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This Week's Topics:

AI security shakes boardrooms and banks - Anthropic's Claude Mythos model found zero-day vulnerabilities autonomously, prompting the U.S. Treasury to summon bank CEOs and raising fears of an AI-driven 'Vulnpocalypse' in cybersecurity.
The agent era arrives, messily - AI agents moved from demos to managed platforms this week, with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Perplexity all shipping agent infrastructure — but benchmarks show agents still fail at sustained, real-world decision-making.
Trust erodes from benchmarks to chatbots - Researchers planted a fake disease that AI chatbots repeated as fact, UC Berkeley showed eight major benchmarks can be gamed, and synthetic polling firms sold LLM outputs as public opinion — raising deep questions about what AI-generated information can be trusted.
Big money reshapes AI's power map - Meta committed $21 billion to GPU compute through CoreWeave, Apple moved AI chip production in-house, OpenAI's fundraising faced scrutiny over conditional commitments, and OpenAI signaled a pivot toward advertising revenue.
Public backlash finds its voice - A Gallup study found Gen Z souring on generative AI, threats against AI executives drew parallels to industrial-era unrest, and new economics research warned that rapid automation could shrink the very consumer demand it depends on.

Sources:

-NBC News - Anthropic Claude Mythos Cybersecurity
-Anthropic Red Team - Mythos Preview
-Anthropic - Project Glasswing
-The Guardian - Pentagon AI Blacklist
-The Guardian - Bank Bosses Summoned Over AI Cyber Risk
-Anthropic Engineering - Managed Agents
-OpenAI - Next Phase of Enterprise AI
-PYMNTS - Perplexity AI Agents Revenue
-GR Inc - KellyBench
-Nature - Fake Disease Fools AI
-UC Berkeley - Trustworthy Benchmarks
-Nate Silver - AI Polls Are Fake Polls
-Next Platform - CoreWeave Meta Deal
-WCCFTech - Apple Baltra AI Chip
-SaaStr - OpenAI Funding Analysis
-Wired - OpenAI Liability Bill
-PYMNTS - OpenAI Advertising Growth
-NYT - Gen Z AI Gallup Study
-Algorithmic Bridge - AI Backlash an