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.