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Today's topics:

Startups selling Slack data - New reporting says bankrupt startups are selling internal Slack, email, and Jira archives to AI companies for training data—raising privacy, consent, and workplace trust concerns.

China pushes UN AI governance - Sixteen Chinese science and tech associations urged an open, fair global AI governance framework under the UN, emphasizing human control, anti-hegemony, and support for developing countries.

Anthropic Opus 4.7 and safeguards - Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with stronger long-running coding performance, higher-res vision, and new cyber-risk safeguards—alongside signals of expanding into design-adjacent tooling.

Codex agents and safer migrations - OpenAI upgraded Codex into a more agentic desktop partner and published guidance for sandboxed agent migrations, highlighting safer automation with audit logs, isolated execution, and reviewable PRs.

Tiny models and open weights - PrismML’s ternary ultra-low-memory LLMs, Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.6, and Hugging Face’s MLX porting workflow show how smaller, faster models and better tooling are accelerating on-device AI.

Compute deals reshape AI infrastructure - A reported OpenAI–Cerebras spending plan, Nvidia’s candid infrastructure commentary, and xAI’s GPU supply deal with Cursor point to a new phase of AI compute—where inference demand and financing strategies drive the market.

AI search moves into Chrome - Google is pulling AI Mode features into Chrome to cut tab-hopping, enabling side-by-side AI answers with page context and multi-tab inputs for research, shopping, and studying.

Websites prepare for AI agents - Cloudflare launched an ‘agent-ready’ site scanner to push emerging standards for discoverability, permissions, and API access as AI agents increasingly browse and transact on the web.

-Chinese Science Groups Urge UN-Linked Global AI Governance Framework
-PrismML Unveils Ternary Bonsai, a 1.58-Bit LLM Family for High-Accuracy Edge AI
-OpenAI Expands Codex With Computer Control, Plugins, Memory, and Long-Running Automations
-OpenAI Cookbook Demonstrates Sandboxed Agents for Safer Legacy Code Migrations
-Hugging Face ships an agent Skill and test harness to port Transformers models to MLX faster
-Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.7 with Stronger Coding, Higher-Resolution Vision, and Cyber Safeguards
-Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger quits Figma board amid reports of competing AI design tools
-Vercel Workflows reaches general availability for durable, long-running agents and backends
-Jensen Huang Signals Nvidia’s Supply-Chain Leverage, Lab Financing Playbook, and Tiered Inference Strategy
-Defunct Startups Monetize Slack and Email Archives as AI Training Data
-DigitalOcean Announces Deploy San Francisco 2026 Conference on Production AI Inference
-Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol. 34 spotlights the risks and controls of agentic AI development
-Notes on Distillation Limits, Pretraining Failure Modes, Scaling Parallelism, Cybersecurity, and Pipeline RL
-OpenAI Reportedly Commits Over $20B to Cerebras Chips, With Potential Equity Stake
-Alibaba’s Qwen Team Publishes Qwen3.6 Repo, Highlighting Agentic Coding and Persistent Reasoning
-Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas Pitches AI ‘Personal Computer’ to Cut Workflow Friction
-xAI Reportedly to Supply Massive GPU Compute to Cursor for Composer 2.5 Training
-OpenAI Launches GPT‑Rosalind, a Life Sciences Reasoning Model for Research Workflows
-Windsurf 2.0 Launches Agent Command Center and Native Devin Integration
-Google Brings AI Mode Deeper Into Chrome With Side-by-Side Browsing and Tab-Based Context
-Cloudflare launches tool to assess whether websites are ready for AI agents

Episode Transcript

Startups selling Slack data
Let’s start with the story that’s likely to make a lot of people look at their old workplace chat logs differently. A report cited by Fast Company says defunct startups are increasingly selling archives of internal communications—things like Slack messages, emails, and project tickets—to AI companies as training data. The sums can be meaningful, especially for a company shutting down. The problem is obvious: those records often contain personal details, context about health or performance, and identifiable moments that weren’t written for a public audience. Even with anonymization, the risk is that “workplace history” becomes a permanent, tradable asset—without clear consent from the people who created it.

China pushes UN AI governance
On the governance front, a coalition of sixteen Chinese scientific and technology associations issued a joint initiative calling for an open and effective global framework for AI governance, ideally under a United Nations umbrella. The document leans hard on people-centered AI, public benefit, and keeping systems under human control, while also naming a range of risks—from misinformation and privacy leaks today to longer-term concerns like loss of control and autonomous behavior. Politically, the subtext matters: it argues against technological hegemony and for equal participation in rule-making, with special emphasis on helping developing countries close what it calls the global “intelligence gap.”

Anthropic Opus 4.7 and safeguards
Now to model releases, where the pace hasn’t slowed—only diversified. Anthropic pushed Claude Opus 4.7 into general availability, positioning it as better at difficult software engineering and long-running, multi-step tasks. Two angles stand out. First, Anthropic says the model is more literal about instructions and more likely to verify its own work—exactly the kind of reliability improvements teams want when LLMs move from chat to execution. Second, Opus 4.7 ships with new cyber safeguards that actively detect and block high-risk requests, plus a verification program for vetted security pros who need legitimate access for testing.

Codex agents and safer migrations
Anthropic also found itself adjacent to a classic Big Tech tension: partnership versus competition. Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer, stepped down from Figma’s board, disclosed in an SEC filing, at the same time reports swirled that Anthropic may add AI-powered design tools that could overlap with Figma’s core territory. Even if the product details stay fuzzy, the story illustrates a broader pattern—frontier model providers increasingly bundle capabilities that look like features of existing SaaS categories, and that changes how partners, boards, and investors think about conflicts and competitive risk.

Tiny models and open weights
In developer tools, OpenAI is pushing Codex beyond “help me write code” toward “help me run the whole workflow.” The Codex desktop app now supports background computer use—agents that can see the screen and interact with apps—plus parallel agents on macOS. That matters because a lot of real development work lives outside clean APIs: clicking around a UI, iterating on a frontend, or validating behavior in a local environment. OpenAI is also layering in PR review help, richer previews, and options like SSH into ...