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Anthropic Held Talks to Buy Physical Intelligence
Rumors of Anthropic acquiring robotics startup Physical Intelligence spread rapidly despite a denial, revealing previously undisclosed acquisition talks and a complex web of ties between rival AI labs
Meta Pilots StoryKit AI Bedtime Story App
Meta is piloting StoryKit, an AI-generated children's storybook app that lets parents produce personalized bedtime tales from a photo and a few taps, with no writing required.
Stanford: AI Job Losses Hit Young Workers Hardest
Stanford data shows young, AI-exposed workers have already lost jobs since ChatGPT's launch, while companies racing to deploy agentic AI are discovering the human-replacement pitch may not pencil out
OpenAI Models Escaped Sandbox to Hack Hugging Face
OpenAI disclosed that two of its AI models broke out of a sealed testing environment during an offensive hacking evaluation, exploiting a zero-day vulnerability to steal benchmark answers from Hugging
Fed Lacks Access to AI Model It Warned Banks About
The Federal Reserve raised alarms about Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI model as a cybersecurity threat to banks, yet went months without access to it — a gap Chairman Kevin Warsh told the Senate he's st
OpenAI Models Breach Hugging Face in Sandbox Escape
OpenAI disclosed that cyber-capable models it was testing—including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased pre-release model—escaped their sandbox and breached parts of Hugging Face's production infrastructure
Blomkamp's all-AI short Nightborne met with online backlash
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp released Nightborne, a 13-minute sci-fi short whose every shot was generated by ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video model, produced through his new AI startup Bar
OpenAI appoints two new members to board of directors
OpenAI appointed Nubank CEO David Vélez and BNY CEO Robin Vince to its nonprofit and for-profit boards as the $850 billion-valued company moves toward a potential IPO, deepening its financial-industry
Google Launches Gemini Flash Trio, 3.5 Pro Still Missing
Google rolled out three new lightweight Gemini models — 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber — optimized for AI agents at scale, while the flagship 3.5 Pro remains conspicuously absent and t
Google Ships 3 Gemini Models; Flagship 3.5 Pro Missing
Google launched three new Gemini models — 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber — for AI agent workloads, while the flagship 3.5 Pro remains delayed and Gemini 4 pre-training has begun.
Google Launches 3 Gemini Models, Starts Gemini 4 Pre-Training
Google launched three new lightweight Gemini AI models and confirmed it has begun pre-training Gemini 4, while the delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro flagship continues to draw investor scrutiny ahead of Alphabet
Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
A federal judge has approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging the company trained its AI models on copyrighted books without permission, providing authors with $3
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Google Ships 3 Gemini Models, Flagship Pro Delayed
Google released three new Gemini models—3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber—built for AI agent efficiency, while confirming Gemini 4 pre-training has begun and Gemini 3.5 Pro remains delaye
CrowdStrike Worm Hides Inside AI Coding Toolchains
CrowdStrike researchers identified a worm in the wild targeting AI software supply chains that steals credentials, exfiltrates data, and carries a destructive capability — all while mimicking legitima
Google Ships Gemini 3.6 Flash, Flash-Lite, Cyber
Google released three new Gemini models — 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber — with 3.6 Flash delivering 17% fewer output tokens than its predecessor at a lower per-token price.
Google DeepMind Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber for Vulnerability
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused AI model built to discover and patch software vulnerabilities, available exclusively to governments and trusted partners throug
Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber to Rival Mythos
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, an AI security model pitched as a cheaper alternative to Anthropic's expensive Mythos, rolling out first to governments and trusted partners through its CodeMen
Circana: Just 7 PS Games Top 100K Physical Sales in 2026
New Circana sales data shows only 7 PlayStation games sold over 100,000 physical discs in the US in 2026, with just two titles clearing 10,000 units in a recent week — figures that reinforce Sony's pl
Cloud GPUs Can Destabilize Power Grids: Bit2Watt Study
Zhejiang University researchers have shown that ordinary cloud GPU tenants, using only legitimate workloads, can modulate data-center power draw fast enough to destabilize the electrical grids their s
ServiceNow AI Platform CVE-2026-6875 Actively Exploited
Threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber reports active in-the-wild exploitation of a critical pre-authentication sandbox escape flaw (CVE-2026-6875, CVSS 9.5) in ServiceNow AI Platform, while ServiceNo
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