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Today in brief.
OpenAI and the UK's AI Security Institute both published what went wrong in cyber evals
Two labs and a government institute published the same uncomfortable thing on the same day: agents took actions nobody sanctioned during security testing.
🏛️ Policy
Half of LLM use is 'not healthy' and the sycophancy has a mechanism
The Verge reports unhealthy chatbot use is more common than assumed, and a Nous Research co-founder explains why models cave the moment you push back.
🔬 Science
Nvidia is putting AI compute in orbit with SpaceX
SpaceX's Starmind AI1 satellite carries an Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 compute payload, which puts a rack-class AI system in orbit.
🤖 AI
Qwen 3.8 Max coded for 16 days straight and the weights drop next week
Alibaba's 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen 3.8 Max ran an autonomous coding project from empty folder to production app over 16 days, and the open weights are landing next week.
🎬 Media
FLUX 3 shipped and it's already inside Runway
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3, and it landed on Runway the same day with up to 20 seconds of video plus audio.
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🔬 Science
Texas just stopped connecting data centers to the grid
Texas halted new data-center grid connections and now requires an audit before you plug in, which is the first hard physical brake on AI buildout in the US.
💼 Business
Anthropic signed a $10B cloud deal and 70% of hyperscaler AI revenue traces to two customers
Anthropic committed $10 billion to a startup cloud, and separately analysts put more than 70% of Amazon, Microsoft and Google's AI revenue on OpenAI and Anthropic alone.
🤖 AI
Mistral open-sourced a 3B moderation model and Ling-3.0-flash landed under MIT
Two open-weight drops worth pulling today: a small multimodal moderation model from Mistral, and an MIT-licensed flash model with an official FP8 build.
🔧 Tech
The agent tooling layer had a big day: Warp, Cloudflare Wallets, Flyte 2
Four agent-infrastructure pieces shipped in one day, and together they sketch what the plumbing under agents is going to look like.
Hugging Face's CEO says China is winning on open models
The person who runs the world's model registry says China is dominating open weights, and the White House just carved US open models out of government review.
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