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Today in brief.
Elon says xAI's 1.5-trillion-param Grok 4.5 is in private beta
Grok 4.5 is a 1.5-trillion-parameter model already testing inside Tesla and SpaceX, with Musk promising a new foundation model every month.
🔧 Tech
Anthropic's CEO calls open source a distraction
Anthropic's CEO says open weights don't make a model truly transparent - and it backfired, making people more pro-open-source.
🔧 Tech
China's Z.ai says GLM 5.2 matches Claude on cybersecurity
A free Chinese open model now trades blows with Claude on cyber benchmarks - and it's turning into a US policy fight.
🤖 AI
Anthropic is now #1 in US corporate AI - and Austria wants to host it
Anthropic overtook OpenAI in US paid corporate adoption, and now Austria is lobbying the EU to host it after US access curbs.
🔬 Science
The memory shortage is about to make your next iPhone way more expensive
AI's hunger for memory is draining the world's RAM supply, and Apple just passed the bill to you.
🤖 AI
Ford rehired the engineers it replaced with AI
Ford automated away veteran engineers, the work got worse, and now it's quietly hiring the gray-beards back.
🔧 Tech
People are using Claude Code as a second opinion on their own medical scans
Regular people are pointing coding agents at their MRIs and bloodwork - and in one case, used AI to design an Alzheimer's drug in a basement.
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