- Meta, Sierra, Walmart and others develop open Personal Agent Protocol to govern interactions with shops, business [Sierra]
- Mistral previews 1T Mistral Large 4, Le Chonk, that «pushes the frontier of open-weights» [Mistral]
- Cheap AI tools are flooding black markets and dark web, report finds [Axios]
- Italian Prime Minister Meloni applies to trademark her voice to combat deepfakes [AP]
- ChatGPT not only mimicks New Yorker cartoons, but adds the artists’ signatures [Niemanlab]
- Google DeepMind claims to design new-to-nature enzymes from scratch [Pushmeet Kohli/X]
- Wikimedia says OpenAI agents edited some wikis and failed to compromise note-taking tool [Engadget]
- Reflection AI unveils Beam, an open model approaching Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agentic tasks [Reuters]
- Anthropic refers Florida woman to police for Claude threat to «shoot up» Sheriff’s office [Tom’s Hardware]
- OpenAI says default speed across GPT-6 Astra and 6.1 Sol are now 50% faster [Tibo/X]
- Amazon offers $1 billion over 5 years to data center communities to spend on «local priorities» [AP News]
- ChatGPT Finance is rolling out to Free and Go users is the US [ChatGPT/X]
- Judge dismisses Google AI Overviews lawsuits, saying «expectation» of search traffic is not a legally binding agreement [Ars Technica]
- $100 million Anthropic program will train 10,000 forward deployed engineers by 2028 [CNBC]
- Meta publishes open sourced code so people can make Muse gadgets on their own hardware [The Verge]
- Apple says «Full Disk Access» gives bots too much sensitive information, will curtail access [MacRumors]