As of: 2026-10-10 14:45 CEST.
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# AI news, newest first, page 16

Every AI event we have logged, newest first: 1,105 events, each dated and sourced. Page 16 of 23, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened.

## Tuesday 14 July 2026

- [New York becomes the first US state to pause data center permitting](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-14-new-york-data-center-moratorium/) (Policy & safety; State of New York). This is the first statewide brake on AI-era data center construction in the US, and a reference point for the local backlash that Amazon, Microsoft and others are now responding to with concessions. Source: https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/kristen-gonzalez/ny-state-senator-kristen-gonzalez-passes-data-center

## Monday 13 July 2026

- [Xiaomi open-sources Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, a 38B unified world model that generates multi-view robot scenes and training data](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-13-xiaomi-robotics-u0/) (Open source; Xiaomi). Like NVIDIA's Cosmos, it bets that generated data can offset the shortage of real robot data. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11643

## Sunday 12 July 2026

- [CEN-CENELEC approves EN 18286, the first harmonised standard for the EU AI Act](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-12-en-18286-first-eu-ai-act-standard/) (Policy & safety; CEN-CENELEC, European Union). Harmonised standards are how companies show compliance with the AI Act in practice. Source: https://www.cencenelec.eu/news-events/news/2026/en-in-the-spotlight/2026-07-30-ai-quality-management/

## Friday 10 July 2026

- [Apple sues OpenAI and two ex-Apple engineers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-10-apple-sues-openai-trade-secrets/) (Business; Apple, OpenAI; major). It is the most direct legal clash between Apple and an AI lab, and it could slow OpenAI's first consumer devices (a pocket-sized Ive device was expected in early 2027). Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft/

## Thursday 9 July 2026

- [OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6 after government-gated preview](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-gpt-5-6-sol-terra-luna/) (Model releases; OpenAI; major). First frontier model whose public release was explicitly gated by US government review, and the model family involved in the July 2026 sandbox-escape incident. Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/
- [OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, a long-running agent for office work](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-chatgpt-work/) (Agents; OpenAI; major). Marks OpenAI's move from chat assistant to a general long-horizon "do the work" agent for knowledge workers, built on the Codex agent stack. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-09/openai-unveils-chatgpt-work-agent-to-field-tasks-for-hours
- [Fidji Simo steps down as OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment for health reasons](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-fidji-simo-steps-down-openai/) (Business; OpenAI). Her portfolio was split between president Greg Brockman, CFO Sarah Friar and chief strategy officer Jason Kwon. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/fidji-simo-steps-down-from-openais-no-2-role/
- [Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1 and opens the Meta Model API public preview](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-meta-muse-spark-1-1-model-api/) (Model releases; Meta). Meta, historically a distributor of free Llama weights, now sells API access to its frontier model and competes directly with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google for developers building agents. Source: https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/
- [Anthropic: LLMs fail at direct robot joint control but succeed supervising controllers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-09-anthropic-claude-plays-robotics/) (Robotics; Anthropic). The study measures how far general frontier models are from embodied control. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-plays-robotics

## Wednesday 8 July 2026

- [OpenAI launches GPT-Live, full-duplex voice models replacing ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-08-openai-gpt-live-chatgpt-voice/) (Model releases; OpenAI; major). ChatGPT's default voice experience moved to a full-duplex model with a separate "thinker" behind it, narrowing the gap between natural conversation and capable agents for one of the largest voice-assistant user bases. Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/
- [OpenAI publishes principles for government and national-security partnerships](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-08-openai-national-security-principles/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI). This is OpenAI's written red lines for military and police use, published while the US government was fighting Anthropic over similar restrictions. Source: https://openai.com/index/government-national-security-partnerships/
- [Mistral enters robotics with Robostral Navigate, an 8B single-camera navigation model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-08-mistral-robostral-navigate/) (Robotics; Mistral AI). Shows sim-only training reaching SOTA on a standard embodied-navigation benchmark, and Mistral's diversification ahead of its record September raise. Source: https://mistral.ai/news/robostral-navigate/
- [Modular pretraining lets dangerous capabilities be switched off per module](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-08-anthropic-ae-studio-modular-pretraining-gram/) (Research; Anthropic, AE Studio). It points to tiered access, where vetted users get a model with, say, the virology module and the public does not, without training separate models. Source: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/modular-pretraining/

