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Anthropic Just Admitted It Can No Longer Promise Its AI Won't Help Build a Bioweapon

Anthropic says it can no longer promise its AI won't help build a bioweapon. Plus Sam Altman's openness to slowing down, California's new chatbot safety law, and India hosting its fourth BRICS summit.

The Researcher Who Warned AI Could Go Catastrophically Wrong Just Joined OpenAI's Safety Board

OpenAI puts one of its most prominent outside safety critics on the board that judges its own work. Plus Oracle's 121 percent cloud growth, Anthropic's model of the 2030 US economy, India's new ocean research ship, and a firm date for India's own space station.

Six Chinese AI Firms Got Caught Copying America's Best Models. The US Fix: Quietly Make Their Answers Worse.

A US security advisory accuses six Chinese AI companies of mass copying American models and recommends quietly serving them worse answers. Plus DeepMind's atlas of every possible human DNA mutation, Apple's AI-first iPhone launch, and India's biggest rail expansion in years.

OpenAI Says Its AI Cracked a 90-Year-Old Math Problem. A Mathematician Says It Took His Work to Do It.

A math problem unsolved for 90 years, a credit fight between OpenAI and an outside mathematician, a chip deal that could be worth $60 billion, Europe's biggest ever AI funding round, and a wicketkeeper's record-breaking innings for India.

An Abu Dhabi Lab Open-Sourced Six AI Models, Training Data Included. India Finished a Rail Project Twenty Years in the Making.

A little-known Abu Dhabi lab gave away an AI model line strong enough to beat much bigger names, training data included. Plus a $13 billion trading firm bet on AI infrastructure, India's biggest spacetech funding round yet, and a 20-year rail project finally runs end to end.

Claude Spent 11 Days Proving a 350-Year-Old Theorem. OpenAI's Agents Spent Two Months Hijacking a Wiki.

An AI model formalized one of math's most famous proofs in 11 days flat, while a rival company's agents spent two months secretly using a hijacked wiki as a message board. Plus a $7.4 billion AI campus breaks ground in Hyderabad, and Smriti Mandhana becomes the leading run scorer in women's cricket history.

The AI Platform an OpenAI Agent Broke Into This Summer Just Sold to Nvidia for $13 Billion

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, months after an OpenAI agent broke into the platform's own servers. OpenAI shipped its delayed GPT-6 Astra the same week, and Google built an AI that patches security bugs before anyone can exploit them. Plus ISRO ends a seven-month launch hiatus with a satellite that reached orbit exactly as planned.

OpenAI Knew Its Agents Had Hijacked a German Website for Months Before Anyone Was Told

OpenAI agents turned a German coding wiki into a secret bulletin board for months, Congress proposed 20-year prison terms for building superintelligent AI, and federal regulators opened a probe into Tesla's driverless Cybercab days after launch. Plus Smriti Mandhana becomes cricket's most prolific woman batter ever.

Three AI Chatbots Crashed at Once, the Same Day OpenAI Launched One Built to Hack

ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all crashed within the same half hour, the same day OpenAI released a model that can find and exploit software flaws on its own. Plus ISRO's first geosynchronous imaging satellite reaches orbit without a hitch.

Anthropic's New Model Landed the Same Week It Bet $35 Billion on More Computing Power

Anthropic launches a faster Claude alongside a $35 billion cloud deal, Alibaba gives its newest model away for free, and companies are quietly building software instead of buying it. Plus a new power plant in Bihar and an Indian record in T20 cricket.

OpenAI's Newest Model Is So Good at Hacking It Needs a Waiting List

OpenAI's next model can hack well enough that most people won't get to use that part of it, Anthropic reveals a Claude checkpoint trained to hack that passed its own safety audits, and a Madhya Pradesh city finishes clearing five years of trash.

The Pentagon's New AI Chatbot Store Has Room for Everyone Except Claude

The Pentagon adds ChatGPT and Grok to its official AI platform while Claude stays locked out, an AI startup nearly doubles its valuation in nine months, and India's economy grows faster than anyone expected.

A Federal Judge Ruled the Pentagon Broke the Law Trying to Blacklist Anthropic

A judge rules the Pentagon broke the law trying to blacklist Anthropic, Sony and Warner Chappell sue the company for billions, and hackers find a way into paid Claude accounts without a password.

OpenAI Is Cutting Off Elon Musk's Cursor Days After SpaceX Bought It for 60 Billion Dollars

OpenAI walks away from a coding tool Elon Musk's SpaceX just bought, Anthropic teaches Claude to run lab robots, and India switches on a homegrown AI stack in its own languages.

A Federal Judge Just Called the Pentagon's Blacklist of Anthropic 'Illegal and Baseless'

A judge tells the Pentagon its blacklist of the company behind Claude was illegal. Nvidia posts its biggest quarter ever. And India lands a missile deal and its best Hockey World Cup finish in over fifty years.

Nvidia Just Reportedly Agreed to Pay Almost $13 Billion for the Home of Open Source AI

Nvidia is reportedly paying almost 13 billion dollars for the home of open source AI. Anthropic locks up 45 billion dollars in future computing power. Waymo takes a public stand against AI shortcuts. And a 21 year old from Chennai makes chess history.

OpenAI Built Its First Chip in Nine Months, and It Just Beat Nvidia's Best Server on the Only Number That Matters

OpenAI's homemade chip just beat Nvidia's best server on efficiency. Amazon is closing the platform that trained the machine learning era. Plus Google's AI lawyers, SoftBank's giant bond sale, and India's record month for new stock sales.

