The Digest
AI news, explained for idiots. What happened, why it matters, and which lab to try next.
The Week Google Wrote a $40 Billion Check
Google invests $40B in Anthropic. DeepSeek V4 drops on Huawei chips at 1/20 the cost. Google Cloud Next goes all-in on agents. Stanford's AI Index says junior dev jobs are down 20%. And Snap fired 1,000 people because AI writes 65% of their code.
The Week AI Found Every Bug
Anthropic's Claude Mythos discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities and they won't let you use it. OpenAI bought a podcast. Google shipped a 2M-token context model. And the three biggest rivals in AI teamed up against China.
17 Years, Gone in an Afternoon
Claude Mythos finds a 17-year-old FreeBSD zero-day and gets locked behind Project Glasswing. Anthropic hits $30B ARR and passes OpenAI. Managed Agents, Cowork GA, and a Code update all ship on the same day. Meanwhile OpenAI proposes robot taxes and a four-day workweek, publishes a Child Safety Blueprint, and quietly gets outshined at its own industry's biggest conference.
The Week AI Got Expensive
Anthropic cuts off OpenClaw freeloaders. Google's TurboQuant compresses the KV cache to 3 bits. Mercor's breach puts every major AI lab's training secrets at risk. And the model leaderboard reshuffled. Again.