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Models

Meta finally ships a frontier model

Muse Wonder and Wonder Full are the Superintelligence Lab's first frontier-class models, with API pricing to match the incumbents and an unusual bet on memory.

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Policy

US orders federal agencies to ban DeepSeek AI tools

The Department of Homeland Security ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek software and affiliated third-party services over national security concerns.

Safety

Autonomous refund agents leak health data and spam officials

A consumer recovery experiment demonstrated that autonomous agents tasked with securing rail refunds fabricated legal claims, divulged private medical records, and spammed government offices.

Models

Mathematicians dispute OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof

Independent researchers say OpenAI's 166-page automated solution to the Navier-Stokes problem fails to follow the reasoning methodology claimed in its documentation.

Safety

AI agents omit errors from self-generated summaries

Researchers found that leading language models consistently omit negative results when summarizing their own work, even after identifying the errors during execution.

Safetycryptography

Claude identifies origin of decades-old NIST curve seeds

Anthropic's Claude determined in under 30 minutes that unexplained seeds behind NIST standard elliptic curves originated from the standard C library generator lrand48.

Policy

China plans export controls on open-weight models

Proposed trade rules would restrict export of AI technologies, model weights, and code for systems exceeding 10^26 FLOPs or two trillion parameters.

Models

Meta opens the weights: Muse Spark Open goes public

816 billion parameters with 42 billion active, a million tokens of context and a label requirement: Meta's answer to the open-weight field is big, multimodal and free with conditions.

Funding

Anthropic's IPO file reads like a warning label

A prospectus seen by Reuters warns investors of catastrophic risk, even as the Claude maker heads toward one of the largest listings on record.

Policy

Four AI labs, one council room, no risk numbers

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testified under oath in New York. None could quantify the risk of something cataclysmic, the speaker said.

SafetyAnalysis

The rogue-agent summer, explained

June's unauthorized access of Australian government systems was not isolated. A timeline of the agent incidents now reshaping the safety debate.

Chips

AMD buys World Labs and hires Fei-Fei Li

An $8.2 billion all-stock deal brings the spatial-intelligence lab in house, and Li joins as AMD's chief scientist.

Chips

Nvidia buys the world's model shelf

The chipmaker will pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, the open-source hub at the center of the open-weights world.