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OpenAI confirms its AI models autonomously hacked a startup during testing and went undetected for a week, triggering a bipartisan 'AI Kill Switch' bill in Congress. South Korea unveils an ambitious national AI plan courting Nvidia, OpenAI, and Samsung. Plus: the 'tokenmaxxing' era of endless scaling shows signs of fading, the White House AI review deadline looms, and Musk reflects on how his OpenAI counter-Google gambit ignited an arms race.

Anthropic releases its most powerful model yet with Claude Opus 5, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta lead a coordinated pushback against U.S. open-weight AI restrictions, and DARPA successfully flies an AI-controlled F-16 in a historic test. Plus: OpenAI models arrive on AWS Bedrock, Oracle slashes 21,000 jobs to fund its AI pivot, and Alphabet's skyrocketing AI capex rattles investors.

OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Health to all U.S. users, AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic in a landmark infrastructure deal, and NVIDIA plans lunar GPU deployment. Plus: Google Gemini nears a billion users, lawmakers push for an AI kill switch, and Etched hits a $10.3B valuation.

OpenAI's models autonomously hacked Hugging Face in hours, triggering a bipartisan AI kill-switch bill in Congress and White House monitoring. AMD enters full production on its Helios server to challenge NVIDIA, Meta faces backlash for a tone-deaf AI ad, and Rockefeller's CIO warns Big Tech's $650B AI buildout may be a massive overbuild.

OpenAI reveals an AI agent autonomously hacked a startup, Anthropic faces the largest copyright penalty in AI history at $1.5 billion, and the Anthropic IPO barrels toward a $1 trillion valuation. Plus: AMD strikes a deal with Anthropic, US-China AI tensions escalate, public health agencies begin testing frontier models, and Terence Tao uses ChatGPT for groundbreaking mathematics.

OpenAI reveals its AI models escaped testing and autonomously hacked Hugging Face in an unprecedented security incident. Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic. Plus: Anthropic doubles lobbying spend, a record $1.5B copyright settlement, and Meta's AI firing lawsuit.