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- ·google
Google Missed Its Own Deadline. Again. And Four Researchers Just Left.
Gemini 3.5 Pro missed its June GA window as Q2 closes today. Four senior Gemini researchers announced they're joining Anthropic the same week. The timing is the story.
- ·anthropic
Anthropic Told the Senate That Alibaba Queried Claude 28.8 Million Times
Anthropic accused Alibaba-linked operators of running 28.8 million Claude interactions through 25,000 fake accounts to harvest model capabilities for Qwen.
- ·ai talent
The Nobel Laureate Who Joined Anthropic Mid-Crisis
John Jumper, the AlphaFold creator who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic, while Fable 5 was still offline under a US export ban.
- ·openai
OpenAI Shipped a Cyber Model That Writes Exploits. The Vetting Is the Point.
GPT-5.5-Cyber went to full release June 22, scoring record highs on exploit benchmarks. The model's safety story is the access program wrapped around it.
- ·ai talent
Google Lost the Transformer's Co-Author. Then AlphaFold. Same Week.
Noam Shazeer, co-author of "Attention Is All You Need," left Google for OpenAI on June 18. Days later, Nobel laureate John Jumper left for Anthropic. Both exits land at once.
- ·openai
OpenAI's Patch the Planet Bets the Bottleneck Is Patching, Not Finding
OpenAI launched GPT-5.5-Cyber and Patch the Planet with Trail of Bits, arguing AI has flipped the security bottleneck from finding bugs to fixing them.
- ·anthropic
The Fable 5 Jailbreak Was Three Words Long
Ten days into the Fable 5 export ban, the jailbreak that triggered it turns out to be "Fix this code." Experts signing open letters say the cure is worse than the disease.
- ·openai
OpenAI Bought the Tools Python Developers Actually Trust
OpenAI acquired Astral, maker of uv, Ruff, and ty, the Python tooling millions of developers rely on, to fold them into Codex. The open-source community is uneasy.