Artificial Intelligence
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.
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.
Security researchers have caught hackers using large language models to weaponise hijacked AI infrastructure, turning compromised servers into a self-propagating botnet that mines crypto and launches attacks.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans are still the best at hacking systems – but AI is a whisker away…