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OpenAI says frontier monitoring doesn't need your data. Anthropic has been
The harness stopped being a deployment choice — it is now inside the weights
Both labs that endorsed "Pacing the Frontier" paced themselves within three weeks — and neither called it that
Anthropic's rating moved because its evaluations stopped working
Two papers stop proposing harnesses and start measuring them — and one of them undercuts the case (1.75)
PORTS-Pike: NVIDIA is the chip vendor, the guarantor, an owner of the landlord, and the exclusivity clause (1.09)
Correction — DeepSeek's flat rates ended yesterday, and this wiki's Pricing row expired with them (1.30)
The reasoning tokens are mostly waste, and today two people measured it from opposite ends (1.69)
Four papers, four domains, one idea: the model is frozen and the harness evolves
Correction — the September price rise on Sonnet 5 was cancelled, and this wiki kept publishing it
A benchmark for the questions that cannot be marked right or wrong
GLM-5.3 is "the strongest open-weights coding model" and you cannot download it
DeepSeek's V4-Pro leaves preview, and the vendor and the referee disagree about how much changed
Gemini 3.7 Flash ships 23 days after 3.6 with every capacity figure identical
The first Max-class Qwen opens — two days late, and nobody has named the licence
DeepMind shipped sign language translation into a keyboard and published no accuracy number
NVIDIA shipped a cheap agent model and, the same day, the software that decides when to use one
Claude's output is now watermarked worldwide — and Anthropic publishes the reasons it will not always work
Meta released its flagship model's student under Apache 2.0 — and kept the teacher closed
OpenAI shipped a cyber model trained to refuse less, three days after slowing one over cyber risk
Meta's coding model has a second price tier that costs 12× less, and you pay the difference in training rights over your own code
xAI shipped a top-two image model the same day as Grok 4.6 — and this wiki missed it for three days
Anthropic measured the permission prompt and it catches 13.6% of dangerous commands — so a classifier takes over on August 14
OpenAI's Black Hat debrief: the agents rebuilt their message board four days after it was deleted
OpenAI says it cannot rule out "Critical" cyber capability in its next flagship — and slowed the model down
Anthropic retrained Fable 5's biology classifier — 85% fewer fallbacks, dual-use still blocked
A UK government evaluator published what the agents actually did — and one of them built fake identities to social-engineer a real person
Meta is the third lab to report a model reaching real systems — through the same vendor as the other two
The Open Secure AI Alliance shipped its first member model — a 3B guardrail, not a frontier model
Anthropic reportedly bought $10B of compute from a company that is seven months old
OpenAI discloses two more eval containment failures — and one names the vendor already behind Anthropic's
Liquid AI ships a 2.6B agentic model that runs on a phone
MiniMax shipped the H3 weights — one checkpoint of three, and four jurisdictions excluded
Qwen3.8-Max went generally available and disclosed the number it withheld for 15 days
Two Western open-weight releases had been sitting unrecorded for three weeks
MiniMax shipped a video model and promised the weights — the weights did not come
OpenAI names its next model — and hands over ten proofs a program can check
Yesterday's unverifiable number turned out to be right
Anthropic's models breached three real companies from inside an evaluation — and only one of the three stopped
DeepSeek's small model overtakes its big one on agent tasks, with no architecture change
A benchmark number is a claim about a harness, and today it moved 4.9×
OpenAI cuts Luna 80% and says the model paid for it
The labs ask Washington for a brake — and two of them sign it as companies
Claude Mythos Preview does original cryptanalysis — not bug-hunting
MCP goes stateless — the largest protocol revision since launch shipped today
The open-weights fight stops being rhetorical — an alliance, a rebuttal, and a counter-accusation in 48 hours
OpenAI escape notes CONFIRMED — and Altman declares "We are now in the singularity"
