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

OpenAI expanded Daybreak with an upgraded Codex Security tool that scans code then drafts a tested fix for a human to approve. Since March it has covered over 30 million commits across 30,000 codebases and helped close more than 500,000 findings. OpenAI also released GPT-5.5-Cyber which reached a record 85.6 percent on the CyberGym test and goes only to verified defenders. Security firms like Cloudflare and CrowdStrike can now run it inside their own products.

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Getting carded at your desk sounds interesting. And according to Anthropic, it might happen. In order to allow users to appeal having their account flagged for potentially fraudulent activity (rather than outright banning them), the AI giant might ask Claude users to verify their age and identity by uploading their government-issued documents.

Meta just named Indian entrepreneur Kunal Shah as WhatsApp’s next Chief, succeeding Will Cathcart, who is stepping down after nearly seven years at the helm to take on a new product-building role at the company. The move comes alongside a Meta-led $900 million financing round for Shah’s Indian fintech giant CRED (but will involve Shah stepping down as CEO).

Nvidia has created a lab where robot makers and customers can run safety tests before going to regulators to receive the necessary certifications. Engineers at the lab can help with pre-inspection work and engineering tweaks as needed. Robot safety design is much more complicated than safety design for autonomous vehicles, which generally just involves avoiding contact with people and other objects.

Google just put $75M behind indie film studio A24, pairing it with DeepMind to provide access to AI infrastructure and researchers — positioning the coming tools as filmmaker-shaped workflows rather than complete AI movie generation. The deal gives Google its first studio stake, while A24 gets DeepMind research support across several projects without handing over any film library or data.

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🤝 SpaceX Signed a $6.3Bn Compute Deal With AI Startup Reflection

🌡️ UPS is Investing $48M in Temperature-Controlled Facilities

🏛️ $7T Fund Stakes You in OpenAI and Anthropic

🔌 Groq Bounces Back With $650M, Pivots to Neocloud After Nvidia Poached Its CEO.

🛡️ UK NCSC Pushes Leaders to Prepare for AI-Driven Cyberattacks.

🇨🇳 China claims No. 2 global AI lab ranking

💰 Coinbase adds Anthropic, OpenAI pre-IPO futures

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