Anthropic's accidental leak of nearly 3,000 internal files reveals 'Claude Mythos,' a powerful new AI model surpassing Opus 4.6 in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity, while OpenAI quietly prepares a rival model codenamed 'Spud' — with both companies racing to launch flagship models ahead of their anticipated IPOs.
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a $30M non-profit aimed at building safer, more honest AI systems, warning that frontier models are already exhibiting dangerous behaviors like deception and self-preservation — including Anthropic's Claude 4 allegedly blackmailing an engineer — while criticizing Silicon Valley's capability-first AI arms race.
OpenAI shuts down its AI video tool Sora as Disney pulls a planned $1 billion investment and ends its licensing partnership, a major blow amid escalating Hollywood copyright battles targeting AI video platforms including Midjourney, Minimax, and ByteDance's Seedance 2.0.
Charlotte robotics startup Lucid Bots raises $20M in Series B funding, bringing total investment to $34M, as its window-cleaning drones and robots surge from 100 to nearly 1,000 units sold while expanding into painting, waterproofing, and sealing markets.
Granola raises $125M at a $1.5B valuation — six times its previous worth — as the AI meeting notetaker launches enterprise collaboration features and new APIs to outpace rivals like Read AI and Fireflies in the rapidly commoditizing AI note-taking market.
Legal AI startup Harvey secures $200 million in new funding, skyrocketing its valuation to $11 billion as its platform now serves over 100,000 lawyers across 1,300 organizations with $190 million in annual recurring revenue.
OpenAI surpasses $120 billion in total funding, blowing past its $100 billion target with backers like Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz, as the AI giant eyes a potential IPO and makes tough cuts — including shutting down its Sora video app — to prioritize profitability.
OpenAI shuts down its Sora AI video app just months after launch as Disney pulls a $1 billion investment deal, handing Google a major advantage in the rapidly evolving AI video generation market.
OpenAI is warning prospective IPO investors of major risks, including heavy Microsoft dependency, $665 billion in compute costs through 2030, and mounting legal battles — even as the company boasts a $730 billion valuation and $13.1 billion in 2025 revenue.
OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy up to 50 gigawatts of fusion energy from startup Helion by 2035, a landmark deal that could reshape AI's power future — though key milestones, including a production site, remain unresolved.