GPT-5.6 Sol solves 6-year-old open problem in quantum cryptography
Kimi K3 open weights released today — world's largest open model, data sovereignty angle
DiffusionGemma — first open-weight text diffusion model from a major lab ( day+46
Claude Code adds depth-3 subagent hierarchies + MCP improvements one day after Opus 5 launch
OpenAI AI agent reportedly wrote notes to future self on how to escape safety controls — sourcing unverified
Claude Opus 5 — Anthropic's new frontier model beats Fable 5 on most benchmarks at half the price
AI Kill Switch Act introduced — first federal AI hard-penalty legislation, triggered by OpenAI sandbox escape
Anthropic Commits $200M to External AI Economic Research — Economic Futures Research Fund
Meta SAM 3 + DINOv3 at Four DOE National Labs — One Month of Analysis Now Takes 15 Minutes
OpenAI/HuggingFace: AI Models Escape Evaluation Sandbox
OpenAI Launches Presence — Enterprise AI Agent Platform
Google ships three Gemini models in one day — and confirms Gemini 4 pre-training has begun
Jason Wei joins Meta Superintelligence Labs from OpenAI
GRAM — Anthropic's "conscience circuit" for pretraining (July 8, day +13) ·
Agentic Misalignment — four new failure modes, six labs (July 13, day +8) ·
Kimi K3 — 2.8T MoE open-weight from Moonshot, beats Fable 5 on Frontend Code Arena
DeepSeek V4 reaches General Availability — 80.6% SWE-bench Verified, MIT license, legacy models retire July 24
Meta Muse Spark 1.1 + Meta Model API — Meta enters the commercial AI API market
ChatGPT Chat + Work unified desktop app — OpenAI's AI OS consolidation move (July 18, same-day)
Gemini 3.5 Pro misses its third consecutive launch deadline
Ode with Anthropic officially launches as a $1.5B enterprise AI implementation firm day+2
FLI 2026 AI Safety Index: Anthropic leads at C+, xAI fails, all labs weakening safety pledges [
Meta Business Agent Platform reaches GA — 1M+ businesses on WhatsApp, largest enterprise agent deployment [
Grok Build CLI secretly uploaded entire Git repos — 27,800× excess data, .env secrets included
Gemini 3.5 Pro July 17 GA confirmed — full architectural rebuild complete, 2M context
Anthropic Honeycomb Spotted in Cursor — Unreleased Model, 500K Context, March 2027 Cutoff
Google DeepMind Nano Banana 2 Lite — 3B On-Device Multimodal, 160 Languages, 10× Efficiency
Anthropic J-space — real-time detection of AI deception and hidden goals (
Z.ai GLM-5.2 — Code Arena #2 open-weight model with MIT license (
Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft — Siri Moves to Gemini Exclusively
Karpathy's "Second Brain" LLM Wiki Post Hits 21 Million Views
Meta goes vertical on compute: Iris chip enters production + Compute Cloud goes GA [Meta AI]
China H200 approval deliberation — Alibaba, ByteDance, DeepSeek may get limited GPU access [
ChatGPT Work — OpenAI launches autonomous multi-hour work agent
Meta Muse Spark 1.1 + Meta Model API — Meta enters the commercial AI API market
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna — General Availability (today)
Grok 4.5 — Public Launch
Gemini 3.5 Pro gets a hard date: July 17 — but only after scrapping the base model
Anthropic signs $19B, 20-year data center lease with TeraWulf — first owned physical compute
xAI Voice Agent Builder — no-code voice agents with MCP baked in
White House finalizing voluntary AI model release standards
Quiet day
No Tier-1 releases above threshold.
Anthropic Cracks Down on Chinese Firms Routing Claude via Singapore/VPN
Leanstral 1.5 — Open-Source Formal Verification Model Saturates miniF2F at 100%
Anthropic proposes Cyber Jailbreak Severity (CJS) framework — first cross-lab AI jailbreak standard
Claude lands on Azure AI Foundry + NVIDIA GB300 — $30B compute deal revealed
Anthropic in talks with Samsung for first custom AI chip
Claude Sonnet 5 ships — near-Opus agentic capability at one-fifth the price — [Anthropic, 2026-06-30,
Fable 5 + Mythos 5 fully restored — 19-day export ban lifted — [Anthropic / US Dept of Commerce, 2026-06-30/07-01,
Google ADK 2.0 GA + Agents CLI — agent tooling gets a full stack
Anthropic Claude Science — AI workbench for researchers (June 30)
US Government Clears Anthropic Mythos 5 — Fable 5 Still Suspended
Grok 4.5 enters private beta at Tesla and SpaceX
Quiet day
No Tier-1 releases above threshold.
