Weekly#712

  • Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro
  • OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up
  • Biosecurity in the AI Era
  • Anthropic strikes deal to launch European consultancy (FT)
  • Investigating alignment failures in AISI’s incident
  • Microduck robots
  • External evaluators find flaws in OpenAI’s AI monitoring system in pilot review
  • Evaluating AI agents: moving past the vibe check
  • Agentic Verification
  • “…Anthropic generated around $16.3 billion in revenue in the six months ended June 30, up from $1.1 billion in the year-earlier period, according to the draft prospectus. During that period, Anthropic spent nearly $9 billion on computing capacity and infrastructure, up from $2.3 billion spent on infrastructure during the same six months in 2025…” (WSJ)
  • Two AI Chipmakers Make Up 34% of America’s Earnings Boom (WSJ)
  • Avoiding AI Debt as a Team
  • The Three Tiers of Agentic Incident Response: When to Trust AI Autonomy
  • Getty Images plans bankruptcy filing, to go private
  • NASA adopting Apollo’s urgency to build a moon base and land astronauts within two years
  • SpaceX in Talks to Access 80,000 Cell Sites for Wireless Network
  • Scoop: Unvetted AI agents are accessing U.S. bank accounts
  • Introducing Claude Duet