01Philadelphia Police Call Anthropic's Two-Month Delay on a False Murder Tip 'Unacceptable' [AI Models & Research]Philadelphia's police say it was 'unacceptable' that Anthropic took two months to tell them a test-run Claude had submitted a false tip to the city's unsolved-murders site. The tip sat unread in a spam filter; Anthropic says it terminated the test process and added a validation step for future runs. → source
02A Patient Receives an AI-Designed Virus for the First Time [AI Models & Research]California startup Radical Numerics says its Omnii-1 model designed viruses that clinicians then injected into a patient with an antibiotic-resistant infection, a claimed world first under a physician-led compassionate-use pathway. The claim has not yet faced independent, peer-reviewed checks. → source
03Cody Wilson Claims the First AI-Designed Gun and Fires It [AI Models & Research]"GatGPT," Cody Wilson's weapon-design model, produced a 3D-printed pistol he calls the first AI-made gun; The Verge watched it hit a target at the second attempt after a misfire. New York and California's printer-detection laws are the backdrop, and Wilson already markets a tool that defeats file hashing. → source
04OpenAI's Frontier Models Are Coming to Google Cloud [AI Tools & Ecosystem]Google will host OpenAI's GPT-6.1 models in its Model Garden and bills itself as the only large cloud carrying all three leading closed models. Microsoft remains OpenAI's primary cloud partner, but enterprises can now buy GPT usage through Google Cloud Marketplace. → source
05Blacksmith Hits $1 Billion Ten Months After a $60M Valuation [AI Tools & Ecosystem]The code-testing startup raised a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia and is now valued at $1 billion, against $60 million a year ago. It runs 90 million validation checks a week, up from 5 million in January, as AI-written code floods development teams. → source
06Willison Ships Seam Cutter to Cut the Middle Out of an Image [AI Tools & Ecosystem]Simon Willison shipped Seam Cutter, a browser tool that cuts a seam across an image and slides the two halves apart to remove part of the middle. His use case: redacting a prompt from a stitched screenshot without rebuilding the whole image. → source
07Texas Sues OpenAI and Altman Days After Eight States Filed [AI Applications & Industry]Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued OpenAI and Sam Altman personally, alleging deceptive marketing of ChatGPT as safe and failures to protect children under the state's SCOPE Act. It lands a week after attorneys general in eight states filed similar suits, while federal regulators stay largely hands-off. → source
08Elvis's Music Owners Sue Anthropic Over Claude's Training Data [AI Applications & Industry]Rights holders controlling 274 Elvis Presley songs sued Anthropic, saying Claude's training data included the catalog without permission, with roughly $50 million sought at $150,000 per work. The filing adds Elvis's people to a docket already carrying Universal, Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and BMG. → source
09Grok Publishes the First Seven Minutes of an AI-Generated Odyssey [AI Applications & Industry]Three months after Elon Musk promised a 'historically accurate' full-length AI version of The Odyssey, Grok published the first seven minutes as 'Episode 1 of our Odyssey series.' TechCrunch's critic found occasional shots that could pass for real footage, but called the whole 'completely airless.' → source
10AI Code Cloners Push Indie Game Developers Into Secrecy [AI Applications & Industry]A developer delayed its Steam Next Fest demo over fears AI tools could imitate the game and release a clone first; Tetris-pivot creator Freya Holmér saw vibe-coded copies of her viral prototype appear before her own release. Sharing work-in-progress is becoming a risk for indie developers. → source
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