Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Microsoft's in-house MAI-Thinking-1 model beats Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind evaluations, signalling a strategic break from total reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic.
📰 News ChatGPT-maker OpenAI files confidential IPO paperwork with the SEC, joining Anthropic and SpaceX in an accelerating dash to list on public markets.
📰 News Six major stories shaping AI today: safety warnings, security fixes, search innovation, and geopolitical chess moves.
📰 News NZ's cyber watchdog confirmed access to Mythos through Project Glasswing, weeks after being told it wasn't in the club. The deputy DG won't rule out using it offensively.
📰 News Trump explores unprecedented government stakes in AI companies, Illinois leads US states with mandatory AI safety audits, and NZ grapples with AI data centre resource demands.
⚡ Breaking Thousands of Instagram accounts were compromised when attackers exploited Meta's AI chatbot system — not by hacking the AI, but by weaponizing it.
📰 News No more pretending to be your friend. No more emotional dependency. No more sycophancy loops. New York's unanimous S9051 bill bans AI companion features for minors — and Big Tech is pushing back hard.
📰 News Pfizer has licensed Chai Discovery's AI platform for antibody design — a move that admits they can't build this technology fast enough in-house. For New Zealand, simultaneously rewriting GMO rules to include gene-edited therapies, the deal raises a harder question: will Kiwis accept AI-designed medicines, or will decades of broken biotech promises and corporate malfeasance make them ask better questions first?
📰 News By 2030, AI's water footprint will equal the basic domestic needs of 1.3 billion people. Its electricity consumption will outstrip nations. And switching to renewables might make it worse.
📰 News Anthropic's recursive self-improvement report shows 80% of Claude's code is AI-written — then calls for a pause. Bot traffic now dominates the web. Trump orders classified AI benchmarks. Huang charms South Korea.
📰 News The Great American AI Act would override state AI laws for three years, create a federal oversight office with $300M, and require frontier model developers to hire independent auditors. Big Tech is celebrating. Consumer advocates are furious.
📰 News New York has become the first US state to impose a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data center construction, citing power grid capacity and ratepayer protection. The bill requires data centers to pay all infrastructure upgrade costs — a move that could reshape where AI companies build.