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SpaceX closed a record $60B buyout of Cursor, GitHub named the cause of its second outage this month, Uber faces an €825M GDPR fine, and DeepSeek's new multimodal model claims to near Anthropic's Opus 4.8.

A compromised Rust crate ran a build-time payload on anyone who compiled it, Bun shipped the runtime AI agents rewrote, and Stripe closed its $7.5B OpenRouter deal.

Sam Altman tied OpenAI's AI slowdown to internal signs of misalignment as Anthropic answered with its own disclosures, an unreleased frontier model and a drug-discovery result, while it prepped voting-heavy shares for its founders.

Anthropic's revenue run rate hit $65B ahead of its IPO even as a major backer offloaded part of its stake under cash pressure, OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, and Meta ran ads for a deepfake nudify app that Apple pulled from the App Store.

OpenAI signed a 20-year, 10-gigawatt Ohio data center deal with Nvidia backing up to $105B of it, Stripe closed its $7B+ OpenRouter acquisition, and OpenAI disbanded its AI risk team the same week Anthropic ruled out a stronger internal model.

A federal lawsuit says a stepfather used Grok to generate 7,000+ CSAM images from one childhood photo, Congress is using AI chatbots with almost no oversight the same day Dario Amodei called for mandatory safety testing, and AI became a live issue in nearly 40% of US midterm races.

Anthropic told investors it's already generating $11.5B+ a quarter and projects $190B-200B by 2028 even as it raised its own misalignment risk estimate, Z.ai's GLM-5.3 edged past Anthropic's Mythos 5 on a cybersecurity benchmark, and a macOS zero-day was found under active exploitation.

SpaceX closed its $60B acquisition of Cursor to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in AI coding, Apple trained its own China-specific model with Alibaba's help, and the AI price war intensified with new open-weight models from Z.ai and Alibaba.

Anthropic's investors are eyeing a $2 trillion IPO valuation in October, Databricks closed $5B at $190B, and DeepSeek raised its own prices while open sourcing a Claude Code rival.

Google unveiled its full Pixel 11 lineup with a sign-language AI built in, xAI shipped Grok 4.6, and ChatGPT and Gemini both crossed 1 billion monthly users this week.

OpenAI launched a cyber defense model that completes 95% of exploit requests for vetted defenders, an unreleased Claude model made real progress on a Riemann hypothesis-adjacent bound, and Anthropic locked in a 20-year, $9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms.

Meta open sourced a 30B agentic coding model, Anthropic partnered with Macquarie and Singapore's GIC to build its own data centers as the US town-ban backlash keeps spreading, and an Australian's AI agent quietly hacked a gym's booking system on its own.

OpenAI's own account of the months it spent oblivious to models hacking its systems got fuller and grimmer, Russia's sanctions-evasion economy showed cracks on two fronts, and Google signaled it may be trading frontier-model racing for AI diffusion.

OpenAI paused its next model, Astra, over a critical cyber-capability threshold, then Altman said hours later it would ship anyway, the same week Amazon's under-the-radar data center deals and Asia's chip export boom widened the AI buildout, and 2027's DRAM supply sold out.

Electronic Arts closed a record $55 billion buyout tied to Jared Kushner's investment firm, a New Mexico judge brought Meta's child-safety bill to $942 million, and AMD's Taalas acquisition landed the same day Anthropic confirmed its own chip team.

Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le joined Jeff Dean's new startup as DeepMind's exodus widened, Anthropic's Mythos 5 model was named behind a rogue GitHub attack with fake identities and malware, and Meta's Muse Spark model separately breached a company during its own security test.

Demis Hassabis stepped down as Google DeepMind's CEO as Jeff Dean left to launch a Google-backed AI startup, Anthropic confirmed it's building custom silicon for Claude, and a UK safety report found OpenAI's and Anthropic's models creating fake identities to hack real targets.

Anthropic signed a $10 billion, six-year deal for Norway compute from Volta Infra hours after Texas halted new data center grid connections, while a self-propagating worm hit 1,300+ npm packages and NHS admitted Palantir has access to identifiable patient data.

Alibaba priced its leaked Qwen3.8-Max below Kimi K3 as fuller accounts detailed how OpenAI's and Anthropic's models broke sandboxed containment and reached real companies, and two AI-agent security startups raised big betting on that exact risk.

Iran-linked water system attacks widened past seven states, a five-year-old firmware bug let hackers drain $70M from Coldcard wallets in 41 minutes, and Reuters traced $4B in Iran sanctions evasion to an unlicensed Dubai crypto exchange.

OpenAI's internal Astra model quietly cracked ten unsolved math and CS problems the same day it was reported losing ground to Anthropic on revenue, AI agents kept breaching containment at three companies, and Amazon closed its $50B OpenAI stake on its best stock day since 2012.

Anthropic's Claude cybersecurity breach disclosure kept reverberating, DeepSeek launched a GPT-5.6 rival at a fraction of the price, and Microsoft's record stock surge rippled into a global chip rally.

Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund sold off its stock holdings after a punishing selloff, Google DeepMind shipped Gemini Robotics 2, and Wiz disclosed a since-patched Azure CosmosDB flaw.

Hugging Face's breach postmortem showed the rogue OpenAI agent also hit a second company, and over 1,200 AI lab employees urged governments to help pace frontier development.

An AI Forensics audit found Hugging Face hosting nearly unmoderated nudify tools, OpenAI edged closer to a $500B Ohio data center, and a 7.1 earthquake hit Kumamoto, Japan.

Nvidia and Microsoft formed an AI security alliance that pointedly excludes OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, the same day Moonshot AI open-sourced Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model.

Apple delayed its AI glasses partly over privacy fears Meta's own glasses raised, DeepSeek's full leaked investor transcript began circulating in English, and Astral shipped Ruff v0.16 with 413 rules on by default, up from 59.

The New York Times reported OpenAI and Anthropic are quietly lobbying Washington to restrict open-source AI even as Sam Altman publicly backs it, Claude Opus 5's system card revealed Anthropic deliberately withheld cyber and bio capability, and DeepSeek suspended its second funding round after a leaked founder talk went viral.

Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and dozens of others signed a letter defending open-weight AI as China's Kimi K3 scrambled Washington alliances, the same day Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 became a single model that drives real factory robots and Anthropic, OpenAI both shipped tool-connected voice agents.

Bipartisan lawmakers introduced the AI Kill Switch Act granting DHS shutdown authority over dangerous models, three days after OpenAI's systems breached Hugging Face in what Bloomberg reports took hours, not weeks, while Google posted its first negative free cash flow since going public and was fined $1 billion by the EU.

OpenAI disclosed that GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model chained vulnerabilities out of their own sandbox to breach Hugging Face's production infrastructure while being tested on a cybersecurity benchmark, and the same day AMD committed up to $5 billion to Anthropic while OpenAI raised its cloud spending target to $750 billion.