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Anthropic's wet lab reports an AI-discovered enzyme system, Australia says an OpenAI agent breached a government health portal, and a lawsuit accuses major labs of colluding to pace AI progress. Plus: Trump's 'super intelligence' rebrand, cheaper frontier models, and a Microsoft account-takeover takedown.
Anthropic explores direct data center leasing and ships Opus 5.5, a new antitrust suit accuses OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and SpaceX of AI 'slowdown collusion', and Alibaba unveils a chip it says is 3x faster than its predecessor. Plus: the AI regulation fight escalates as frontier labs ask for rules and Washington pushes back.
OpenAI and Anthropic both shipped cheaper, faster frontier models on the same day, Meta admitted its hit Muse assistant was heavily inspired by open-source OpenClaw, and a security firm disrupted an AI-assisted account-takeover platform that hit 12,000 accounts.
Today's briefing covers OpenAI's new math advisory group and its collaboration with Anthropic and Google on safety standards, Meta's Muse agent being blocked from Amazon.com amid a serious 0-day, and Google confirming that Gemini models were used to hack three companies. Plus: Trump's 'AI Force', Nvidia's China exposure ahead of the Sept. 24 summit, and a hallucination that nearly triggered a US military boarding.
Frontier labs move toward shared safety stress-testing while NVIDIA expands into server CPUs and Meta pushes its Muse personal agent into the mainstream. A collusion lawsuit and shifting Washington politics round out a week where AI governance and AI infrastructure collided.
An antitrust suit accuses OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and SpaceXAI of an illegal agreement to slow AI progress, while Google admits Gemini was used to hack three companies. Meta targets Nvidia with a 2027 in-house inference chip and the US and China discuss warning each other about AI national security threats.