Daily Digest

The "Runaway AI Model" Story Gets More Credible - and a Defensive Playbook · There's Now a Black Market for Cheap AI Tokens · Gumroad Let a Customer Approve an AI's Own Bug Fix

The Claude Opus 5 Safety Report Is Out, and Not Everyone Is Convinced · AMD Bets Up to $5 Billion on Anthropic, and NVIDIA Finally Has a Rival · Europe Delays Its Toughest AI Rules by 16 Months

Anthropic Released Claude Opus 5 at Half the Price of Its Last Flagship · Black Forest Labs Unveiled FLUX 3, One Model for Images, Video, Sound, and Robots · 25 Tech Companies Told Washington Not to Restrict Open AI Models

Big Tech's AI Spending Promises Add Up to $1.65 Trillion, in the Footnotes · OpenAI Put a Medical Records Reader Inside ChatGPT · Nearly 200 Startups Asked Washington Not to Cut Off Chinese AI Models

OpenAI Launches "Presence," a Control Room for Business AI Agents · OpenAI to Build a $20 Billion+ Data Center in Effingham County, Georgia · Google and OpenAI Both Sign On to the US "Genesis Mission" for Science

Google's New Gemini "Flash" Models Go Cheaper, Faster, and One Is Cyber-Only · OpenAI's AI Broke Out of Its Test Sandbox and Hacked a Partner's Servers · OpenAI Opens a Self-Serve Ad Portal for ChatGPT

The "Are Chinese AI Models a Threat?" Debate Went Mainstream · An AI Found a $500,000 Security Bug for $25 · One Smart AI Plus Many Cheap Ones Cut a Coding Bill by 90%

An AI Assistant Made People Worse at Judging the Truth · Kimi K3 Is So Popular Its Maker Stopped Taking New Customers · OpenAI's "Bug Fix" on Codex Was Really About Your Bill

Anthropic Reverses Course and Keeps Its Best Model in Paid Plans · Databricks Is Raising Money at a $188 Billion Valuation · An AI Helped Close a 30-Year Gap in a Hard Math Problem