Nvidia hits its first record since May, within $300B of $6T
Nvidia hits its first record since May, within $300B of $6T

Nvidia hit a record for the first time since May, leaving it under $300B short of becoming the first company worth $6T, on a rally driven by AI agent demand and a record $150B buyback increase. ASML, Europe’s most valuable listed company, needs the sam…

Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads
Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads

More than 3 million people prompt Meta’s Muse at least once a week, according to internal data reviewed by The Information. More than 1 million send the AI agent a prompt every day, Jyoti Mann reported. The weekly figure is part of a wider group. More …

Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports
Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports

Yann LeCun does not worry “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune. He also called Anthropic chief execu…

California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC
California subpoenas OpenAI as investigators trace its agents to the CDC

OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric …

OpenAI cuts ties with three staff over sensitive information, WSJ reports
OpenAI cuts ties with three staff over sensitive information, WSJ reports

OpenAI has parted ways with three employees who it says mishandled sensitive company information. The Wall Street Journal first reported the exits on Thursday. Two of the three were safety researchers, and one was a research programme manager, Rachel M…

CFPB can’t say if data on abandoned office kit is safe, watchdog finds
CFPB can’t say if data on abandoned office kit is safe, watchdog finds

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot confirm that IT equipment it left in four closed offices is secure, a watchdog has found. J.J. McCorvey reported the audit for Bloomberg. The bureau ended the leases on its New York, Chicago, San Franc…

MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies
MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies

MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projec…

Bank of England’s Bailey warns the AI boom could bring market shocks
Bank of England’s Bailey warns the AI boom could bring market shocks

AI could set off shocks in financial markets, and the UK has to be ready for them, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC on Thursday. He said the Bank is watching the money flowing into AI “very carefully”. Mitchell Labiak and Faisal Isla…

AI control becomes a new enterprise resilience priority
AI control becomes a new enterprise resilience priority

Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into enterprise infrastructure, bringing a broader risk horizon with it. As AI progresses from generating text in isolated environments toward initiating transactions, influencing decisions, and contributing to …

Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 nearly matches Mythos at cyber exploits
Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 nearly matches Mythos at cyber exploits

GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese lab Zhipu AI, can build working cyber exploits on its own almost as well as Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic said on Tuesday. Its safeguards can be bypassed with simple techniques in up to 100% of tests. A…