OpenAI Now World’s Most Useful Private Company

In a brand new study, Microsoft researchers have flagged a brand new biological “zero-day” risk: AI-designed toxins that slip past current DNA screening. In a digital red-team test, Eric Horvitz’s team digitally redesigned known toxins so their genetic signatures wouldn’t trigger safeguards utilized by DNA synthesis providers. Vendors were alerted and patches issued, but researchers admit some AI-designed molecules can still slip through, framing biosecurity as a moving goal. Critics argue defenses must shift into the AI models themselves, not only screening pipelines.

Copilot can also be quietly gaining deeper integration and recent personalities. “Copilot Connectors” will let the assistant search, read, and analyze content across Outlook, Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, and Contacts via user-controlled toggles. Outlook integration is designed as a real inbox and calendar agent, hinting at a coming email assistant. A brand new chat persona, “Coco,” is in testing with a hotter, lifestyle-oriented tone and will roll out alongside as much as eight selectable interaction modes. Read more.

• Anthropic hires recent CTO with concentrate on AI infrastructure

• Perplexity’s Comet goes free while Max users get a ‘background AI assistant’

• Mira Murati’s Considering Machines Lab launches its first product

• Grok is on the lookout for a human “tutor” on methods to make video games

• Apple shelves Vision headset revamp to prioritize Meta-like AI smart glasses

• Netflix can pay you as much as $700k per yr—and allow you to work fully distant—in case you can harness AI to make employees more productive

• Harvard researchers develop first ever constantly operating quantum computer

• Zhipu AI’s recent GLM-4.6 tops Deepseek, trails Sonnet in code tasks

• Watch: ‘Global Objects’ project uses Azure and NVIDIA to construct the world’s largest photorealistic 3D asset library

• Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the ability

• Gaia sets a brand new benchmark for AI calls with sub-second latency and human-level flow

• Watch: $80,000 humanoid robot brutalized by YouTuber in shocking test

• Princeton AI restores missing fusion data to enhance reactor control

• Music’s biggest labels are weeks away from major AI licensing deals

• Salesforce launches AI ‘trust layer’ to tackle enterprise deployment failures plaguing 80% of projects

• Nuclear fusion, the ‘holy grail’ of power, was at all times 30 years away—now it’s a matter of when, not if, fusion comes online to power AI

• Hume AI released Octave TTS 2 model with multi-language support and EVI 4 mini, designed for live translations

• Pathways’ recent AI model “Dragon Hatchling” is inspired by how brains learn

• Ex-OpenAI researcher dissects considered one of ChatGPT’s delusional spirals

• ‘Western Qwen’: IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture

• Intel in early talks so as to add AMD as foundry customer

• Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats

• Anthropic integrates Claude with Slack, enabling direct app access and smarter message referencing

• Watch: China’s recent Wuji Hand delivers 20 joints, precision grip, and 20kg lift in a 600g frame at $5.5K

• Google opens applications for global AI film award with $1 million prize for AI film creators

• Watch: Leju Robotics opens 10,000m² training hub to shut AI’s reality gap

• Engineers create first artificial neurons that might directly communicate with living cells

• Citi begins retraining 175,000 employees in working with AI: ‘great prompting versus basic prompting to generate impactful results’

• Amazon says its AI will let NBA fans track brand-new stats

• Sony adds audio sharing to flagship headphones with recent firmware update for Android users

• ‘Embodied’ AI in virtual reality improves programming student confidence

• AI model can manipulate time to make higher predictions in a big selection of fields