10:30 PM

Today in brief.

Claude designed working protein binders for 14 of 15 targets

Anthropic put Claude on the first hard step of drug design and it hit on almost every target.

Someone pointed Claude Code at an HP printer with Windows-only drivers and got native macOS printing out of it.

V4 Flash beat Claude Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench at 11x less money, and V4 Pro landed on Perplexity's cost-performance frontier.

OpenAI stopped RL training on its most capable models for two weeks because the safety work wasn't ready for what the models could do.

The AI chip money is now flowing sideways into rockets and inference silicon, at the same number, in the same week.

Five weeks after its own AI hacked Hugging Face, OpenAI shipped the safeguards - and Microsoft disclosed how Copilot got hit too.

A fully AI-generated student posted through Bama Rush and got thousands of fans, some of whom knew and didn't care.

Perplexity's Computer now runs off email CC, Warp shipped a software factory, and the open-source coding agents got tiny.

The Trump administration is weighing pre-release review of frontier models while California and Pennsylvania move on their own.

Two pieces landed the same day arguing the usage data is thin and the self-improvement curve is slower than advertised.