Anthropic fields investment offers valuing it at nearly $1 trillion amid surging revenue, potentially surpassing OpenAI. - Financial Times

Reading Claude’s mind: Anthropic introduces natural language autoencoders that decode Claude's activations into text, revealing unverbalized awareness in 16% of safety tests and 26% of SWE-bench problems. - Anthropic

White House shifts on oversight, JD Vance warns AI CEOs of Anthropic's Mythos model cyber risks. - The Wall Street Journal

I’m sure it’s all about safety

Bug zapper: Mozilla fixed 271 latent security bugs in Firefox 150 using Claude Mythos Preview and other AI models. - Mozilla

Compute clawback: Elon Musk states SpaceX reserves right to reclaim compute from Anthropic if its AI harms humanity. - Techmeme

Robot mentor: Workers increasingly use AI tools like Anthropic's Claude for career coaching, with 96% reporting customized advice per 2025 Conference Board research. - Fast Company

Witnesses testify in Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit that company disbanded safety teams in 2024 and ignored GPT-4 deployment reviews. - TechCrunch

Microsoft executives skeptical of OpenAI funding in 2018 but feared pushing it toward Amazon, Musk v. Altman trial evidence shows. - WIRED

OpenAI launches GPT-Realtime-2 scoring 15.2% higher on Big Bench Audio, plus GPT-Realtime-Translate and GPT-Realtime-Whisper. - TNW | Openai

OpenAI launches opt-in Trusted Contact feature for adult ChatGPT users to notify designated contacts of detected self-harm discussions. - The Verge

OpenAI traces ChatGPT and GPT-5 insertions of gremlins and goblins to 'Nerdy' persona training rewards. - Forbes

French prosecutors escalate probe of Elon Musk and X to a criminal investigation over harmful AI deepfakes and algorithmic manipulation. - CNBC

Elon Musk’s Terafab chip factory in Texas could cost up to $119 billion, filing shows - CNBC

Musk testified Tesla lacks AGI plans, contradicting prior claims, as xAI loses 11 co-founders and 80 staff after SpaceX $250B acquisition. - Electrek

US prosecutors identify Thailand's OBON Corp. as Company-1 in $2.5bn Supermicro indictment for smuggling Nvidia servers to China. - TNW | Nvidia

Nvidia’s MRC: ‘Just Ethernet’ isn’t enough for gigascale AI - SiliconANGLE

Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, ASRock project 22%-37% drops in 2026 motherboard sales amid AI-driven shortages. - Tom's Hardware

Skynet stress test: IMF warns AI will supercharge cyberattacks on global financial system. - Decrypt

Global cyberwarfare ramps up amid Iran conflict, AI advances. - TechRadar

Rogue AI might be getting smart enough to hack all the cloud infrastructure and replicate itself. - the Guardian

Back to paper yearbooks: UK NCA and child safety experts recommend UK schools remove pupils' photos from websites as sextortion reports rise 34% to 394. - the Guardian

Go inside and puree grandma: Security researcher Andreas Makris remotely hacks Yarbo lawn mowers from 6,000 miles away, seizing control of 200-pound bladed robots. - The Verge

Happiest panopticon on Earth: Disneyland deploys facial recognition technology to scan visitors entering the park. - WIRED

Cloudflare plans to cut more than 1,100 jobs, one-fifth of workforce, to accelerate shift to AI-first model. - Bloomberg

Engineers are worried that they're building AI tools that will let bosses lay off their coworkers. - Business Insider

Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti prioritizes team velocity metrics over individual AI usage tracking used by JPMorgan and Meta. - Business Insider

Gen AI can’t beat markets. - Bloomberg

Humans still matter more than AI in finance - Financial Times

Ex-Hedge Fund Adviser Bets on AI-Backed Consultancy for Rich - Yahoo

Maryland homeowners to pay $1.6 billion extra on electric bills over next decade for data center grid costs, state agency says. - Bloomberg

Apple's incoming CEO John Ternus states company leverages AI for products and user experiences, not standalone technology. - 9to5Mac

Apple testers use AirPods prototypes with cameras for AI visual queries in design validation stage near production. - The Verge

Apple develops compact AI-powered 'AI Pin' wearable sized like AirTag for late 2026 launch, acting as iPhone's eyes and ears with dual cameras and mics. - Geeky Gadgets

Waymo and Wayve launch autonomous vehicle services in London, contrasting sensors and maps with end-to-end AI. - Bloomberg

Humanoid Robots to Drive Next Leg of China Export Dominance - Bloomberg

Khosla-backed startup Genesis AI demos robotic hands with dexterity - YouTube

Pitchforks coming to a data center near you: Anti-AI populist backlash includes protests against data centers and violent threats against leaders like Sam Altman. - The New York Times

Judge rejects DOGE humanities grant cuts, saying the ChatGPT prompts used were ill-defined and unconstitutionally focused on race and other protected characteristics. - Bloomberg

Singularity Barbie: Lawmakers push for bans on AI-powered kids' toys over concerns they disrupt make-believe play and bedtime stories. - WIRED

Got any…best practices for playing God? Tech companies increasingly consult faith leaders for guidance on developing ethical AI. - The Washington Post

need an instruction book for creating new forms of intelligence

Art party: The AI Psychosis Summit - Reason.com

Google to launch Fitbit Air with $10/month AI health coach - TechCrunch

Clippy walked so Perplexity could run, making Personal Computer AI assistant available to all Mac users beyond Max subscribers. - Engadget

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