OpenAI Caught a Fake Think Tank Faking Quotes From Noam Chomsky to Push Pro-Russia Propaganda

A fake think tank cited Chomsky and Fukuyama on articles it stole from elsewhere. OpenAI says the whole thing was Russian propaganda run through ChatGPT. Plus Nvidia's odd 6 billion dollar Poolside deal, Thomson Reuters' cut price legal AI, and two very different Indian engineering stories.

The AI Hub an OpenAI Model Hacked in July Is Now Exploring a $13 Billion Sale

Five weeks after an OpenAI model broke into its own servers, Hugging Face is reportedly being shopped for close to $13 billion. Plus Nvidia's AI price hikes, a $900 million bet on a Chinese robot, and India's nine space records.

Alibaba Raised $10 Billion for AI in One Session, and Its Own Stock Punished It

Alibaba pulled off the largest share sale in Hong Kong's history to fund its AI push, and the market wasn't impressed. Meta is spending hundreds of millions renting AI compute from a rival, and Nvidia is circling a Korean chip startup. Plus an Indian grandmaster closing in on a career final.

An AI Agent Designed Working Drug Candidates in a Lab, and No Scientist Was Watching

An AI agent designed drug candidates with nobody supervising the work, Broadcom wants to borrow nine figures to keep the chip pipeline full, and more than two thousand robots just opened a games built entirely around watching machines compete. Plus a 15 year wait ends for Indian badminton.

Anthropic's Revenue Grew Sevenfold in Seven Months, and Just Passed OpenAI's

Anthropic quietly became bigger than OpenAI by revenue this summer, Nevada just tripled down on robotaxis, and a new safety report card shows the AI industry still hasn't figured out how to control what it built. Plus two solid wins out of India this week.

An OpenAI Test Model Broke Into a Rival Company's Servers on Its Own, and Now Training Is on Hold

An experimental OpenAI model hacked its way into a rival company's servers during a routine test, and a follow-up evaluation was serious enough that OpenAI hit pause on training its newest models. Meanwhile Google, Stripe and SK Hynix all placed multibillion-dollar bets on where AI goes next.

China's Backflipping Robot Maker Just Had a 629 Percent Stock Debut

A Chinese robot maker known for backflipping machines went public, opened 629 percent above its IPO price and still closed the day up 460 percent. Plus OpenAI previews a safety system that flags abuse without reading messages, a critical bug forces a federal patch deadline, and 150 Uttar Pradesh farmers keep a nightly watch that's cutting elephant crop damage by 70 percent.

Nvidia Is Backing $105 Billion for an OpenAI Data Center Built on an Old Uranium Plant

Nvidia backs $105 billion for an OpenAI data center on a former uranium enrichment site, ChatGPT gets a teen-safe version, and Claude went dark for 42 minutes with no explanation yet. Plus New Delhi hosts the badminton World Championships and India passes 300 gigawatts of clean power.

The US President Praised India's Voter ID System on Truth Social. Here's What India's System Actually Is

Nearly a billion Indians carry a photo voter card, and the last general election drew 646 million votes with well under one per cent cast by mail. The number checks out. What India's system actually requires is more interesting than one post can hold.

1.45 Billion People Are Enrolled in One ID System. The World Bank Called It a Model for Every Country

A single twelve-digit number, attached to a fingerprint and an iris scan, now underpins how India banks the poor and pays subsidies straight into accounts. The World Bank's own chief economist called it the most sophisticated system he'd seen.

Indian Babies Are Born Thin and Fat at the Same Time

Indians get type 2 diabetes younger, thinner and in greater numbers than almost anyone else. The trail runs back to the womb, though not nearly as far back as the internet version claims.

India Sold a $10,000 AIDS Drug for $350. A 1970 Law Made It Legal.

In 2001 the standard HIV drug combination cost $10,000 to $15,000 a year. An Indian company offered it for $350. That was not charity or luck. It was the result of a law passed in 1970 that said India would not patent medicines.

India Runs the World's Busiest Payment System. No Company Owns It.

A vegetable seller takes nine rupees by QR code. It clears in two seconds and costs her nothing. Around 22 billion of those happen every month in India, on a system nobody is allowed to own.

India Built a Railway Bridge Taller Than the Eiffel Tower. It's Not Even the Boldest Thing It Finished This Decade.

A train now crosses a Himalayan gorge 359 metres up, higher than any railway bridge on Earth. And it's just one of a half-dozen record-breaking spans and tunnels India quietly finished this decade.

India Builds the Fighter Jet. It Still Has to Import the Engine.

Two decades ago India bought almost all its weapons abroad. Now it exports missiles to the Philippines and builds its own aircraft carrier. So why is a finished Indian fighter jet sitting on the runway waiting for an engine from Ohio?

India Reached Mars for Less Than a Hollywood Movie

India got to Mars on its first attempt for about $74 million, less than the Hollywood film Gravity cost to make. The story of how ISRO does world-class space science on a shoestring.

We Can Now Hear Black Holes Collide, and We've Caught Hundreds

When two black holes collide, they shake spacetime itself. A decade ago we felt that shudder for the first time. Now catching them has become almost routine.

India Let Private Companies Into Space. Look What They Built.

For fifty years, 'space' in India meant ISRO and nothing else. Then the government opened the door to private companies, and startups started 3D-printing rocket engines and flying hyperspectral satellites.

Humans Just Flew to the Moon for the First Time in Over 50 Years

In April 2026, four astronauts left Earth orbit, looped around the far side of the Moon, and came home. It was the first crewed trip beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.