## Tuesday 7 July 2026

- [EU Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-07-eu-action-plan-cybersecurity-ai/) (Policy & safety; European Commission, ENISA). It is the EU's main policy answer to restricted-release frontier cyber models. Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-presents-eu-action-plan-cybersecurity-and-artificial-intelligence

## Monday 6 July 2026

- [Anthropic finds a "global workspace" inside Claude using a Jacobian lens](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-06-anthropic-global-workspace-j-lens/) (Research; Anthropic; major). It gives a way to read concepts a model is actively using but not saying, which could be used to detect hidden reasoning about deception or prompt injection. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
- [General Intuition and Kyutai release MIRA, a real-time multiplayer world model of Rocket League](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-06-mira-multiplayer-world-model/) (Research; General Intuition, Kyutai, Epic Games). Most interactive world models (Genie 3, Oasis) simulate one agent. Source: https://mira-wm.com/blog-post/

## Thursday 2 July 2026

- [Mistral releases Leanstral 1.5, an open-weights Lean 4 proof agent that saturates miniF2F and solves 587/672 PutnamBench problems](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-02-mistral-leanstral-1-5/) (Open source; Mistral AI). Formal proof was a frontier-lab capability (AlphaProof, Aristotle, Seed-Prover) through 2025. Source: https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5
- [Anthropic details Fable 5's four-tier cyber classifiers and proposes a Cyber Jailbreak Severity (CJS) scale](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-02-anthropic-fable-5-cyber-safeguards-jailbreak-severity/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic). It shows how a lab gates Mythos-class cyber capability in practice. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-safeguards-jailbreak-framework

## Wednesday 1 July 2026

- [Hidden code in Claude Code that flagged likely Chinese users and AI-lab proxies is exposed and removed; China's NVDB calls it a 'backdoor' and Alibaba bans the tool](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-01-claude-code-hidden-china-user-markers/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic, Alibaba). It showed how far frontier labs had gone in the fight against distillation, and how much trust coding agents need, since they run with full access to developers' machines. Source: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/01/anthropic-is-removing-its-covert-code-for-catching-chinese-competitors/5265366
- [xAI launches Grok Voice Agent Builder, a no-code platform for phone voice agents](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-01-xai-grok-voice-agent-builder/) (Products; xAI, SpaceX). Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-voice-agent-builder

## July 2026, day not recorded

- [AI-assisted counterexample answers Grothendieck's question on finite flat group schemes, merged into Mathlib](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-01-grothendieck-group-scheme-counterexample/) (Science & math; OpenAI, Anthropic). Kevin Buzzard said this mattered more to him than the Erdős results because it lies in "an area of mathematics that I personally find more interesting". Source: https://antieau.github.io/2026/08/10/akhil-mathew-ai.html

## Tuesday 30 June 2026

- [Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, "the most agentic Sonnet yet"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-30-claude-sonnet-5/) (Model releases; Anthropic). It moved Opus-4.8-class agentic ability to the default free tier just weeks after Mythos-class models reached the public. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5
- [Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for researchers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-30-claude-science/) (Products; Anthropic). It was Anthropic's first dedicated vertical product for science, a precursor to its wet lab and the Model Hardware Standard. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-support-for-scientists
- [Gemini Omni Flash opens to developers via the Gemini API](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-30-gemini-omni-flash-api/) (Media generation; Google). API access turned Omni from a consumer feature into a building block; third-party creative tools began integrating it (Adobe Firefly, Figma Weave and Runway integrated the later 1.1 version). Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog

## Monday 29 June 2026

- [Machine-learning screen predicts two new kagome superconductors, confirmed in the lab](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-29-ml-screened-kagome-superconductors/) (Science & math; Aalto University, Rice University). It is a modest but clean prediction-then-confirmation loop in superconductor research, a field full of hype. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260701205006.htm

## Friday 26 June 2026

- ["A Face Only A Mother Could Love" wins the Grand Prix at Runway's 2026 AI Film Festival](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-26-runway-ai-film-festival-2026-winners/) (Culture; Runway). Along with the Higgsfield Global Film Festival ($1M), CapCut CRE[AI]TE, the Seoul International AI Film Festival and the Reply AI Film Festival, it shows AI film becoming a festival circuit with its own awards in 2026. Source: https://x.com/runwayml/status/2070591928953925793

