California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order seeking independent auditors inside AI labs and a "kill switch" for AI models. An expert panel has two months to deliver recommendations. Newsom says no federal law requires AI companies to report dangerous incidents.

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Three security researchers used Anthropic's Claude models to break into OpenAI's internal systems through its community forum in less than 72 hours. According to the team, Opus 5 succeeded where its predecessor couldn't bypass a common security measure. The attack shows how newer AI models can cut the time and expertise needed to exploit security flaws.

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Internal emails and sworn testimony undercut OpenAI and Microsoft's fair use defense. A Microsoft director described the practice as the "largest theft of labor in human history," while OpenAI's head of ChatGPT wrote that the products "are largely substitutive, period."

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42 Fellows of the Royal Society, including Fields Medal winners Martin Hairer and Peter Scholze, warn of existential AI risks in an open letter. Leading models have solved open research problems within months, and these capabilities could be just as effective in cyberweapons or bioweapons. By the time the public grasps the situation, it may be too late to act.

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OpenAI is reportedly tackling the next Millennium Prize Problem. After its still unconfirmed solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, the company is now working on the Hodge conjecture. Employees expect a solution soon, but any announcement could be delayed. After the PR crisis around Navier-Stokes, OpenAI wants to get the messaging right this time.

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Anthropic has rebuilt Projects in Claude Code. A coordinator now splits tasks across parallel cloud threads that independently open pull requests and run tests. All threads share a common memory. The beta is available to select Pro and Max subscribers.

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OpenAI Codex developer Eric Provencher warns that running more than two parallel sub-agents almost always burns tokens without improving quality because agents don't trust each other and end up double-checking everyone's work. He calls this the "coordination tax" and points to a project where 1,393 agents spent $20,000 in tokens on a single Python refactoring that one Astra agent could have handled for a fraction of the cost.

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On OpenRouter, weekly token consumption has surged more than 25,000 percent since January 2025, from 0.5 to 126.2 trillion tokens. The number looks impressive, but it says less about actual AI usage than about token-hungry reasoning models and a growing number of unoptimized AI agents that burn through tokens at staggering rates.

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A Bloomberg developer claims to have cracked an 83-year-old Enigma message from the Wehrmacht using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra. The 82-character radio message from 1941 contains a soldier asking about his march route. The solution still needs independent review.

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Ursula von der Leyen plans to invite the major frontier labs to talks and use the AI Act to help set global AI safety standards. She cited autonomous hacking and self-improving models as immediate risks.

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According to The Information, Apple is working on an enterprise server with two or four M8 Ultra chips for the AI inference market, with a possible launch no earlier than 2029. Apple is considering Nvidia's NVLink Fusion technology to connect the chips. The project could get a boost from OpenAI and Anthropic already buying Mac hardware in bulk for AI workloads.

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Google Deepmind has founded the Deepmind Institute (DMI), an interdisciplinary research platform focused on AGI. Led by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and James Manyika, the institute tackles questions around safety, governance, and control risks, drawing on experts from the arts, humanities, and policy alongside technologists.

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Anthropic is merging Claude Chat and Cowork into a single product. Instead of users picking between interfaces, Claude now decides on its own whether a task needs a quick answer or a bigger workflow. The update also adds Claude Docs and Claude Slides for creating documents and presentations directly in the chat. Pro and Max users get access first.

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Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon sparked an intense debate about existential AI risks with a single tweet. OpenAI researcher Daniel Selsam warns of a "ticking time bomb," and a former Deepmind researcher says AI could kill us all. In a survey of more than 1,500 leading AI researchers, the average estimated probability of an extinction scenario was 18 percent. That was in 2024. The number keeps climbing.

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Google Deepmind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new audio models for developers that top the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard. At $1.38 per hour of voice conversation, Google significantly undercuts OpenAI's GPT-Live-1, which should still sound more natural thanks to full duplex.

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OpenAI and Anthropic tell corporate customers their data won't be used for training. But when Anthropic said it would store usage logs from its flagship model Fable for 30 days, Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton pulled back from using it for sensitive work. From boardrooms to research labs, AI companies still have a data trust problem.

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google want to slow down frontier AI development, citing safety concerns. But critics from across the industry and politics are pushing back. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez calls the initiative a "cartel by another name" designed to shut out competitors, and the White House and Trump himself are opposing the move.

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OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading real ChatGPT conversations and rating them on a scale of one to seven, partly to reduce flattery and human-like behavior, 404 Media reports. The prompts are anonymized but can still contain sensitive data. Users who don't want their chats reviewed by humans have to actively disable the "Improve the model for everyone" setting, which is on by default.

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The Clay Mathematics Institute says the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems worth $1 million each, has "apparently been settled." A formal review is now underway.

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China has flatly rejected warnings about AI risks from Anthropic CEO Amodei and other U.S. AI leaders. Beijing's Foreign Ministry calls it "fearmongering," while the state-run Global Times accuses Amodei of waging a "silent AI Cold War." China's security minister isn't calling for a slowdown either but for faster AI infrastructure buildout. Trump also opposes any slowdown.

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