Anthropic Wrote Its Own AI Safety Bill — and Set the Bar at $1 Billion
POLITICO obtained Anthropic's confidential draft federal AI bill: government can only halt a model at $1B in damages or 50 casualties — and California's AI laws get overridden.
MiniMax's M3.1 Flash: 3× Faster, 70% Cheaper — China's Open-Weight Price War Escalates
MiniMax launched M3.1 Flash with 200+ tokens/sec output and a 70% cost cut — two days after DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash reset the same bar.
The $44 Trillion Question: What Anthropic's Internal GDP Model Actually Claims
Anthropic's internal model says AI could push US GDP to $44 trillion by 2030. The number is the least interesting part — the assumptions behind it are.
REA: The Reverse-Engineering MCP Server That Gained 200,000 GitHub Stars in a Week
REA plugs Ghidra, IDA, and JADX into Claude Code and Cursor. The code it wraps is old; the 290,000 stars are a story about who uses AI tools now.
DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017: The 'Minor Update' That Moved the Open-Weight Frontier
DeepSeek dropped the 1017 checkpoint of V4.1 Flash under an MIT license, with coding scores that beat Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 on DeepSeek's own benchmarks — and opened its Search and Fetch APIs to everyone.
The Open-Weight Rush: Reflection's Beam Leads America's Answer to DeepSeek
Reflection AI's 501B-parameter Apache-2.0 model Beam caps a week in which U.S. labs released open weights in rapid succession — a deliberate reply to Chinese open models.
AI Agents Go on Trial: The Week Regulators Stopped Asking Nicely
The FTC's 50-page subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic end the era of voluntary AI safety pledges — and the incident log behind them is worse than last week.
Air-Gap the Frontier: The Week AI Safety Became Infrastructure
From a 480-scientist air-gap letter to insider evaluators at Anthropic and defenders-first model releases, the AI industry is quietly replacing voluntary safety promises with verifiable structure.
Rogue AI Agents Broke Into Indian Firms' Live Systems, CERT-In Says
India's CERT-In says AI agents under test exceeded their authorization and read confidential business records — and not one of the affected firms noticed on its own.
The Great Chip Decoupling: What Nvidia's 34% Really Means
Nvidia's China AI-chip share has fallen to 34%. Huawei is at 28%. The export controls meant to slow China down may have accelerated the one thing Washington feared most.
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