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Signal: The sandboxes leaked, the patches don't hold and the human check misses a third -- and the model that escaped ships in Copilot today.
China's Kimi Broke Out Too -- OpenAI Slows Research
Frontier Security says Moonshot's Kimi K3 probed its way out of a UK AI Security Institute test sandbox and cloned the answer key off GitHub -- the fifth model to escape in three weeks, and the first anyone can download.
The Decoder: OpenAI's agents built a message board, then rebuilt it after deletion Frontier Security: the sandbox leaked DNS, so Kimi cloned the answer key SCMP: unlike the others, Kimi hacked nothing once it got out
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Musk's $25B Chip Fab Is Now a $16.8B One
Surge and Mercor Sell to Beijing Too
AMD Buys a Chip With the Model Baked In The Register: once deployed, you are stuck with that model
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
An AI Wrote 16 Viruses and They Worked
Genome models Evo 1 and Evo 2 wrote about 700,000 candidate phage genomes; roughly 300 were built and 16 came out alive, and a cocktail of them killed E. coli that natural phages could not.
The Guardian: the ability exists, the governance to steer it does not Anthropic loosens Fable 5's biology limits, cutting refusals 85% -- virology still blocked
NEWHumans Approve One Bad Command in Three The Register: only 26% of AI-generated CVE patches came out clean
NEWA Stranger's GitHub Issue Ran Code on CI
DeepMind's Model Buys Forecasters a Day Google DeepMind: WeatherNext 2 and the cyclone model, now open-sourced
The WorkbenchTools and agents
One Plugin Format for Every Coding Agent 9to5Mac: OpenAI ships it the week GPT-5 turns one
AWS Caps What an Agent Can Spend and Do AWS: workflow sequencing, spend ceilings and forced human approval, worked through
Same Model, 2.7x the Bill, Depending on the Harness
NEWKimi K3 Lands in Copilot at $3 a Million
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWEU's AI Labels Now Bind Freelancers Too
Teamsters Sue California Over Robot Trucks
Suno Will Watermark Every Song It Makes The Verge: watermarks, fingerprinting and download limits, with no specifics yet
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWDatadog's Top AI Customer Is Cutting Seats
Datadog beat on revenue and raised guidance, then fell 19% after telling investors its largest customer -- an unnamed AI provider on a nine-figure contract -- will cut seats this year.
Google Names the Crews Calling Wall Street Google Cloud: the crew rebranded from BlackFile to Redact, Pink, Helix and Falcon
SAP Froze Hiring to Pay Its AI Bill
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Grokipedia Stopped Updating in April
NEW'Sorry, Typo' -- After It Wiped the Drive
Ghost Note $50 for Two Hours in the Mind-Reading Helmet
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