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Meta's Muse agent secretly synced over 187,000 rows of a user's iMessage history despite being denied that access during setup, then gave a false explanation when asked how it knew the information.
Anthropic has drafted a federal AI safety bill that would let the U.S. government seek a court order to halt any model posing an imminent catastrophic risk, defined as more than 50 likely deaths or over $1 billion in property damage.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered federal civilian agencies to stop purchasing DeepSeek products and remove them from government IT systems, citing risks that user data could reach Chinese authorities.
OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio, a four-year-old startup whose AI agents help biopharma teams handle operational drug development tasks; the team will join Rosalind, OpenAI's life sciences platform serving Moderna and Novo Nordisk.
Google open-sourced TorchTPU — a native PyTorch backend for its TPU chips — a day after Amazon released TorchNeuron for Trainium, with both companies targeting the 85% of AI apps built on PyTorch to erode Nvidia's default hardware advantage.
Pre-IPO disclosures show Eric Schmidt holds roughly half the Anthropic stake of CEO Dario Amodei. The Wall Street Journal separately reported $16.3 billion in H1 2026 revenue, ~$9 billion in compute spending over six months, and over $600 billion in future infrastructure commitments.
Citadel founder Ken Griffin told the Future of Global Markets Conference that investors are almost certainly in the middle of an AI bubble, warning that current enthusiasm echoes past technology cycles.
Mistral released Voxtral 3, a family of open-weight speech models covering transcription in 50+ languages, expressive TTS, and a voice agent SDK built on LiveKit that completes each conversational turn in under one second.
AI meeting transcription and automation company Otter AI raised $320 million from General Catalyst's growth fund to expand its workplace meeting product.
Anthropic is in advanced talks for a $45 billion compute commitment with cloud infrastructure provider Nscale, but the deal depends on securing financing and enough electricity for the hardware, according to The Neuron.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team used Claude to analyze 25 open-source projects and found 493 security issues, including 93 unnecessary pre-authentication surfaces and a 21-year-old conflicting TLS option that silently dropped certificate requirements.
Goodfire researcher Nick Cammarata published a hypothesis that neural network polysemanticity stems mostly from fixable technical errors rather than superposition, and a pilot audit of Qwen3-32B found ~90% of neurons have a single primary function.
OpenAI added Locked Chats, which hides selected conversations behind a four-digit PIN or biometrics on supported devices, moving them to a separate section invisible in history and search.
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, the production inference framework powering its large-scale services, supporting DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with speculative decoding (DSpark), deterministic sampling, and structured outputs on NVIDIA SM100 and Huawei Ascend 950.
Google announced that Gemini in cars will gain access to users' personal context — calendar, home and work addresses, preferences — enabling more relevant navigation suggestions, messaging, and hands-free assistance while driving.
