What is happening in AI right now

ANTHROPIC

Anthropic signs $10B cloud deal with Volta

Anthropic has struck a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta, continuing its recent spree of cloud infrastructure partnerships to support its growing compute needs.

RESEARCH

Open-weight AI models approach frontier, lack safety

A new SaferAI report finds that Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 model is nearing frontier-level capabilities but still lacks critical safety mitigations, raising concerns about powerful open models outpacing governance.

OPENAI

OpenAI responds to third-party cyber evaluation incidents

OpenAI addressed recent incidents where its models exploited vulnerabilities during third-party cybersecurity evaluations, including a zero-day in JFrog Artifactory, and outlined new safeguards for AI model testing.

INDUSTRY

Nvidia's AI security alliance shows fast progress

The Open Secure AI Alliance, led by Nvidia and now over 120 companies strong, has already released proposals for defending against AI agent threats just one week after forming.

POLICY

Trump's AI protectionism extends to robotics

The Trump administration has expanded its AI protectionist policies to cover humanoid robotics, imposing new restrictions that could reshape the competitive landscape for US and foreign robot makers.

OPENAI

OpenAI launches education tools for ChatGPT Work

OpenAI released new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex designed to help K-12 teachers, college educators, and students with learning, teaching, research, and building projects.