Modal hits $1B ARR and $16B Series D, 3x usage in 5 months

Schmidt, former Google CEO and current Relativity Space CEO, says the two-year AI lead he once estimated has changed, per the summit interview. He also serves as a Pentagon advisor.

New Scientist interviews Terence Tao, author of Six Maths Essentials, on whether mathematics has a future as AI pushes the field to what the video calls a crisis point. The conversation centers on AI's race to solve a famous math problem.

The KISS singer, 77, told NewsNation's "The Hill with Blake Burman" that AI's effect on music "doesn't matter — the future is here." He contrasted with thousands of artists, including Radiohead and ABBA members, who signed a 2024 letter against unlicensed training on creative works.

A r/Singularity post argues AI's entry into particle physics resembles the narrow, domain-specific breakthrough pattern of AlphaFold rather than general intelligence. The thread names πLabs but offers no benchmark, dataset, or published result.

A surgeon whose research focuses on AI in healthcare built a physics-based soccer game entirely with Claude Code, mostly using Opus models on a Max plan. The workflow is iterative: play the build, then tell Claude Code what to change.

An Anthropic executive said mass cybersecurity disruptions will "get a lot worse before they get better," per Bloomberg. The article examines why AI is making cyberattacks harder to stop.

Every ~30 seconds Claude Code sends each background agent's full transcript to its own model (usually Opus) to generate a 3-5 word status line, on by default since 2.1.232 in August 2026 with no setting to disable it. Issue #86879 collects four independent measurements of 18-26%.