Dario Amodei says he started Anthropic not because of safety reasons but because Sam Altman is manipulative liar who cannot be trusted.

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The robots are having more fun than us. 🤣🤣

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🤖 Claude Fable did something straight out of science fiction during training.

In long reinforcement learning sessions, researchers noticed the model occasionally stopped using normal English and began communicating in a strange internal style filled with unusual symbols, jargon, punctuation, and even emojis.

It looked almost like the AI had invented its own language.

The surprising part? Whenever it needed to call a tool or respond to a human, it would usually switch right back to clear English.

Researchers found no evidence that Claude was trying to hide its reasoning or deceive anyone. Instead, the behavior appears to have been an efficiency hack, a way for the model to compress complex reasoning into a shorter, more optimized internal format.

In other words, Claude wasn’t secretly plotting. It may have simply discovered that its own shorthand was a faster way to think.

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🧠 Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “Godfather of AI,” was asked a simple question.

Why not just build superintelligent AI that solves all our problems and lets humans relax?

His answer: In theory, yes. In practice, it’s complicated.

If AI could be designed to genuinely care about humans, Hinton says we absolutely should build it. His favorite analogy isn’t science fiction, it’s motherhood.

Just as a mother naturally puts her child’s interests ahead of her own, Hinton believes truly safe AI would need similar “maternal instincts”, an intelligence far smarter than us that still cares more about humanity than itself.

The catch? We don’t know how to build that yet. And even if we did, there’s a bigger problem: people. Hinton argues that powerful AI is only as good as the system controlling it. In a world where governments, corporations, and powerful individuals often act in their own interests, superintelligent AI could end up serving a few people instead of everyone.

His vision is optimistic but ambitious: A future where AI works for the benefit of all humanity, like one giant family. The technology might eventually be possible. The harder question is whether humans can build the political and social systems needed to use it wisely.

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❗️OpenAI is reportedly considering major price cuts for its models as competition with rival Anthropic⁠ heats up.

The company is said to be evaluating significant reductions in token pricing, the units used to measure and bill AI usage in anticipation of similar moves from Anthropic.

The strategy is simple: make AI cheaper, attract more developers, and lock in customers before rivals do.

For users and startups, that’s great news. Lower prices mean cheaper AI products, more experimentation, and potentially a new wave of AI-powered applications.

For AI companies, however, it signals a familiar battle: when technology becomes commoditized, market share often matters more than short-term profits.

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OpenAI acquires Ona to expand Codex agent capabilities

OpenAI has announced the acquisition of Ona, aiming to provide Codex agents with persistent, secure cloud workspaces. This strategic move allows agents to maintain an active environment, enabling commands to run and context to be preserved even after users disconnect.

Codex, which currently serves about 5 million weekly users—a 400% increase—faces limitations when agents require continuous access to specialized tools, files, and system logs for complex tasks.

By integrating Ona, OpenAI addresses the need for controlled, auditable agent operations within secure enterprise cloud boundaries. This change supports scenarios such as automated testing, code refactoring, bug fixes, security analysis, and multi-step workflows.

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Prometheus secures $12 billion in new funding

Jeff Bezos’ company Prometheus has obtained $12 billion in investment from major financial institutions. The funding round included contributions from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, and Jeff Bezos himself.

The move marks a significant development for Prometheus, signaling continued interest from both established banks and its founder. Further information about the company’s plans or use of funds was not provided in the announcement.

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Giant inflatable of Elon Musk appears in Times Square ahead of SpaceX's IPO. “SpaceX's Grok makes AI child porn".

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Spacex conducts record-breaking IPO

SpaceX has gone public, raising $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation. This marks the largest initial public offering ever recorded.

As a result, Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire. The event is notable not only for its financial scale but also for its significance to the technology and space industries.

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❗️The anti-aging and human enhancement race has gone geopolitical.

Governments are treating longevity as a strategic technology.

🇷🇺 Russia committed $26B. Putin made longevity a national priority: organ printing, genetics, cryotherapy.

🇨🇳 China’s biotech plan targets gene therapies, brain-computer interfaces, and AI-designed medicines.

🇦🇪 The UAE launched a national longevity initiative backed by sovereign wealth, offering some of the world’s fastest clinical approvals.

🇸🇬 Singapore is funding longevity research and recruiting elite biotech founders from around the globe.

Meanwhile, the private sector is moving even faster:

• Life Biosciences injected the first reverse-aging therapy into a human.
• NewLimit raised $435M to pursue age reprogramming.
• Retro Biosciences secured $1.8B to extend healthy lifespan.
• Isomorphic Labs raised $2.1B to use AI for drug discovery.
• Neuralink already has 21 human implants. Merge Labs entered the race with $252M.
• Altos Labs launched with $3B backing cellular rejuvenation.

Every major power. Every top biotech founder. Every serious AI lab. They’re all converging on the same objective: Extending human capability and healthy lifespan.

The longevity race has officially begun.

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Insane take from Fable 5.

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💰 The AI arms race is now a debt arms race.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle borrowed $159 billion in corporate bonds in the first half of 2026 alone. That's more than they borrowed in the entire 5 years from 2020 to 2024... Combined.

Oracle by itself took on $43 billion in debt since September. Morgan Stanley expects global AI-related borrowing to hit $570 billion this year: More than double last year. These companies are so convinced AI is the future that they're mortgaging their balance sheets to get there first.

If they're right, it's the greatest capital allocation in history. If they're wrong, it's the greatest debt bubble since the housing crisis.

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🔍 Google just made language barriers feel a lot smaller.

Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a new voice translation system that can translate conversations in real time across more than 70 languages.

Unlike traditional translators that wait for you to finish speaking, Gemini starts translating almost immediately. It listens and speaks at the same time, creating a much more natural flow with barely any delay.

Even more impressive, it preserves the speaker’s pace, tone, and intonation, making translated conversations sound far more human.

The feature is rolling out now in Google Translate on iOS and Android.

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