Anthropic says Claude now writes most of its own codebase and calls it a path toward recursive self-improvement. The same day, the people racing to build that capability asked Congress to fence in synthetic DNA, the NSA put Anthropic engineers inside its offensive cyber operations, and a House bill tried to take AI rules away from the states. Underneath all of it: TSMC says it can't make enough chips for years, France just bought ten gigawatts of compute, and Amazon engineers stood up in a Seattle council chamber to ask why $200 billion goes to data centers while 30,000 of their colleagues get cut.

• Anthropic: Claude is accelerating AI development
• The Verge: AI leaders' open letter to Congress on synthetic DNA screening
• Financial Times: Anthropic engineers embedded at the NSA
• Politico: House bipartisan AI bill and state preemption fight
• The Verge: TSMC says it can't keep up with AI chip demand
• France secures more than €110B in AI and data-center investment
• CNBC: Amazon engineers testify against Seattle data centers amid layoffs
• Generalist's robotics raise and NVIDIA's open Nemotron 3 Ultra