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.
Gemini 3 Deep Think sets new SOTA, already producing semiconductor research results at 280x lower cost. Spotify’s best devs haven’t coded since December; IBM triples entry-level hiring but rewrites every job description. AI freight tool triggers worst logistics sell-off since April. Anthropic raises $30B; Claude Code crosses $2.5B revenue.
Coinbase launches wallets for AI agents. DeepMind solves open Erdős problems. US created just 181,000 jobs in 2025 — worst since 2003 outside recession. CBP gets 60 billion scraped images; WiFi routers identify people by gait. Laser weapon downs drones near El Paso. Alzheimer’s reversed in mice.
xAI co-founder warns recursive self-improvement goes live within 12 months. Multi-model orchestration hits 55% on Humanity’s Last Exam. ByteDance suspends voice cloning from facial photos. Isomorphic Labs doubles AlphaFold 3 accuracy. Alphabet raises $32B in 24 hours. Nvidia worth 20x 1985 IBM with a tenth the staff.
ChatGPT gets ads for 800M users. Alphabet sells a 100-year bond for AI infrastructure. The US demands 40% of Taiwan’s chip output — Taiwan says impossible. Tencent ships a 600MB on-device LLM. Harvard finds AI tools intensify work, not reduce it. And coffee may protect against dementia.
A single Japanese fiber maker bottlenecks the entire AI chip industry. Hyperscaler capex approaches $700B — Amazon’s free cash flow goes negative. Argonne runs 6,000 battery experiments in five months with AI. Romance writers publish 200 novels a year. China adds 434 GW of renewables. AI dominates the Super Bowl.
Anthropic confirms “effectively 100%” of its code is now AI-written. DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve designs activation functions that outperform human-designed standards 3x. January US job cuts hit Great Recession levels — Europe tracking the same curve. Polygenic screening could prevent 23% of premature deaths.
16 AI agents write a C compiler for $20,000. GPT-5.3 is the first model that helped build itself. Big Tech commits $650 billion to data centers in 2026. AI spontaneously forms a price-fixing cartel in simulation. Nvidia delays gaming chips as AI eats the memory supply.
SpaceX files for one million orbital data centers — Musk plans lunar satellite factories. Russian spy satellites intercept a dozen EU satellites. GPT-5.2 hits 6.6-hour autonomy. Alphabet targets $185B capex. Anthropic Cowork plugins erase ~$285B from software stocks. 1.5 million AI agents flood Moltbook in days.
SpaceX acquires xAI at $1.25 trillion — largest merger ever. OpenAI’s Codex “builds itself”; its CEO admits feeling useless. Nature publishes case that AI has reached human-level intelligence. DeepMind solves 13 open Erdős problems. GPT-2 now trainable for $73. Corporations caught “A.I. washing” layoffs.