Elon Musk has accused Microsoft of aiding and abetting OpenAI as the lab abandoned its founding contract as a nonprofit. His lawyers have submitted evidence that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella played a role in Sam Altman's efforts to return to OpenAI just five days after he was ousted as CEO. This was aimed at demonstrating Microsoft's significant control over OpenAI. Microsoft had earlier claimed that it should not have been drawn into the legal squabble between Musk and OpenAI.

Screenshots of a revised user interface showing a model card for Google's upcoming Gemini Omni video model were posted on Reddit over the weekend. Early user testing indicates the model has impressive prompt adherence, but video generation burned through credits quickly. Omni will likely be shipped in tiered variants (Flash and Pro).

Figure has released a new video showing two robots performing household tasks in a coordinated bedroom-cleaning demonstration. The video (available in the article) highlights advances in humanoid collaboration, object handling, and domestic automation. Figure claims to have increased Figure O3 humanoid production from one robot daily to one hourly at its BotQ production facility in California.

A criminal hacking group recently attempted to launch a widespread cyberattack using a previously unknown bug in a popular open-source web-based system administration tool. There is strong evidence that the actor likely leveraged an AI model to support the discovery and weaponization of the vulnerability. The software maker was notified quickly enough to allow for a patch before the attack could do damage. This is the first known example of a zero-day bug being put to malicious use by hackers enabled chiefly by AI.

84 TanStack npm packages have been compromised in an ongoing supply-chain attack. Several of these packages have over 12 million weekly downloads, making the compromise especially significant from a software supply-chain perspective. TanStack has deprecated the affected versions, engaged npm security to pull the malicious tarballs, purged GitHub Actions cache entries, and merged hardening changes to restructure the affected workflow, add repository-owner guards, and pin third-party action references. A list of recommended actions for affected systems is available in the article.

Claude Platform is now generally available on AWS. The new service gives customers direct access to Anthropic's native Claude Platform experience through an AWS account. It allows users to work on the same APIs, features, and console experience available through Anthropic directly, but on AWS. Claude Platform on AWS is operated by Anthropic, and the underlying requests and data are processed outside the AWS security boundary.

The most important aspect for agentic inference is memory. Agents need context, state, and history, which requires a memory hierarchy wrapped around a model. This implies a necessary trade-off of speed for capacity, but agentic tasks don't really need to be that fast if a human isn't involved.

Scott Wu is the founder and CEO of Cognition, an AI agent coding lab and one of the fastest-growing companies of any kind in history. He is also known for his math prowess: Wu is the greatest American gold-medalist of all time at the International Olympiad in Informatics. His career began when he was just in second grade, when he competed in a middle-school math competition at just seven years old. This article contains an interview with Wu where he discusses his early childhood and life, AI, Cognition, humanity, his fears, and more.

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Every technology shift changes the dominant architecture, and often the languages and platforms, that are employed.

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GitLab plans to reinvest most of the money it is saving on wages back into its business.

Future businesses will have to compete with AI lab-owned firms, where every knowledge-intensive function has been replaced by AI.

While Mythos can discover vulnerabilities, it does not seem to perform any better than other already existing and readily available tools.

Other additions in the 26.5 releases are new Pride-themed wallpapers and some of the initial work needed to support ads in the Apple Maps app.