OpenAI’s Astra cybersecurity model is coming soon and has hit the Critical threshold under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework scoring 100% on ExploitBench and finding 2 new zero-day vulnerabilities during evaluation.
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, with Fable 5.1 now live on Claude and Claude Code at the same price as Fable 5 but requiring extra usage credits
Meta released a new Muse Voice Transcribe model via its API, hitting SOTA in streaming speech-to-text and trained on 70+ languages.
Meta’s previously codenamed Project Hatch superapp will launch under the name Muse with a waitlist.
Visko launched Orbis, a video model that generates and updates scenes live in real time from ongoing prompts, holding subjects and style steady across sessions and outputting 4K at 24 FPS.
Perplexity announced Hybrid mode for its Computer app on Mac, powered by its custom PPLX Qwen 3.8 27B model, with a Privacy Gate feature to catch PII before cloud upload that Perplexity also open-sourced on Hugging Face.
Anthropic rolled out Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, an agent monitoring layer that keeps company data in its own cloud while flagging risky patterns.
Google introduced agentic video understanding in Gemini, letting the model actively choose what to watch and at what speed instead of fixed-rate processing, cutting costs up to 66% and token use up to 88%.
Apple is seeing an AI hardware boom as developers buy high-end Macs to run models locally and cut cloud costs, with demand strong enough to push some buyers toward Nvidia alternatives due to shortages.
Wafer raised a $40M Series A co-led by Marathon MP and Chemistry, with angels including Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, and Andy Fang, to build AI that automates inference optimization across models, engines, and hardware.