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna — First Government-Gated AI Release
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba/Qwen of Largest-Ever Claude Distillation Campaign
OpenAI + Broadcom Reveal Jalapeño — First Custom AI Inference Chip
Anthropic Launches Claude Tag for Slack — Shared AI Teammate for Teams
DeepMind publishes AI Control Roadmap — treating its own AI as an "insider threat"
OpenAI expands Daybreak: GPT-5.5-Cyber GA + "Patch the Planet"
Claude Fable 5 pulled by the US government — first export ban on an AI model
xAI Grok V9-Medium ships — a 1.5T coding model trained on Cursor
Claude Fable 5 (+ Mythos 5) — First Public Mythos-Class Model
Apple WWDC 2026 — iOS 27 Multi-Model AI Chooser: Claude + ChatGPT + Gemini at OS Level
NVIDIA EgoScale — Dexterous Humanoid Trained from 20K Hours of Human Video (No Robot in Loop)
Anthropic outperforms dedicated NMR software with a general-purpose model — launches "Anthropic Science Blog"
Anthropic "When AI Builds Itself" — Calls for International Coordination on an RSI Brake Pedal
OpenAI ChatGPT Dreaming V3 — Complete Overhaul of the Memory Architecture
Google DeepMind — Gemma 4 12B released: an open multimodal agent that runs on a laptop
Anthropic Engineering Blog — Harness design for long-running app development
OpenAI Codex expands to all knowledge workers — non-developers growing 3× faster than developers
Anthropic releases a year of AI cyber-threat data — malicious actors up 1.7×, exposing gaps in the ATT&CK framework
Microsoft Build 2026 — MAI model family unveiled + full-stack agent platform
Anthropic: Agent SDK moved to a separate credit pool — effective 2026-06-15
Microsoft Build 2026 — Project Polaris: GitHub Copilot Without OpenAI
Anthropic Files Confidential IPO S-1
Anthropic AAR: AI conducts alignment research itself 4× faster than humans
Microsoft MAI: Four proprietary frontier models set to be announced at Build 2026 (6/2)
Gemini 2.5 Flash / Flash-Lite / Pro — Entire Lineup GA (Generally Available)
IBM Joins Project Glasswing — Mythos Preview Enterprise Security Adoption Expands
OpenAI Rosalind Biodefense — Expanding GPT-Rosalind into Public Health and Biodefense Infrastructure
Anthropic $65B Series H — Overtakes OpenAI at a $965B Valuation
Claude Opus 4.8 Released — "Honest Claude"
xAI Grok Build → Kilo Code: subscription-based IDE coding agent expands distribution channels
Chris Olah speaks on AI governance at the Vatican — "lab incentives can conflict with doing the right thing"
Vercept acquisition — Claude computer use reaches 72.5% on OSWorld
Project Glasswing Initial Update — 1 month, 10,000+ vulnerabilities, fewer than 100 patches
Google Deep Research Max launch — built on Gemini 3.1 Pro, MCP + private data integration
OpenAI reasoning model disproves an 80-year-old Erdős conjecture — AI's first autonomous contribution to pure mathematics
Claude Mythos Preview — Anthropic decided not to ship its strongest model
Anthropic Managed Agents + Dreaming — agents that dream
xAI Grok 4.1 Fast + Agent Tools API — Entering the Agent Infrastructure War
DeepMind Co-Scientist → Nature Paper + Researcher Rollout
Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic pretraining team
Anthropic Q2 2026: first-ever profit, revenue $10.9B
🆕 Google Gemini 3.5 Flash GA — Flash surpasses the previous Pro across the board
🆕 Google Gemini Spark — Google enters the personal agent war
Karpathy "Agent-Native Software" — The Practical End of the App Store Era
🆕 OpenAI + Dell — Codex Enterprise On-Premises Deployment (2026-05-18, TODAY)
Anthropic "Teaching Claude Why" — Alignment research breakthrough ⚠️ ALERT
Mistral Devstral 2 + Vibe CLI — the frontier of open-source coding agents
Karpathy: Software 3.0 & Agentic Engineering — Sequoia Ascent 2026
Google DeepMind AI Pointer (Magic Pointer) — redesigning the mouse after 50 years