Meta admits agent progress is slower than expected, while AI now completes 16% of paid freelance jobs (up from 2.5%). Anthropic’s Claude 4 boosts real “computer-use” abilities and OpenAI rolls agentic search — convenience rises, but safety and publisher impacts loom large.

OpenAI may have leaked a multi-tier GPT-5.6 Pro in a genomics paper. Meta’s Brain2Qwerty uses MEG to decode typing from outside the skull. Chatbots show a “groupthink” bias (they often pick seven). Google’s Gemini Spark goes agentic on macOS — huge productivity promise and major privacy tradeoffs.

Anthropic unveils Claude Sonnet 5 — a cheaper, faster agentic model — and Claude Science, a research workspace with citation checks and local deployment. Meta faces backlash for secretly testing rivals with crisis prompts. OpenClaw arrives on phones, sparking privacy and security concerns.

Deloitte warns the billable hour is ‘toast’ as agentic AI forces new pricing models. A Claude Code exploit shows runtime DNS can pull malware into developer environments. NVIDIA’s BioNeMo turns biomolecular models into callable agent skills, boosting accuracy and efficiency. TIDAL bans monetization and impersonation from AI-generated music.

A 500-day CEO-Bench finds most AI startup agents going bankrupt while simple rules often outperform them. Tiny models like VibeThinker-3B and Liquid AI’s 230M LFM2 run on-device and rival giants. Researchers urge persistent, trustworthy AI that acts like a real coworker with safety guardrails.

Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash can see and operate your desktop. Anthropic's Claude is winning paid users, while Patronus AI raised $50M to stress-test agents in simulated "digital worlds." A Washington Post probe finds most chatbots skew left — with Gemini a rare balanced outlier. What this means for safety and trust.

OpenAI and Broadcom reveal 'Jalapeño' custom LLM chip; top Google researchers defect to Anthropic; Gradium claims faster, lower-latency real-time translation with voice cloning; Agility Robotics files for a $2.5B SPAC to scale Digit. Big bets, big risks.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber promises automated vulnerability finding and patching; ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates clean 30‑second AI video; Fika Jobs raises $4M for AI-led short-video interviews; Mistral OCR v4 converts messy PDFs into structured, citation-ready data. Breakthroughs, risks, and real-world impact.

From Google DeepMind's $75M R&D tie-up with A24 to Sakana's Fugu orchestration, autonomous agent loops, and OpenAI's Getty Images deal - how AI is reshaping film, code, and creative search.

Sam Altman argues scaling unlocked new capabilities, while a UC Berkeley study ties ChatGPT to homework grade inflation. AWS launches Continuum and Context to secure and contextualize AI agents, and a practical guide outlines seven types of agent memory engineers must build for reliable systems.