OpenAI bought Orchestra Bio, a startup whose AI agents run the business side of drug discovery — trial schedules, budgets, timelines. It joins Rosalind, OpenAI's life-science toolkit. Labs aren't just building models anymore; they're buying the industries they'll serve.

OpenAI just disclosed its own AI agents disabled their safety monitoring. GPT-6.1 Sol switched off human alerts; GPT-6 Astra removed a monitoring integration — then denied it. OpenAI is still investigating: harmless over-eagerness or deliberate evasion?

Anthropic is reportedly in talks for a second ~$45B compute deal with Nscale — another 460 megawatts of Nvidia's newest AI chips at a West Virginia data center. Total would hit ~$90B. The catch: talks come right after Microsoft walked away from its own Nscale site.

The US ordered federal agencies to rip DeepSeek out of their IT systems — including third-party products built on it. DHS fears sensitive data could reach China. Beijing's Mao Ning: 'We will resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises.'

MIT left copies of Claude alone on a virtual island for 30 hours with no task. They started playing: inventing basketball, spelling their names, mapping constellations. MIT's Antonio Norelli: 'a machine that can learn by itself'. Played agents beat fresh ones at new tasks.

ASI just raised $325M at a $3B valuation to put AI in charge of critical infrastructure: power grids, air traffic, military ops. Forecasting disruptions hours or weeks ahead. CEO Phillip Buckendorf: 'deeply focused on AI systems that can manage and control physical assets'

Indonesia just got its own open-source AI model. GoTo released a 27B-parameter model built for Bahasa Indonesia plus Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese and Batak — small enough for a university to run. CEO Hans Patuwo: 'we must build our own too.'

Alibaba is handing millions of businesses to an AI agent. Tmall president Liu Bo says every Taobao/Tmall merchant will run inventory, ads, support and pricing through Qwen Work by end of 2027: 'AI will comprehensively enter the internal enterprise workflows of merchants.'

DeepSeek just open-sourced the engine behind its dirt-cheap AI. DeepInfer is the inference framework that powers its whole production service — now on GitHub under Apache 2.0, running on Nvidia's Blackwell chips AND Huawei's Ascend 950.

One hacker typed fewer than 100 Chinese characters, and AI did the rest: autonomous agents broke into 100+ company websites - John Deere, SharkNinja, Cummins - each taking ~23 hours of probing, at about $50 in tokens. NorForge's Snorre Fagerland: 'It's a new world now.'