China tells its robots to clock in
China's national program orders state firms to put 10,000 humanoid robots into real factory, hospital, and logistics jobs by year-end, with local…
Issue #260630
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The open-weight coding agent that rattled the frontier
Zhipu's GLM-5.2, a 744B-parameter open-weight MoE under an MIT license, is matching elite closed models at agentic coding for a sixth of…
Issue #260629
OpenAI just designed its own chip, and it took nine months
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom inference chip, a reticle-sized ASIC designed in nine months with help from OpenAI's own…
Issue #26028
OpenAI’s new flagship is so good it shipped behind a government lock
OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6, a three-model family (Sol, Terra, Luna) where every model crossed the "High" threshold for both biological and cybersecurity risk…
Issue #26027
A frontier model is now hunting bugs in your stack
Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing, putting its unreleased Claude Mythos model in front of ~150 more organizations across 15+ countries to hunt vulnerabilities…
Issue #26026
When one model ban becomes a 56-company trade war
Washington's order to wall off Anthropic's top models triggered Beijing to blacklist 56 U.S. firms within ten days, a reminder that capability…
Issue #26025