OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 (codenamed 'Spud'), reclaiming the frontier lead with new reasoning and coding capabilities. Meanwhile, the White House accused Chinese labs of industrial-scale model distillation, and Anthropic's 80K-worker survey revealed that AI's biggest productivity beneficiaries are also the most anxious.
This issue of The Rundown: Anthropic's locked-down cybersecurity model Mythos leaked to a Discord group days after release; SpaceX locked in a $60B acquisition option on AI coding startup Cursor; OpenAI launched Workspace Agents for teams; plus a two-step dictation strategy for better docs.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 with 'thinking' capabilities, topping text-to-image leaderboards. Meta is reportedly logging employee keystrokes and mouse activity to train AI agents. Google releases Deep Research Max agents. A new guide shows how to build a daily command center with Claude Live Artifacts.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin personally forms a strike team to chase Anthropic's coding edge. Moonshot AI open-sources K2.6, an agentic coding model rivaling GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro. Adobe launches CX Enterprise agentic platform for businesses.
OpenAI transforms Codex into a 'superapp' with background computer use and memory, while Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 to top GPT-5.4 in agentic coding, intensifying the rivalry between the AI giants.
This week: Allbirds reinvents itself as a GPU rental business, stock surges 600%; Google launches native Gemini Mac desktop app; Notion's built-in Claude agents can audit business workflows; Snap cuts 1,000 jobs as AI now writes 65% of new code.
Andon Labs puts an AI agent named Luna in charge of a real retail space with $100K budget and a credit card, letting it hire workers and manage a boutique. Stanford HAI reports AI adoption has surpassed 50%, but public trust hits record lows.
A 20-year-old was arrested for attacking Sam Altman's home with a Molotov cocktail. Altman responded by acknowledging 'justified' AI anxiety. Other updates include AI-driven drug side effect discovery and infographic generation tools.
Perplexity integrates Plaid to turn Computer into a personal finance hub, pushing ARR past $450M with a 50% monthly jump; Amazon discloses AI revenue for the first time; Oxford AI predicts heart failure five years early.
Anthropic unveils Mythos AI, deemed too powerful for public release; China's Z AI GLM-5.1 tops coding benchmarks with open-source model; Anthropic locks in 3.5GW compute deal with Google and Broadcom, reaching $30B run-rate revenue.
OpenAI proposes taxing AI profits, creating sovereign wealth fund, 4-day workweek; New Yorker publishes investigation into Altman firing; Meta's first superintelligence models ready to ship.