Fudan study finds AI models self-replicate like computer worms

A r/ClaudeAI user says a couple of hours of work with the new Opus model produced a playable Pokémon battle demo, inspired by a tweet. No code, repo, or benchmark details were shared.

Latent Space podcast episode with OpenRouter co-founder and CEO Alex Atallah and AMP's Anjney Midha traces the company from the first wave of Llama, Alpaca, Mistral and Midjourney to a neutral routing layer serving over 10 million developers and more than 10 trillion tokens per day.

Claude Code already runs tests, type checks, and linters; the walkthrough shows adding more self-verification so it completes more work without back-and-forth. Docs link points to Claude Code skills for running and verifying an app.

Crusoe ended a $1.25B agreement for 29 of Boom's 42-megawatt Superpower turbines, which were to begin delivering in 2027. Boom CEO Blake Scholl said turbines are no longer in Crusoe's near-term power mix at Abilene, where Crusoe supplies computing to OpenAI.

The 4B model plays on a live Minecraft 1.20.4 server by scoring candidate commands from text game state (inventory, nearby blocks, entities) rather than generating text. It reached an iron pickaxe.

Digital Music News op-ed argues AI music is dividing into a transient synthetic economy and an artist-centered business built on identity, ownership, relationships and fans. Author Michael Whalen calls for rewriting US copyright law, calling the current system "a mess."

Users reported 401 "Incorrect API key provided" errors across Codex and ChatGPT, with the outage appearing widespread per X/Twitter reports. OpenAI's status page initially showed nothing before an incident was added.