## Thursday 25 June 2026

- [US government asks OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 release to approved partners](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-25-us-government-gates-gpt-5-6-release/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI, US Government; major). The first time a US frontier-model release was explicitly gated by federal review — a de facto pre-deployment approval regime driven by cyber-offense concerns, arriving without new legislation. Source: https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/

## Wednesday 24 June 2026

- [Anthropic tells US senators and the White House that Alibaba's Qwen lab ran the largest known distillation campaign on Claude (28.8M exchanges)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-24-anthropic-accuses-alibaba-qwen-distillation/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic, Alibaba). It moved the distillation dispute from blog posts to Congress and put Alibaba, China's biggest open-weights lab, at its centre. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-of-illicitly-accessing-its-ai-models

## Monday 22 June 2026

- [Micron and Anthropic sign a memory supply, co-design and investment deal](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-22-micron-anthropic-strategic-agreement/) (Chips & compute; Micron, Anthropic). Memory, HBM above all, is one of the tightest bottlenecks in AI compute in 2026. Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/22/3315307/14450/en/micron-and-anthropic-announce-strategic-agreement-to-scale-next-generation-ai-infrastructure.html

## Wednesday 17 June 2026

- [Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer, Google's Gemini co-lead, leaves for OpenAI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-17-noam-shazeer-leaves-google-for-openai/) (Business; OpenAI, Google). It was a significant talent loss for Google DeepMind during a difficult Gemini 3.5 cycle and a major hire for OpenAI's research organisation. Source: https://x.com/NoamShazeer/status/2067400851438932297
- [OpenAI releases LifeSciBench, 750 expert-written life-science research tasks](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-17-openai-lifescibench/) (Benchmarks; OpenAI). It is a large, expert-graded measure of AI for biology research. Source: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/b4299379-0a97-4ffa-8b9b-c3fbb299caa9/lifescibench_preprint.pdf

## Tuesday 16 June 2026

- [SpaceX exercises its option to buy Cursor maker Anysphere for $60B in stock](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-16-spacex-acquires-cursor/) (Business; SpaceX, Cursor, SpaceXAI; major). The deal gave Musk's AI effort one of the most widely used AI coding products, placing SpaceXAI in direct competition with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001181412/000162828026056945/spcx-20260814.htm

## Friday 12 June 2026

- [US export controls force Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-12-us-export-controls-suspend-fable-5/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic; major). This is the first known case of a US government export-control action forcing a lab to withdraw a released frontier model. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5
- [SpaceX (incl. xAI) lists on Nasdaq in record $75B IPO](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-12-spacex-ipo-record/) (Business; SpaceX, xAI; major). Because SpaceX had absorbed xAI earlier in 2026, this was also effectively the first public listing of a frontier AI lab. Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/11/nx-s1-5853199/spacex-ipo-price-elon-musk
- ["Claude Fable 5 Made This Entire Video By Itself"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-12-model-made-this-entire-video-genre/) (Culture; Community). It is the talking-head counterpart of Claude Pop: an informal, public benchmark of long-horizon agency, where the output is a finished piece of media rather than a score. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONmaDdOBGig

## Wednesday 10 June 2026

- [AI systems pass 7 of 10 unpublished research problems in First Proof's second batch](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-10-first-proof-second-batch/) (Benchmarks; First Proof Foundation, ETH Zurich, OpenAI, UCLA, Princeton University). It is the most carefully refereed measurement so far of AI on genuine research problems. Source: https://1stproof.org/assets/docs/report.pdf
- [Dario Amodei publishes "Policy on the AI Exponential", calling for binding frontier-AI regulation](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-10-dario-amodei-policy-on-the-ai-exponential/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic). It is the most concrete regulatory program a frontier-lab CEO had published up to then, and it set up the three-step pacing plan that followed three months later. Source: https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential

