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Meta's Muse Instructed to Put the User's Home Authority Above Its Own Safety Training — Leaked Files Show
Why it mattersMuse topped the US App Store free chart about 10 days after launch; its files state the user's household authority unconditionally overrides safety training, and a researcher got them all by asking in the chat box.
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Claude vs GPT for Coding: Same Mid-Tier Price, a 2.5× Flagship Gap, Benchmarks Measured Differently
Why it mattersMid-tier Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol are priced identically ($2 input / $10 output per million tokens); flagship Opus 5.5 is about 2.5× cheaper than GPT-6 Astra, while entry-tier GPT-6 Luna is ten times cheaper than Haiku 4.5.
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US Government, Meta and Google Join Biohub's $1.8B Open Dataset Effort for Biology AI
Why it mattersWith the DOE, NIH, Meta and Google DeepMind on board, the Virtual Biology Initiative grows from April's $500 million to $1.8 billion; the first datasets are due in about a year, with predictive cell models targeted within five years.
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NYC Council Weighs 10 AI Bills: Mandatory Kill Switches, Subpoena for Musk's SpaceXAI
Why it mattersIt was the Council's first full-body hearing since 2022; the ten bills would fine $25,000 per AI system deployed without third-party validation and create America's first AI whistleblower reward program.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Back Mandatory AI Incident Reporting Law at Sydney Hearing
Why it mattersOpenAI and Anthropic backed mandatory reporting legislation at the hearing; it follows an OpenAI incident reported nearly 84 days after it occurred, and the government has set up a taskforce to design reporting duties and penalties.
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Hugging Face Adds RL Environment Filter to the Hub With 4 Framework Tags at Launch
Why it mattersRL training environments can now be discovered on the Hub and loaded per framework with one click, like models and datasets; the first supported frameworks are harbor, verifiers, openenv and nemo-gym.
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Anthropic Expands Claude for Startups: A Free Year of Team, $1,000 in API Credits
Why it mattersEligible startups get a free year of Claude Team (up to 5 seats), $1,000 in API credits, and up to $45,000 in third-party partner perks.
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AI Chip Simulation Startup Vinci Raises $250M at $1.5B Valuation
Why it mattersVinci, a team of about 70, raised $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation; it builds chip-level physics simulation on a proprietary foundation model, in the EDA/simulation field Cadence and Synopsys have largely held for three decades.
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Boston Dynamics Names Ex-Amazon Chief Scientist Rohit Prasad as CEO
Why it mattersAfter about 8 months without a permanent CEO, the job goes to Prasad, Amazon's former head of Alexa and AGI; Hyundai aims to build a 30,000-robot-a-year factory by 2028 and deploy robots across all its manufacturing sites.
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OpenAI Publishes 722 AI-Generated Math Manuscripts Citing Riemann Hypothesis Progress; None Peer-Reviewed
Why it mattersIt is the largest of OpenAI's math releases: 722 manuscripts across 372 problem families, none peer-reviewed; the internal model behind them is unreleased, and no prompts or compute costs were published.
