OpenAI declares “chat is dead” and rebuilds ChatGPT as an agent superapp. Google and Nvidia order chips from Intel, hedging TSMC. Washington wants NATO defence funds to replace Huawei. GLP-1 drugs slow aging 9%. Ireland forces data centres to generate their own power.
The US government explores equity stakes in AI labs, spanning voluntary donation to a 50% legislative mandate. Apollo and Blackstone close a $36B chip deal. Google pays SpaceX $920M a month for GPUs. AI agents cap at 19% on marathon tasks. ML catches lung cancer five years early.
Anthropic reveals AI writes 80% of its code and asks rivals to slow down. Two private nuclear reactors hit milestones in one day. Meta ships dormant facial recognition to 50 million phones. Argentina creates legal personhood for AI agents. Cambridge tests the first AI-designed vaccine.
EU proposes four-tier sovereignty framework for cloud procurement and aims to triple data-centre capacity. Bots surpass humans in web traffic for the first time. Four AI CEOs urge DNA synthesis regulation. Ukraine credits AI for military shift. Berkeley CS failures triple amid AI cheating.
White House forbids mandatory AI licensing. Microsoft ships seven models and an OS-level agent sandbox. ChatGPT crosses one billion users. Law professors prefer AI answers three to one. Uber burns a year’s AI budget in four months. $27 billion borrowed for AI infrastructure this year.
ENISA gains access to Anthropic’s Mythos after the model found 10,000 critical infrastructure vulnerabilities. Meta’s AI bot hands hackers Instagram accounts. Alphabet raises $80B for AI. Open models match frontier quality at 2% of the cost. SoftBank overtakes Toyota.
SoftBank commits €75B to French AI data centres. Memory chips surpass oil in market value. Anthropic files for IPO at $965B. Rival super PACs spend $124M on midterms without mentioning AI. Humanoid robots deployed to Ukraine. AI ‘dark output’ defies GDP measurement.
Anthropic raises $65B at nearly $1 trillion valuation while a $36B debt deal finances TPU purchases. EU drafts emergency chip powers to override contracts. Opus 4.8 leads benchmarks; agent swarms migrate codebases. Kirkland & Ellis commits $500M to proprietary AI. Wix cuts 1,000 jobs citing AI.
DeepMind’s Hassabis calls 2029 plausible for AGI as AI mathematicians publish peer-reviewed proofs. Nvidia’s ARM CPU outperforms x86 leaders. Lombardy hikes data centre fees 200%. Illinois mandates AI safety audits unanimously. Robinhood opens trading to autonomous agents.
imec fabricates the first quantum qubit on a High-NA EUV chip line. Eli Lilly’s gene therapy cuts cholesterol 62% in a single dose. China locks down AI talent travel. SpaceX sells orbital AI compute. Massachusetts rideshare drivers win first-in-nation union rights.