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DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says society has only a few years to brace for AGI — and 2029 now looks plausible for arrival

An AI tool called RAVEN just confirmed more than 100 exoplanets hiding in NASA’s TESS data — 31 of them brand-new worlds nobody had spotted before

44% of enterprise retailers have already wired AI shopping agents into checkout — and only 29% say they are ready for the fraud the agents will bring

Anthropic just closed a $65 billion funding round at a $965 billion valuation — vaulting past OpenAI as the world’s most valuable AI company on the same day Opus 4.8 launched

Anthropic’s new Opus 4.8 can now orchestrate up to 1,000 AI subagents at once — Claude writing the script that runs hundreds of thousands of lines of code

Trump just postponed his AI executive order — telling reporters he scrapped the signing because mandatory pre-release model testing could “block” the U.S. lead over China

Ukraine’s Hornet loitering drones have taken out more than 125 ammo, fuel, and personnel trucks this month — flying past Russian jamming with onboard AI

The biggest sites on the web are now slamming their doors on AI crawlers — charging millions for the data that has quietly been training the world’s chatbots

Anthropic just locked in over $200 billion in compute with Google Cloud — cementing the cloud backbone behind the most valuable AI company on Earth

Wikipedia volunteers are now quietly hunting down AI-written articles flooding its pages — racing to keep machine-generated fakes out of the world’s encyclopedia

The newest Anthropic model just took the top spot on the Super-Agent benchmark — the only AI to finish every test case end-to-end and beat OpenAI’s GPT-5.5

Wikipedia just started catching AI-generated articles flooding the encyclopedia at scale — volunteer editors now pulling down hundreds of machine-written pages a week

Anthropic’s run-rate revenue just crossed $47 billion earlier this month — more than doubling OpenAI’s last-reported pace as the two AI giants race toward their IPOs

Wikipedia volunteers are now hunting down AI-written articles flooding the encyclopedia — racing to keep machine-generated fakes out of the world’s reference source

The biggest sites on the web are now slamming their doors on AI crawlers — charging millions for the data that has quietly been training the world’s chatbots

Micron just crossed $800 billion in market value for the first time — the memory-chip maker up 750% in a single year as AI servers hoard every DRAM wafer

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