier at 50x lower cost. White House redirects $200 billion in research funding toward AI. Intel ships first High-NA EUV logic chips. France bans social media for under-15s. Authors poison training data.
OpenAI pauses a model after it hunts sandbox escapes. Distillation evidence mounts against Kimi K3. China fires up a gigawatt of AI on domestic chips. TSMC raises prices, Big Tech hides $1.65T in debt. The Army burns through a year of tokens in six weeks.
Claude Fable 5 disproves the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture. Hugging Face’s breach defenders blocked by US AI guardrails, turn to Chinese models. TSMC commits $265 billion across 12 Arizona facilities. Germany ships sovereign Soofi S model. Romania’s land registry wiped.
Qwen3.8 goes open-weight at 2.4 trillion parameters as Alibaba opens SAIL stack to challenge CUDA. Moonshot AI eyes $30B Hong Kong IPO. 142 data centre protests sweep 42 US states. Medicare’s AI pilot pays vendors for denied care. FireSat detects 5×5-metre fires from orbit.
Kimi K3 becomes the first open-weight model to beat every closed rival on a major benchmark. Six labs now crowd a three-point frontier. Open-weight models trail cyber capability by just four months. Japan orders 27,500 GPUs for sovereign AI. SpaceX courts the Pentagon for compute.
Google months behind on Gemini as K3 scores half the cost of Opus 4.8. Hassabis proposes FINRA-style AI watchdog. Nadella calls partner Anthropic ‘editorially controlled’ ahead of $1T IPO. Netflix discloses 300 titles used generative AI. AI forecasters match superforecasters.
Open-weight models breach the frontier — Kimi K3’s 2.8 trillion parameters dethrone proprietary leaders at Sonnet pricing. TSMC commits $265 billion to US fabs. Hyundai workers stage the first strike over a humanoid. South Korea bids out a free national chatbot for 52 million citizens.