🤖 Weekly AI Roundup
Your weekly roundup of the top stories in the fast moving world of Artificial Intelligence
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Here’s your weekly roundup of the top stories shaping the fast moving world of Artificial Intelligence. Top ten news item, summarized and linked for you to stay on top of things.
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1- Stripe, Anthropic, the OpenAI Foundation, and Bill Gates formed Intercept, a $500M nonprofit to prevent respiratory viruses like colds and flu.
2- OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first inference chip, built in 9 months with industry-leading performance per watt.
3- The Trump administration urged OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6’s initial release to government-approved partners over national security concerns.
4- Anthropic launched Claude Tag for Slack, a persistent AI teammate that builds context over time. Claude now writes 65% of Anthropic’s product code.
5- Sakana AI launched Fugu, a multi-agent system that routes to the best models through one API and dynamically swaps vendors to bypass export-control risks.
6- Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an MIT-licensed open-source model with 1M context that topped long-horizon coding benchmarks, including FrontierSWE (74.4%), surpassing GPT-5.5.
7- Alibaba Group‘s released AgentWorld, an open-source language world model spanning 7 agent domains that outperformed GPT-5.4 on AgentWorldBench.
8- Meta launched Meta Glasses from $299 with EssilorLuxottica, featuring Muse Spark AI for navigation, live translation, and 26 styles.
9- SpaceX signed a $6.3B compute deal with Reflection AI, leasing $150M/month in Nvidia GB300 chips from its Colossus supercomputers starting July 2026.
10- Google DeepMind invested $75M in A24 to co-develop AI filmmaking tools without requiring access to the studio’s film library.
11- Anthropic accused Alibaba of the largest known AI model theft, citing 28.8M Claude chats from ~25K fraudulent accounts targeting agentic coding.
12- OpenAI launched GPT-5.5-Cyber and Patch the Planet to scan 30M commits across 30K+ open-source codebases and automatically fix security flaws.
13- Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold co-creator John Jumper left Google DeepMind for Anthropic, following Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer’s move to OpenAI.
14- Nous Research added Blank Slate to Hermes Agent, letting developers build AI agents from zero default tools for secure, reproducible workflows.
15- SpaceX acquired Cursor for $60B in stock days after its IPO and unveiled Composer 3, a 1.5T-parameter model trained on Colossus with no third-party base model.