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Today's topics:

AI finds zero-days autonomously - Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview uncovered and exploited zero-days end-to-end, pushing coordinated disclosure, defense partnerships, and faster patching timelines in cybersecurity.

Legal fight over OpenAI control - Elon Musk amended his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, seeking massive damages routed to OpenAI’s nonprofit arm and asking to remove Sam Altman from the nonprofit board—raising governance and mission questions.

AI struggles with real documents - Mercor’s stress test shows frontier models do much better on clean text than on image-based finance PDFs, highlighting multimodal extraction errors and brittle financial reasoning in real analyst workflows.

Benchmarks saturate, measurement lags - A LessWrong analysis argues fixed benchmarks like GPQA and longer-horizon suites are getting saturated, making it harder to set credible capability upper bounds and complicating AI governance and safety evaluation.

TPUs, GPUs, and compute power - Epoch AI estimates Google controls a large share of AI compute sold since 2022, largely via in-house TPUs—signaling vertical integration and shifting leverage in the AI hardware supply chain.

Making long-context inference cheaper - TriAttention proposes frequency-domain KV-cache compression for transformers, promising big memory savings and higher throughput for long-context inference on limited GPUs and even Apple Silicon support.

Faster MoE decoding on GPUs - Cursor outlined a “warp decode” approach for MoE inference on NVIDIA Blackwell, aiming to reduce decode overhead and improve output fidelity—important for real-time serving costs and latency.

Agents and coding tools mature - From botctl’s persistent agent ops to SandMLE’s RL training sandbox and Z.ai’s open-source GLM-5.1, the ecosystem is pushing toward longer-running, tool-using agents—while reliability debates continue.

App Store flood meets policy - New iOS app submissions reportedly surged as AI coding tools sped development, while Apple tightens enforcement around apps that can change behavior post-review—reshaping the app pipeline and review workload.

-Frontier AI Models Struggle to Read and Compute From Real Finance Documents
-TriAttention open-sourced to compress transformer KV cache for faster long-context reasoning
-Weights & Biases releases ebook on building and deploying physical AI systems
-Musk Seeks to Redirect OpenAI Lawsuit Damages to Nonprofit, Pushes to Remove