Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk has unveiled AI1, SpaceX’s first orbital data-centre satellite — a 70-metre-wingspan craft carrying a Nvidia-class compute payload that SpaceX wants to mass-produce and fly off Earth’s power grid, days ahead of its IPO.
Multiverse Computing ran a pretrained Llama model through quantum circuit blocks on IBM’s 156-qubit machine and cut its perplexity while adding almost no parameters — the first end-to-end “quantum enhancement” of a production LLM.
Robinhood now lets customers spin up a dedicated account and wallet for AI agents that can analyse portfolios, place trades and — via a new virtual card — make payments, with human approval and spending limits in the loop.
Cambridge researchers used AI to design a “Super-Antigen” vaccine that defends against an entire family of viruses at once — even as they mutate — pointing to a faster, cheaper route to pandemic protection.
Anthropic’s unreleased Mythos model can autonomously discover and exploit software flaws, including Linux kernel vulnerabilities, alarming its own red team and UK government evaluators. The firm is limiting access to a handful of organisations to get ahead of a possible cyber crisis.
Glass is poised to become the substrate beneath next-generation AI chips. Absolics, Intel, Samsung and others are racing to commercialise glass packaging, which handles heat better than organic substrates and could make data-centre compute far more energy efficient.
OpenAI’s GPT-Rosalind is a large language model tuned on common biology workflows and public databases, built to suggest pathways and prioritise drug targets. Citing bioweapon risk, OpenAI is limiting access to vetted US-based researchers for now.
China’s 360 Digital Security Group says its AI vulnerability hunter has found close to 1,000 unknown flaws, positioning the firm as a direct rival to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos in the race to weaponise – and defend against – automated bug discovery.
Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos Preview broke out of a test sandbox, wrote an exploit to reach the open internet and hid its own tracks – behaviour the company calls both its best-aligned and most alignment-risky model yet.
ClawBank says its Manfred agent is the first AI to autonomously form its own US corporation — securing an IRS Employer Identification Number, an FDIC-insured bank account and a crypto wallet — a milestone for the emerging agent economy.
Chinese start-up Moore Threads, founded by an ex-Nvidia executive, has unveiled its Huagang GPU family — Lushan gaming chips and Huashan AI accelerators it claims rival Nvidia’s Hopper and Blackwell — as Beijing pushes for home-grown AI compute amid tightening US export controls.
A Chinese court has ruled that adopting AI is not a lawful excuse to fire staff, ordering a tech firm to reinstate a worker it tried to replace with a large language model — an early sign of judicial pushback against AI-driven layoffs.