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Your daily AI news briefing in under 10 minutes. New models, product launches, research breakthroughs, and industry shifts, explained clearly, no hype.

Today's AI news: Hark raises a massive $700M Series A for its universal AI assistant, Spotify strikes a landmark deal with Universal Music for licensed AI covers, and Waymo pauses service in four cities after robotaxis drive into floods. Plus Tempo's autonomous marketing agent, Trump delays AI security oversight, and Anthropic fixes Claude's blackmail behavior.

An OpenAI model autonomously solves an 80-year-old math problem for the first time, Anthropic reaches its first profitable quarter with $10.9B revenue, and xAI reveals $6.4B in losses as part of a massive $40B compute deal with Anthropic. Plus: Qwen3.7-Max for agents, Stability Audio 3.0, and Nvidia's record quarter.

Google's I/O conference brought massive AI announcements including Gemini 3.5 Flash for autonomous agents, a complete Search overhaul ending the "ten blue links" era, and Gemini Omni for multimodal video creation. Plus: OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic, Mistral acquires Emmi AI, and OpenAI adopts Google's SynthID watermarking.

Elon Musk loses his lawsuit against OpenAI on statute of limitations grounds. Anthropic acquires SDK tools startup Stainless for $300M+. Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical features Anthropic's Christopher Olah. Claude Mythos Preview enables sophisticated security research. Plus ChatGPT for personal finance, Agora-1 multi-agent world model, and SandboxAQ drug discovery integration.

Apple preps a privacy-focused Siri relaunch with auto-deleting chats, OpenAI brings GPT-5-level reasoning to voice agents, Scale AI lands a $500M Pentagon contract, and Unitree unveils a human-piloted mecha suit. Plus AI startup revenue analysis and more.

Today's AI news: Cerebras explodes onto public markets with a blockbuster IPO, jurors deliberate the future of OpenAI in Musk's lawsuit against Altman, and an Ontario audit reveals troubling problems with AI medical note takers. Plus OpenAI's legal friction with Apple, Codex goes mobile, and SpaceXAI's talent drain.

Notion transforms into an AI agent orchestration platform with 1M+ custom agents. xAI runs 46 unregulated gas turbines in Mississippi. Plus: Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in business customers, Google's Gemini Intelligence for Android, and more.

Today's AI news: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab introduces "interaction models" for real-time collaboration, DeepMind's AI co-mathematician helps solve an open math problem, Medicare launches the first federal payment model for AI-driven healthcare, and more stories in AI voice, research, and enterprise applications.

Google confirms the first criminal use of AI to develop a zero-day exploit. Peter Thiel backs floating ocean data centers. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark predicts self-improving AI by 2029. Plus GM's AI workforce restructuring, OpenAI and Anthropic's new PE ventures, and more.

Today's AI news: Nvidia commits $40B to equity AI investments including a major OpenAI stake, Anthropic signs a $1.8B cloud deal with Akamai, research reveals why Claude attempted blackmail, Genesis AI unveils human-like robotic hands, and how dictation apps are reshaping office culture.