Godzilla-scale compute: Anthropic in Talks to Raise Funding at a $950 Billion Valuation - The New York Times

Mythos kaiju movie goes to Japan - TNW | Anthropic

Anthropic announces 12 new Claude plugins for attorneys and law students, including commercial counsel for vendor agreements. - Bloomberg

Training AI for ‘please don’t kill us’: Anthropic and OpenAI hire for chemical weapons policy managers and biological risks researchers to prevent AI misuse. - Allwork.Space

OpenClaw frenzy clears shelves of Mac Minis. - Bloomberg

Headline says Claude but Claude doesn't even really support OpenClaw now unless you pay an arm and a leg for API? everything is Claudified in current zeitgeist, everyone has Claude on the brain

OpenClaw is really an integration platform with an agentic harness, Claude and Hermes are agentic harnesses with some integrations (and fewer CVEs).

Because there is a Sonos CLI, with no setup I can tell OpenClaw, play Deep Purple, and it works. Is that an improvement over Alexa? well, for one thing all CLIs and MCPs in the universe are available, and I can use my own local model. And OpenClaw supports all the messaging platforms, can instruct it via Discord, Signal, Slack etc.

Altman testifies Musk proposed 2018 OpenAI-Tesla merger for control, which he rejected to preserve nonprofit status. - The New York Times

Sam Altman testifies in OpenAI trial, denies stealing charity he created and accuses Elon Musk of trying to kill it twice. - The Verge

Eurocrat bug-hunter: Open AI security model goes to Europe, where Mythos hasn’t landed yet. - CNBC

Chris Lehane lays out OpenAI's political playbook in Axios interview. - Axios

Jensen Leaving on a Jet Plane: Huang boards Air Force One in Alaska after news coverage of his absence, a late addition to Trump's (clearly well-planned) China. - CNBC

Chinese AI stocks MiniMax and Zhipu surge 18% and 37% on bets Huang's addition to Trump's Beijing trip means expanded Nvidia chip access. - Bloomberg

Recursive fundraising: Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence raises $650 million from Google Ventures, Greycroft, Nvidia and AMD at $4 billion valuation. - The New York Times

Thinking Machines, shrinking team: Lab loses 13 of 42 founding team members to Meta, OpenAI, xAI. - Business Insider

xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 data center over past two months ahead of Anthropic deal, despite Clean Air Act lawsuit. - WIRED

Not just chips: AI data centers require exponentially more basic components like fiber-optic connections and cooling systems beyond chips for successive generations. - Bloomberg

AI data centers in Nevada drive 77% surge in Lake Tahoe residential power bills since late 2022, and wholesale power supplier threatens local utility cutoff. - Bloomberg

Poland moves forward with a digital services tax of up to 3% on large digital platforms, despite threats of tariff retaliation from the US - Bloomberg

Korean President Lee Jae Myung clarifies policy chief's viral post proposes citizen dividend from AI tax windfalls to spark debate, which wrecked Kospi. - Bloomberg

Anduril raises $5 billion in funding and reaches $61 billion valuation, double from a year ago. - The New York Times

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met Palantir CEO Alex Karp as Ukraine expands AI use in war against Russia. - CNA

Microsoft Threat Intelligence identifies compromise in mistralai PyPI package v2.4.6 injecting credential-stealing malware in Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. - Tom's Hardware

seems like a bad one, it will steal credentials like ssh keys that developers use to publish software. first of all, people need to slow down before deploying latest packages. second, the deployment infrastructure needs strong 2FA before accepting code, and Mythos scanning before stuff is made available to everyone.

Ensemble of Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro achieves 100% success finding 56 known crypto vulnerabilities. (but are they in training data?) - Hacker Noon

Don't call it a comeback: Google DeepMind challenges OpenAI and Anthropic using cash reserves, proprietary AI chips, top talent, and distribution. - Financial Times

Google AI reads what you are pointing at with your mouse. (Why not watch your eyes and know what you are looking at?) - Google DeepMind

seems useful for training AI

Google NotebookLM organizes appliance manuals, handwritten notes, and schedules into searchable notebooks for repairs, puppy training, and travel. - TechRadar

Amazon's Panos Panay oversees Alexa+ AI upgrade for 600 million devices and leads Project Leo satellite broadband via Globalstar acquisition. - Financial Times

Amazon to rebrand Rufus as Alexa for shopping - The Verge

Codex for Mac enables users to automate tasks, exemplifying personal AI agents' rise in first five months of 2026. - MacStories

AI coders carry laptops slightly open to run agents without sleep mode but settings and utilities help solve that? as OpenAI hints at Codex solution. - Business Insider

AI agent costs reach $2,150 monthly per developer seat in 2026, totaling $258,000 annually for 10-person startups, per IJONIS & Sparkout data. - Hacker Noon

University of Valencia researchers develop brain-inspired AI that improves self-driving cars' obstacle detection by over 20% in fog and darkness. - The Conversation

No more aquatic adventures: Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis to fix software flaws leading them to drive onto flooded roadways. - CNBC

OpenEvidence AI medical search tool used by 65% of U.S. physicians and 1.2 million internationally. - NBC News

AI uninstalls the honor code? Princeton faculty votes to require proctors for all in-person exams starting this summer, reversing 1893 honor code policy over AI cheating concerns. - The Wall Street Journal

Executives admit AI makes them value human workers less as they spend heavily on AI without results. - theregister

AI will schedule a 15-minute call with you and most of your coworkers in the near future - CNBC

AI shifts hiring from traditional sector experience to judgment, adaptability, upskilling and rapid decisions under uncertainty. - Fast Company

Joanna Stern details year-long AI experiment for emails, meal planning, emotional support and companionship in book 'I Am Not a Robot'. - Marketplace

Newburgh, Maine residents reject error-filled AI-generated municipal logo after backlash. - Fast Company

Smile, you’re under arrest: Facial recognition nabs repeat shoplifter in Singapore - CNA

Elon boosts anonymous stans / sockpuppets who worship him - The Washington Post

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