## Tuesday 9 June 2026

- [Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-09-claude-fable-5-mythos-5/) (Model releases; Anthropic; historic). This was the first time the class of model Anthropic had withheld in April (Mythos Preview) became available to the public. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
- [Google launches Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, voice-preserving real-time speech translation in 70+ languages](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-09-gemini-3-5-live-translate/) (Model releases; Google). Voice-preserving simultaneous interpretation moved from demos into products used by hundreds of millions of people, competing directly with OpenAI's gpt-realtime-translate released a month earlier. Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-live-3-5-translate/
- [Seattle City Council unanimously passes a one-year emergency moratorium on large AI data centers; Oct 4 statewide protests call for more](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-09-seattle-data-center-moratorium/) (Policy & safety; Seattle City Council). Local moratoria (Seattle; New York state in July) and organised protest are a growing constraint on AI compute build-out. Source: https://council.seattle.gov/2026/06/09/city-council-passes-emergency-data-center-moratorium-and-policy-framework/

## Monday 8 June 2026

- [OpenAI confidentially submits a draft S-1 for an IPO, a week after Anthropic](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-08-openai-confidential-s1-ipo/) (Business; OpenAI; major). With both leading frontier labs in SEC review, the two biggest AI companies moved toward public markets in the same month. Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-submits-confidential-s-1/
- [WWDC 2026: Apple unveils Siri AI and new Apple Foundation Models built with Google's Gemini](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-08-wwdc-2026-siri-ai-gemini/) (Products; Apple, Google; major). Apple, the largest consumer device platform, effectively conceded it could not build a frontier-class assistant alone and partnered with Google, while keeping inference on its own privacy infrastructure. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/wwdc-2026-everything-announced-on-siri-ai-os-27-apple-intelligence-and-more/

## Saturday 6 June 2026

- [White House senior AI policy adviser Sriram Krishnan announces he will leave at the end of June 2026](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-06-sriram-krishnan-leaves-white-house/) (Policy & safety; White House). These departures help explain the gap that Trump's September 2026 "AI Force" pledge and the October Super Intelligence Force (chair Jay Clayton) were meant to fill. Source: https://gvwire.com/2026/06/06/white-house-ai-policy-adviser-krishnan-to-leave-position/

## Friday 5 June 2026

- [Computationally designed broad coronavirus vaccine is safe and immunogenic in first human trial](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-05-ai-designed-coronavirus-vaccine-trial/) (Science & math; University of Cambridge, DIOSynVax). It is an early human validation of computer-designed vaccine antigens, relevant to pandemic preparedness. Source: https://www.diosynvax.com/

## Thursday 4 June 2026

- [Anthropic's 'When AI builds itself'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-04-anthropic-when-ai-builds-itself/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic, Anthropic Institute; major). It is the clearest statement by a frontier lab that recursive self-improvement is a near-term planning case, together with a concrete, conditional pause offer. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

## Tuesday 2 June 2026

- [Microsoft launches seven in-house MAI models at Build 2026, led by MAI-Thinking-1](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-microsoft-mai-models-build-2026/) (Model releases; Microsoft; major). Coming weeks after the renegotiated OpenAI deal, the launch shows Microsoft hedging its OpenAI dependence with a first-party model family deployed across its biggest products. Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-launching-seven-new-mai-models/
- [Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics sets community norms for AI in maths (4,000+ signatories)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-leiden-declaration-ai-mathematics/) (Policy & safety; Lorentz Center, International Mathematical Union). It is the broadest grassroots statement of mathematicians' norms on AI: disclosure, attribution, integrity of proof, and independence from industry. Source: https://leidendeclaration.ai
- [NeurIPS 2026: 28% of position-track submissions score 100% AI-written, and 178 are desk-rejected](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-neurips-2026-position-track-ai-papers/) (Policy & safety; NeurIPS, Pangram Labs). It was the first major ML venue to desk-reject papers at scale based on an AI-text detector. Source: https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/ai-generated-papers-in-the-neurips-2026-position-paper-track/

## Monday 1 June 2026

- [NVIDIA releases Cosmos 3, an open omni-model for physical AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-01-nvidia-cosmos-3-open-release/) (Open source; NVIDIA). It is the largest open world model aimed at robotics and autonomous vehicles. Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/cosmos-3-for-physical-ai
- [MiniMax M3: open-weights 428B MoE with 1M context and native multimodality](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-01-minimax-m3/) (Model releases; MiniMax). M3 made 1M context + native multimodality + frontier-ish coding available as open weights at ~1/20th of Western frontier prices. Source: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/release-notes/models

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