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Carbon Robotics’ new Large Plant Model, trained on 150 million images from its laser-weeding fleet, recognises plant species instantly — letting farmers target brand-new weeds in real time without any retraining.
Anthropic’s restricted Claude Mythos Preview model has flagged thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities — including some in every major operating system and web browser — and built working exploits autonomously, as part of a cyber-defence partnership with Nvidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft and 40 others.
Honor’s Lightning robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds in Beijing, beating the human world record by over six minutes — the latest milestone in China’s accelerating humanoid robotics push.
The Pentagon is quietly funding Twenty, a stealth startup building autonomous AI agents for offensive cyber operations, as the US-China cyber arms race accelerates.
Objection, an AI platform backed by Peter Thiel, will score every journalist in the world on credibility — promising cheaper redress while alarming those who rely on anonymous sources.
McKinsey says 25,000 of its 60,000 ’employees’ are now AI agents, as consultancies restructure around human-AI teams and brace white-collar workers for upheaval.
Red-team startup CodeWall says its autonomous AI agent gained full read-write access to McKinsey’s Lilli platform in two hours — a preview of machine-speed attacks on corporate AI.
New METR benchmarks put Claude Opus 4.6 at a 14.5-hour task horizon, with AI capability now doubling roughly every four months.
A non-developer built a production-grade autonomous trading system in a day using Claude Code — exposing how thousands of identical AI models could converge and destabilise global markets faster than regulators can react.
Claude Opus 4.6’s leap in long-context retrieval let it triage, route and assign work across a 50-person engineering org — the first sign AI agents can manage people, not just write code.
Sandia National Laboratories is testing NextSilicon’s reconfigurable accelerator, a chip that rewires itself to the software it runs, promising big power savings over Nvidia GPUs without costly code rewrites.
From corporate stablecoins to programmable CBDCs and AI-driven money, this is a look at how currency could soon move faster than regulators and slip beyond purely human control.