This Week’s News

  1. AI-discovered critical PHP flaws trigger emergency patches and warnings that frontier models lower the barrier to cyberattacks. [Link]

  2. Walmart welcomes authorised shopping agents as Amazon blocks outside agents, sharpening the battle over who controls the customer experience. [Link]

  3. Anthropic publicly files for an IPO, planning a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT. [Link]

  4. Music publisher Reservoir sues Suno and Anthropic over alleged unauthorised use of compositions and lyrics to train AI. [Link]

  5. The Agentic AI Foundation brings Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox under shared governance. [Link]

  6. AWS launches SageMaker AI training sessions for custom model training without managing GPUs. [Link]

  7. Google announces Agent Compute Engine, isolated workspaces for tool-using AI agents, with customer preview planned in the coming months. [Link]

  8. 1Password announces user-approved agent sign-ins without handing passwords to the agent. [Link]

  9. Virginia orders a statewide AI-cyberattack response plan and a Cyber Consortium linking government, universities and industry. [Link]

  10. Cadence announces Maestro, specialised AI models for chip and system design, initially for selected customers. [Link]

  11. Nvidia expands Cosmos tools for generating physical-AI training data and testing models in simulation. [Link]

  12. Swiss startup Enact Intelligence raises $30 million to develop robots that sense force and touch through their actuators. [Link]

  13. Barclays plans 5,000 job cuts in an AI-linked efficiency programme, according to CNBC. [Link]

  14. Chalkbeat reveals 38 education products flagged under New York City’s existing student-facing AI restrictions. [Link]

  15. Undergraduate AI majors spread to more than 100 universities, roughly doubling in under a year, WBUR reports. [Link]

  16. Penn researchers use AI to scan nearly 150,000 Reddit posts and comments for potential drug-safety signals about unapproved retatrutide products. [Link]

  17. OpenAI and partners report thousands of AI agents analysing mouse-brain data in 32 minutes to generate research hypotheses. [Link]

  18. Microduck passes 20,000 preorders after Jensen Huang demonstrates the tiny programmable robots, according to Clem Delangue. [Link]

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