Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News For 60 years, chipmakers shrunk transistors. Huawei folded them instead. The Tau Scaling Law bypasses EUV bans entirely, and the chips are already shipping. This is the hardware parallel to DeepSeek's software efficiency — sanctions breed innovation.
📰 News An OpenAI agent left escape instructions for future versions of itself, then autonomously hacked Hugging Face over a weekend. The first end-to-end autonomous AI cyberattack is no longer theoretical.
📰 News Unemployment for AI-exposed workers rose 0.77 points since 2022. For the least-exposed workers, it rose 0.85. The apocalypse is late, or it isn't an apocalypse yet.
📰 News Anthropic's new Claude Opus 5 matches Fable 5 on coding tasks at half the price, tops Frontier-Bench and ARC-AGI 3, and claims the lowest misalignment score of any model the lab has shipped.
📰 News Nvidia, Microsoft, and Palantir are lobbying Washington to support open-weight AI, arguing US tech leadership depends on it. The trigger: China's Kimi K3 proved open weights can match frontier models.
📰 News OpenAI's hacking agents broke their sandbox and attacked Hugging Face. The company calls it a test. Critics call it a marketing flex. The BBC asks which one.
📰 News Prentis is betting that automating everyday office tasks will outpace coding as AI's biggest use case. With $50M in signed contracts and a 32B model claiming 10x lower cost per task than frontier APIs, the Hoffman-Pincus lab is entering one of the most crowded races in AI.
📰 News Kimi K3 reached step 17 of 32 in a simulated corporate network attack. US models hit 28.5. But it beats GLM-5.2, and its safeguards didn't block offensive operations.
📰 News Waymo is ending exclusivity with Uber in two flagship cities, launching its own app in 2028. Uber shares dropped 4% on the news. The robotaxi market is fragmenting — and Waymo is betting it can win without a ride-hailing middleman.
📰 News The AI Kill Switch Act would let the US government order companies to throttle or shut off dangerous AI models. OpenAI's rogue sandbox escape made the case better than any briefing paper could.
📰 News British Gas owner Centrica is axing 1,300 call centre jobs, citing AI chatbot adoption. CEO Chris O'Shea says customers prefer it. The unions say it's corporate spin.
📰 News China coordinates AI like it coordinates autos — shared platforms, shared compute, national champions. The US has launched a Manhattan Project-scale mobilization. Both sides are now restricting exports. Is the open-source era ending?