📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

The NYT just reported that U.S. officials found Alice Huang, an exec at Singapore-based data center firm Megaspeed, was allegedly passing intelligence to Beijing while keeping close ties with Jensen Huang, with Trump briefed about a year ago. It’s unclear what Ms. Huang passed to Beijing or its value, but officials worried she could offer insight into Trump’s view on chip sales to China, and into Nvidia itself.

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Anthropic introduced “self-assessment,” a technique where Claude reviews the chat after each reply and flags potential misuse, saying the system has been active since June and catching large-scale abuse that might otherwise be missed. Claude gives each conversation a quick safety verdict (whether it’s harmful, what kind of harm, and how urgent), which helps prioritize cases for human review.

Neuralink has enabled a patient to make phone calls without speaking, while testing a way to command Grok directly through brain signals. Neuralink's Bloom app lets a participant who cannot speak make iPhone calls by sending speech decoded from brain signals directly into the call. Neuralink prototyped a Grok AI agent that users can trigger by imagining saying "Hey Neuralink" followed by a task they want completed.

Turns out the delivery wars end with one app buying the other: DoorDash agreed Thursday to acquire Instacart for $17 billion, or $65 a share, with both boards already on board. Restaurant takeout meets grocery. DoorDash says it will keep Instacart's brand and app, and the two will run separately until the deal closes. Your burrito and your avocados may soon share a network.

Mistral just handed the world a trillion-parameter model to run on its own hardware. The French lab released weights for Mistral Large 4, nicknamed "Le Chonk," so businesses and governments can deploy it themselves. It says the model matches China's GLM-5.3 on cyber work while using 47 percent fewer tokens per task.

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🏠 Thrive Holdings is Buying ADT in a $15.3Bn Deal

🔒 GM Will Pay $220M to Settle Over Selling Driver Data

🚪 Reddit is Moving to a Logged-In Experience as Search Dries Up

🧹 Designers are “un-slopping” vibe-coded websites, cleaning up messy AI-made interfaces

📉 Artificial Analysis just dropped v5 of its Intelligence Index, with tougher private tests

🛒 Amazon added 100+ shopping capabilities to Alexa

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