Army of One Million Bots: Pentagon staff create over 103,000 AI agents in under five weeks, deploying 20,000 weekly to handle 25,000 daily sessions. - TechRadar

A.I. Is a National Security Risk. We Aren’t Doing Nearly Enough. - The New York Times

Side eye from Five Eyes, as agencies release guidance warning agentic AI expands attack surfaces and urging careful adoption with 23 risks listed. - The Register

Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman “will be the most hated men in America” - CNBC

Source: OpenAI has raised over $4B at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture to help businesses adopt OpenAI tools - Bloomberg

A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition - Business Insider

OpenAI opens ChatGPT subscriptions to OpenClaw's 3.2M users, while Anthropic blocks all subscription tiers - TNW | Insider

Anthropic finalizes $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and General Atlantic to deploy Claude in private equity portfolios. - TNW | Anthropic

Anthropic's Claude Code drives revenue growth faster than Zoom's pandemic surge and Google's early 2000s. - The Atlantic

AI firms expand rapidly but profits remain scarce. - The New Yorker

AI firms subsidize partners' adoption…crafty customer acquisition or bubble dynamics? - The Wall Street Journal

AIMA survey shows 95% of hedge funds managing $788 billion use AI for research and document analysis. - Financial Times

Kepler indexes 26 million SEC filings across 14,000 companies using Claude models for verifiable financial AI at 94% accuracy. - Claude

The question is not whether AI agents will act beyond their instructions, but what happens when they do. - TechRadar

who cleans up the mess, who takes the fall

Glut of low-quality junk data from AI firms degrades physical AI models, contributing to OpenAI sunsetting Sora. - Yahoo Tech

DeepClaude open-source tool enables Claude Code agent loops with DeepSeek V4 Pro at $0.87/M output tokens versus Anthropic's $15/M, saving 60-90% costs. - GitHub

Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount - Financial Times

The Rise of Emotional Surveillance - The Atlantic

Netradyne's AI cameras monitoring bus and truck drivers said to reduce accidents by 70-80% within 12 months based on 1.5 billion miles from 225,000 drivers. - Tech in Asia

Recruiters use AI tools to handle doubled job applications from AI-generated CVs since 2022. - Financial Times

Smokey: Only you and AI can prevent forest fires. AI cameras detected early smoke from Arizona's Diamond Fire, enabling containment to 7 acres as utilities expand use of AI across Western US. - SFGate

YouTube removes 16 of top 100 low-quality AI channels and expands deepfake detection to Partner Program creators, politicians, journalists. - Digiday

A look at Atlassian's and Twilio's earnings beats: early signs of success for Atlassian's Rovo AI and Twilio becoming a picks-and-shovels layer for AI agents - SaaStr

AI in practice: Startups deploy AI agents with names like Lisa and Dan for 24/7 operations, boosting ClickMechanic revenue 76% while limiting headcount growth. - Financial Times

Google DeepMind's AI Co-clinician achieves zero critical errors in 97/98 primary care queries and matches or exceeds human doctors in 68/140 consultation areas. - Geeky Gadgets

AI for early cancer detection - The Wall Street Journal

Radiologists still rich, Geoff Hinton still wrong. U.S. radiologist salaries reach $571,000 in 2025, up 9% year-over-year amid shortages, defying Geoffrey Hinton's 2016 AI replacement prediction. - Yahoo

Experts forecast billion-token AI contexts by 2030 via Nvidia's Rubin CPX GPUs and algorithmic advances. - Interactions ACM

Microsoft releases open-source MarkItDown utility to convert PDFs, Word, Excel, images, audio, HTML into Markdown for AI pipelines. - Hacker Noon

Nous Research's Hermes Agent reaches 100,000 GitHub stars in 10 weeks, spurring four community-built GUIs. - Decrypt

Hybrid AI combines classical machine learning for pattern detection and generative AI for insights to overcome AIOps limitations. - TechRadar

Leaked iOS AI camera features include real-time object recognition, document scanning, text translation, and business card contact extraction. - Geeky Gadgets

Robot has its hand out for big money: Beijing-based robot-hand unicorn Linkerbot targets $6bn valuation after closing $3bn Series B+ round. - TNW | Robots

Humanoid robots endure 5,000 steps per hour with 2-3x body weight shocks using back-drivable actuators. - FIRGELLI

Dog barks warily at Unitree Go2 AIR quadruped robot in London park. - The Standard

KC Green accuses AI startup Artisan of stealing 'This is fine' meme artwork for subway ad. - TechCrunch

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Hired a Human Artist to Create the Film’s AI-Generated Meme: ‘It Was Nothing But Fun’ - Variety

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