Google's 9x Math Triumph & Copilot's Security Hole

Anthropic's $965B Valuation & Protein AI Beats AlphaFold

Today's top AI stories: Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, Claude Opus 4.8 launches with dynamic workflows, CZI Biohub releases open-source protein model surpassing AlphaFold3, and more including the mystery of Hy3's popularity, Apple's leaked Siri plans, and Visa's agentic payments investment.

Cognition's $25B Valuation & China's AI Talent Lockdown

Cognition raises $1B at $25B valuation for its AI coding agent Devin. China restricts travel for top AI researchers as the US-China model gap shrinks to 2.7%. Plus: Snowflake's $6B AWS deal, ElevenLabs' genre-switching music model, Robinhood's AI trading agents, and the warning about "AI psychosis" in tech executive suites.

OpenRouter's $1.3B Valuation & The Google Search Backlash

OpenRouter raises $113M at $1.3B valuation, DuckDuckGo sees 30% surge as users flee Google's AI Search overhaul, xAI launches Grok Build and confirms V9-Medium training complete, plus the token-maxxing backlash and AI models being decensored in minutes.

Google's 9x Math Triumph & Copilot's Security Hole

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solves nine open Erdős problems, topping OpenAI's math breakthrough. Plus: Claude Mythos finds 10,000+ security vulnerabilities, a critical Copilot Cowork exploit, the one-person $250M startup, and Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion company.

DeepSeek's Permanent Price Cut & First Humanoid Home Cleaning Service

DeepSeek makes its 75% V4 Pro discount permanent, a new open-source coding agent achieves 94% cache hit, Gatsby launches the first humanoid home cleaning service, Google Cloud faces scrutiny over API key vulnerabilities, and memory costs hit two-thirds of AI chip spending. Plus news on space robots, voice-controlled humanoids, and California's AI worker protections.