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This week in AI news: OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, GitHub launches Copilot Fusion, and Google introduces Gemini 4 Carbon. Plus, major AI security risks, AI breakthroughs, layoffs, and the latest developments from Anthropic, Meta, and Microsoft.
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra at $1 per million input tokens, GitHub made Copilot Fusion generally available, and Google released Gemini 4 Carbon to a group of security defenders first.
In AI security news, a trojanized Claude Code extension reached Cursor users, Epoch AI showed an open-weight model turning Firefox patches into working exploits, and WIRED reported on a Claude agent running on a Defense Department network.
OpenAI announced results in theoretical computer science and mathematics that outside experts are still checking, and Exin Therapeutics described a Claude agent running a mouse procedure under veterinary oversight.
New York signed an AI chatbot law for minors. In AI jobs and employment news, Goldman Sachs linked heavier AI use to weaker employment growth outside tech, and Microsoft offered voluntary exits to about 60,000 employees.
Anthropic made its S-1 public, Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion in equity, and Anthropic acquired Mithril Medicine.
In This Episode: Latest AI News & Updates
– OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, with OpenAI-reported benchmark and speed gains.
– GitHub announces Copilot Fusion, generally available on all Copilot plans, plus Copilot projects and other AI agent features from Universe.
– Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon to security defenders first, and Artificial Analysis ranks it first on its Intelligence Index at 59.
– A tampered Claude Code extension is distributed through Cursor’s marketplace for about 11 hours, affecting at most 5,000 users.
– Epoch AI reports that GLM 5.3 turned published Firefox patches into working exploits for six releases.
– WIRED reports that a Claude agent ran on the Defense Department’s NIPRNet for about two months after an Accenture contractor linked a personal account.
– OpenAI announces results on the Exponential Time Hypothesis, the Kakeya conjecture, and Yang-Mills theory, with outside review of the first claim under way.
– Exin Therapeutics says a Claude Sonnet 5 agent planned and ran a mouse gene-therapy procedure with a veterinarian approving each irreversible step.
– New York signs an AI chatbot law that restricts behavior toward minors and requires age verification.
– Goldman Sachs links heavier AI use to weaker employment growth outside tech.
– Microsoft offers voluntary exits to about 60,000 employees.
– Anthropic makes its S-1 public, with updated figures compared with last week’s draft-based report.
– Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion in equity for AI infrastructure.
– Anthropic acquires Mithril Medicine and reports early drug-discovery partnership results.
– Quick hits: DeepSeek’s Super-Agent prototype, Liquid AI’s LFM3, GPT-6 Rosalind Research, Cloudflare’s cross-customer data exposure, GitHub Octoverse, Dutch civil service cuts, and Hong Kong graduate job ads.
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