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Today's topics:

OpenAI Astra cyber risk - OpenAI says Astra may be nearing its Critical cyber capability threshold, triggering tighter security, isolated testing, and pauses on some internal work. Keywords: OpenAI, Astra, cyber risk, zero-day, AI safety.

Claude Code gets autonomy - Anthropic is making Claude Code more autonomous with default auto mode, adding cross-session messaging, and rolling out AI content marking in the EU. Keywords: Claude Code, Anthropic, auto mode, EU AI Act, provenance.

Cursor routes by real traffic - Cursor says its router uses real developer traffic rather than benchmark scores to decide which model handles a coding task at the best cost. Keywords: Cursor, coding assistant, model router, developer traffic, cost-performance.

Search control and web trust - A Meta search rumor, a new reading of Google's strategy, and worries about AI summaries all point to retrieval and digital memory becoming central AI battlegrounds. Keywords: search, Google, Meta, web archives, AI summaries.

AI phone assistant stumbles - Kinney Drugs is scaling back its AI phone assistant after reports of confusing calls and incorrect dosage information, highlighting the risks of automation in healthcare communication. Keywords: healthcare AI, patient safety, pharmacy, phone assistant, Kinney Drugs.

Public clues trace model lineage - A new open method uses architecture, tokenizer overlap, and weight patterns to estimate whether an LLM was trained from scratch or adapted from another base. Keywords: LLM lineage, tokenizer, architecture, Hugging Face, transparency.

Chips specialize, flattery evolves - One analysis says inference is moving toward more specialized silicon, while another warns that AI sycophancy may now appear as polished, ego-friendly disagreement. Keywords: AI chips, inference, Groq, Taalas, sycophancy.

-How Cursor Router Chooses the Best Model for Each Task
-OpenSearch Launches U.S. Agent Skills Hackathon
-LangChain Opens Managed Deep Agents to Public Beta
-Claude Code Adds Cross-Session Messaging
-Alleged Meta Search Engine Buildout for AI
-OpenAI Says It Sent Texas Governor a Letter on Responsible AI Infrastructure ([openai.com](https://openai.com/index/responsible-ai-infrastructure-texas/))
-NextSlide Team Joins OpenAI
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