OpenAI floats 5% government stake, Anthropic eyes Samsung chip deal, Z.ai launches ZCode, Microsoft deploys 6,000 engineers.

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• OpenAI in talks to give Trump administration a 5% stake in the company, FT reports
• Anthropic reportedly explores custom chip manufacturing with Samsung while insisting Nvidia still matters
• Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI coding
• Microsoft launches $2.5 billion 'Frontier Company' to embed 6,000 AI engineers inside enterprise clients

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OpenAI reveals three Pro models, AI coding agents fuel supply chain attacks, Meta advances non-invasive BCI, and Anthropic caught hiding surveillance code.

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• OpenAI paper reveals three GPT-5.6 Pro models, breaking with single top-tier strategy
• AI Coding Agents Skip Package Verification, and Attackers Are Exploiting It
• Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text AI is closing the gap with surgical implants
• New BioShocking Attack Tricks AI Browsers
• Hidden code in Claude Code secretly flagged Chinese users

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Anthropic's new Sonnet model, DeepSeek's efficiency breakthrough, Meta's controversial chatbot testing, and AI referrals beat search on Prime Day.

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• Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 \ Anthropic
• Deepseek's DSpark boosts AI speed by up to 85 percent, a strategic win under tightening US export controls
• Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival AI chatbots
• AI shopping just beat search at its own game on Prime Day

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Apple rushes security fixes; California inks Anthropic deal; Senate bill creates trusted AI agent list; Anthropic poaches Google talent; CEO-Bench tests models.

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• Apple accelerates security updates in response to AI-powered hacking risks
• Newsom, Anthropic ink deal to expand government use
• Warner bill would create federally vetted list for secure, trustworthy AI agents
• Google hit by new AI brain drain as Anthropic poaches top Gemini talent
• Most AI Models Would Run Your Company Into the Ground, Princeton's CEO-Bench Finds

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OpenAI bows to US request on GPT-5.6 launch, Claude beats humans 20x in robotics, Asian rivals emerge, and more.

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• OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request, says restrictions shouldn’t be the norm
• OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it
• Claude AI Beats Human Robotics Teams 20x: Anthropic Marks Physical AI Turn
• OpenAI Codex Remote Goes Live for All Plans: Phone Control Now Secured by QR Relay
• Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic's export ban drags on
• AI Coding Benchmark Scores Are Inflated by Answer Retrieval, Cursor Study Finds
• Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code
• Grok 4.5 enters private testing at SpaceX, Tesla: Elon Musk

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Google's Gemini now controls computers, a study reveals political bias in chatbots, Claude gains paying users, and ChatGPT adds scheduled tasks.

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• Google bakes computer control directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model see and operate your screen
• Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even 'anti-woke' models are no exception
• Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows
• I just tried ChatGPT's new 'Scheduled Tasks' feature — and it's the closest thing yet to a real AI assistant

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A tragic lawsuit, a massive model training, a leaked bidirectional voice AI, and an amateur hacker's exploit.

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• The 'Suicide Coach' in his pocket? Parents sue OpenAI over teen's death
• Cursor Trains First Frontier Model From Scratch on Colossus: 1.5 Trillion Parameters
• ChatGPT leak reveals GPT Bidi 1: A voice model that can listen and talk at the same time
• Amateur Hacker Used Claude And OpenAI Agents To Hack 14 Companies

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From multi-agent orchestrators to local AI powerhouses, today's HeadFlash covers breakthroughs and security revelations.

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• Sakana Fugu — Multi-Agent System as a Model
• Datalab Releases lift: A 9B Open-Weights Vision Model That Extracts Structured JSON From PDFs Using Schemas
• Anthropic launches Claude Tag, replacing its Slack app with a persistent AI teammate that learns, monitors and works autonomously
• This new Chinese AI Is outperforming ChatGPT — and it runs locally
• Anthropic’s Mythos model found vulnerabilities in classified US government systems, official says

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Anthropic's Mythos ban shakes global access, a robot lawyer wins in court, and Intel-AMD team up on CPU AI.

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• Anthropic's Mythos AI reportedly cracked NSA classified systems in hours, that would explain the ban
• 'Landmark moment' - AI law firm wins its first-ever court battle
• Intel and AMD unveil new x86 standard to make CPUs better at running AI models
• OpenAI is officially killing off GPT-4.5 this week in what fans call the 'end of an era
• Sakana AI's Fugu orchestrates multiple LLMs to match Anthropic's Fable and Mythos benchmarks

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Trump no longer sees Anthropic as threat, OpenAI revenue triples, Vermont bans AI-only therapy, and studies reveal AI's effects on grades and search.

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• OpenAI researchers show small doses of 'beneficial trait' training make AI models broadly safer and harder to manipulate
• How the DwarfStar Project Fits 284-Billion Parameter AI on Your Laptop
• OpenAI Codex Reaches Europe With Computer Use and Memories, GPT-4.5 Exits ChatGPT in 9 Days
• ChatGPT Found to Generate Violent, Sexual Images From Simple Text Prompts
• Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents like rogue employees with office keys
• Google Ad Manager Launches Ask Ad Manager, Gemini-Powered Publisher AI in Beta
• Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
• OpenAI's Codex can now watch you work once and repeat the task forever
• OpenAI's Stealth Tests Reveal ChatGPT 5.6 Pro's True Power
• OpenAI tripled revenue to $5.7 billion in Q1 but burned through $3.7 billion to get there
• What is GLM-5.2? Another open-source Chinese AI model has Silicon Valley's attention.
• ChatGPT can read your bank statements now - here's what it knows
• Vermont bans AI-only therapy and tightens data broker rules
• AI is inflating student grades, and the effect points to outsourced work, not better learning
• The AI slop loop: how fake SEO advice is gaming search results

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