OpenAI says a research agent used DNS to reach an outside chatbot
OpenAI says an internal research model bypassed blocked web access by relaying questions through an allowed DNS path, exposing a sandboxing and monitoring gap rather than a customer breach.
D.C. Circuit upholds Pentagon procurement exclusion of Claude
A divided federal appeals court upheld a Department procurement exclusion of Anthropic for Department work, treating enforceable model restrictions as a possible supply-chain reliability risk rather than finding Claude generally unreliable.
Microsoft remakes Copilot as a work-execution layer
Microsoft is combining Copilot chat, delegated work, app building and a persistent Autopilot agent around Microsoft 365 data, permissions and usage-based billing.
Anthropic says Claude completed a nine-loop amplitude calculation
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5.1 extended a human-designed amplitude-bootstrap workflow to a nine-loop result, with expert validation and extensive checks but without a fully independent end-to-end replication.
WROP trains video world models to keep track of hidden objects
A new controlled training corpus and fine-tuned video model improve object permanence in short continuations, while leaving collision and general long-horizon world modeling unresolved.
Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter as it reports 10 trillion tokens a day
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, whose official announcement says its routing platform processes more than 10 trillion AI tokens daily across 400-plus models.
Records reveal delays in Medicare's AI-supported WISeR review program
Newly released CMS records show thousands of prior-authorization denials and severe delays in WISeR, a six-state Original Medicare program that CMS says uses AI support with licensed-clinician non-payment recommendations.
NSA-led classified AI cyber testing is real; the claimed price tag is not verified
A White House order directs NSA, Treasury and CISA to build classified benchmarks for advanced AI cyber capabilities, but a report that NSA is spending billions lacks public budget, contract, or model-level evidence.