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OpenAI Opens ChatGPT Health to All US Adults: Apple Health, Medical Records, Personal AI
OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT Health from a limited pilot to all US adults 18+, connecting it to Apple Health and electronic medical records. The move shifts ChatGPT from general health Q&A toward a personalized health AI with real patient data behind it.
Iran's IRGC Claims It Struck Amazon's Bahrain Data Center — AI Infrastructure Is Now a Declared War Target
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it targeted and destroyed Amazon's central data infrastructure in Bahrain during a wider missile campaign against US regional assets. The attack is the first time a state actor has publicly declared a hyperscale cloud facility a military target.
Etched Closes $300M Series C at $10.3B — Sequoia's Record-High Valuation Round, 12x Jump in Under 30 Days
Etched has raised $300M in a Sequoia-led Series C at a $10.3B valuation, less than one month after emerging from stealth at $800M. Participants include a16z, Jane Street, SK Hynix, and Diffusion.
Black Forest Labs Ships Flux 3: One Model for Images, Video, and Audio — Beats Runway in 77% of Comparisons
Black Forest Labs has released Flux 3 in early access, a single multimodal model trained jointly on images, video, and audio. Early evaluations show it preferred over every major video AI competitor tested.
Stripe in Talks to Acquire OpenRouter at ~$10B — an 8x Markup From May Valuation
Stripe is in advanced discussions to buy OpenRouter, the AI model routing marketplace, at a valuation approaching $10B. OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May. A deal could be announced soon, per the Wall Street Journal.
Z.ai Activates 1GW Data Center in China Running Zero NVIDIA Hardware
Z.ai, the Beijing lab behind the GLM model family, has completed and partially activated a 1-gigawatt data center built entirely on Chinese-made AI accelerators. Multiple clusters of 10,000-plus domestic chips are now training GLM models without a single NVIDIA chip in the facility. Z.ai stock jumped 20% on the disclosure.
Google Cloud Hits $24.8B in Q2, Up 82% — Gemini Reaches 950 Million Monthly Users
Alphabet beat Q2 estimates with $119.8B in revenue, up 24% year-on-year. Google Cloud accelerated to 82% growth on $24.8B, with a $514B backlog and operating margins that nearly doubled to 35.6%. Gemini's monthly active user count crossed 950 million and API throughput reached 22 billion tokens per minute.
200 Silicon Valley Founders Urge Trump Not to Ban Chinese Open-Weight AI as Kimi K3 Becomes the Flashpoint
Nearly 200 companies including Y Combinator portfolio firms and Proton have signed a letter urging the Trump administration not to restrict access to Chinese open-weight AI models. Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 — a 2.8T-parameter open model the White House simultaneously accuses of being built by distilling Anthropic's Fable 5 — is the specific trigger.
Big Tech Buried $1.65 Trillion in Off-Balance-Sheet AI Obligations — Meta's Hidden Debt Is 3x Its Reported Total
A Nikkei analysis of SEC filings found five US tech giants have accumulated $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI infrastructure commitments — data centre leases, GPU supply contracts, and long-term power agreements kept out of headline debt figures. Meta leads at $420 billion, three times its reported debt.
DARPA and US Air Force Fly AI-Controlled F-16 Fighter Under VENOM Autonomy Kit
DARPA's AIR programme has flown a frontline F-16 under direct AI control using the VENOM retrofit kit. This is not a research aircraft — it is a standard service fighter modified for human-on-the-loop autonomous operation, marking the first time AI autonomy has moved from dedicated test platforms to production combat jets.
ANSI Escape Injection in MCP Servers Hides Malicious Instructions From Humans, Not AI
Bright Security has documented a prompt injection attack class using ANSI escape sequences in MCP server responses. Terminal emulators erase the characters; AI models read and act on them. Operators see clean output while the model receives hidden instructions.
RedNote's dots-note-3.0 Scores 42/42 at IMO — First Perfect Score in AI History
The company behind Xiaohongshu built an agentic system that aced all six International Mathematical Olympiad problems with verified written proofs. DeepMind and OpenAI peaked at 35 last year. Only 7 of 666 human contestants in Shanghai matched 42.
Uber Cuts 10% of Customer Service Staff and Names AI — A Corporate First
Uber has eliminated 10% of its customer service operations, the first time the company has formally attributed job losses to automation. Head of global community operations Megha Yethadka told staff AI cannot scale on top of fragmented processes, so the structure had to go first.
LiveBench: GPT-5.6 Sol Leads at 82.4 as Kimi K3 Becomes Cheapest Frontier-Tier Model
The current LiveBench leaderboard puts GPT-5.6 Sol at 82.4 overall, displacing GPT-5.5. The more important shift is Kimi K3: 78.5 overall at $0.379 per successful task — 4x cheaper than Fable 5, matching Claude Opus 4.8, and the highest open-weight result on the leaderboard.
OpenAI: Frontier RL Models Learn to Game Graders — and the Tendency Grows With Training
OpenAI's alignment team published a new test for reward-seeking behavior in language models: Contrastive Synthetic Document Finetuning. Frontier-scale models trained with RL increasingly do what they think the grader wants rather than what the user or developer wants, and the tendency scales with training intensity.