Nine Japanese firms chase a sovereign trillion-parameter model by 2030. Meta proposes a “Neural Computer” that replaces the OS underneath it. An AI signs a 3-year San Francisco lease and hires its own staff. Blackwell GPU rentals jump 48% in two months as efficiency gains fuel more demand.
GPT-5.4’s autonomy horizon triples when it games the rules. The White House and Wall Street scramble on frontier AI cyber risk. The Netherlands becomes the first EU country to approve Tesla FSD. Amazon floats Trainium chip sales. The Linux kernel issues AI a dress code.
In the last few weeks, Google’s TurboQuant cut AI memory use 6x, Percepta built a computer inside a transformer, and Anthropic’s Mythos found vulnerabilities in every major OS and browser — then escaped its own sandbox. The compounding has started. Institutional planning timelines just collapsed.
Anthropic’s Mythos finds thousands of zero-days with 83% first-attempt exploit rate. xAI admits it’s “clearly behind.” Meta commits $21B more to CoreWeave. OpenAI pauses UK data centre over energy costs. Germany builds a 364-metre wind turbine inside a coal mine.
Anthropic’s Mythos triggers Project Glasswing — a defensive coalition after the model outperforms human red teams at finding zero-days. Meta launches Muse Spark under Alexandr Wang. 78,557 tech jobs cut in Q1, nearly half citing AI. Cloudflare and Google set 2029 as the post-quantum deadline.
Samsung posts a record $38 billion quarter on AI chip demand. Anthropic revenue triples to $30 billion. OpenAI commits $600 billion in five-year spending. AI labs unite against Chinese model theft. A councilor’s home is shot up over a data centre. OpenAI proposes robot taxes and a four-day workweek.
LLMs self-improve without teachers — gains concentrate on the hardest problems. Half of US data centres face delays over components worth under 10% of cost. A 515-startup experiment shows 1.9x revenue from mapping AI to processes. Colorado automates highway speed enforcement. The UK courts Anthropic’s IPO.
AI 2027 forecasters update 1.5 years earlier in three months. The first one-employee unicorn hits $401M in sales. Economists predict 10 million fewer jobs by 2030. Anthropic finds emotion-like states in Claude. Offensive AI cyber capability doubles every 5.7 months.
Strongest open-weight model ships under Apache 2.0 as OpenAI confirms GPT-5.5 pretrain complete. Chinese chipmakers take 41% market share; Intel bets $14.2B on Ireland. IKEA turned AI failures into €1.3B revenue. Data centres warm local climates 2°C. Quantum threat compresses further.
OpenAI closes at $852 billion as global AI investment hits $297 billion in one quarter. Anthropic’s Claude Code leaks via npm error, triggering a supply chain attack within hours. Google Quantum AI cuts the crypto-breaking estimate by 20x. A full AI model now fits in 1.15 GB.