AI Just Solved an 80-Year Math Problem. And Then Things Got Stranger.

Claude Opus 4.8 Is Out. The Benchmark Numbers Aren't the Story.

Anthropic dropped Opus 4.8 yesterday — same price, better coding scores, and a four-fold reduction in silent code bugs. But the real headline is alignment: Opus 4.8 scores at near-Mythos levels on misalignment metrics, quietly bringing the restricted model's safety profile into the general tier. Plus: Figure AI's robots sorted 250,000 packages in 200 hours with zero failures, and California's AI legislation just hit its crossover deadline with thirty bills in play and no federal law in sight.

Three of the Big Four Are Now Running on Claude. Here's Why That's a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds.

KPMG just deployed Claude to 276,000 employees across 138 countries — joining Deloitte's 470,000 and PwC's expanded rollout. Together, three of the four largest professional services firms on earth are now running on Anthropic. We break down what KPMG's deal actually does, why the Big Four are a distribution flywheel that no benchmark can measure, preview Microsoft Build next Monday, and close out the most extraordinary week in AI news this year.

AI Found 10,000 Critical Software Bugs in One Month. Patches Can't Keep Up.

Anthropic's Project Glasswing one-month update is out — Claude Mythos Preview helped fifty partner organizations find over 10,000 high and critical vulnerabilities in production software, including a 27-year-old OpenBSD bug. Some organizations can't patch them as fast as they're being found. We break down what that means for the security landscape, cover the MIT study showing AI has nearly doubled federal pro se lawsuit filings, and close out the most extraordinary ten days in AI news this year.

China Just Put Its Top AI Researchers Under Travel Restrictions.

Bloomberg broke this morning that China is restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals at Alibaba and DeepSeek — requiring government approval before any international trip. It's the human capital version of U.S. chip export controls, and it signals China is done treating AI talent as free agents. We cover what it means for the global AI race, Anthropic's $200 million Gates Foundation bet on AI for the developing world, and a Samsung union's landmark court challenge to AI-driven layoffs.

Apple's New Siri Runs on Google Gemini. WWDC Is June 8th. Here's What's Coming.

iOS 27 brings a fully rebuilt Siri powered by a $1 billion-a-year Google Gemini deal — a standalone chatbot app with conversation history, web search, and multi-step task execution. We preview what Tim Cook will show at his final WWDC keynote on June 8th, go deep on what Magnifica Humanitas actually argues now that the full text is out, and cover Google's antitrust appeal filing as it simultaneously fights monopoly charges and announces it powers Siri.