Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 has claimed the open-weights benchmark crown with a MIT-licensed 744B MoE model while the US Commerce Department holds off blacklisting DeepSeek despite a security committee recommendation, treating the threat as diplomatic leverage rather than an enforcement trigger. Midjourney, the AI image generation company, announced a full-body ultrasonic CT scanner that scans an entire body in 60 seconds for a few dollars — directly applying multimodal visual intelligence to the premium end of medical imaging. Anthropic opened its Seoul office with government and chaebol partnerships, while Gemini 3.5 Pro is expected in the next two weeks and will reset the frontier model comparison set.