Top AI and tech news of the last week.
Research and security
🤖 Anthropic's Mythos found 10,000+ vulnerabilities
The company's new cyber model dug up tens of thousands of bugs in real-world code in a short time — AI for cybersecurity is moving from talking points into industrial-scale deployment.
🤯 DeepMind agent closed 9 open Erdős problems
The AI independently solved 9 of the 353 unsolved problems left by the legendary mathematician, spending just a couple hundred dollars on each.
🏛 The US is trying to stop AI recreations of dead pilots' voices
Enthusiasts are reconstructing cockpit recordings from spectrograms in NTSB investigation materials, sidestepping the publication ban — the agency has temporarily locked access to its investigation archive.
Society and search
🎭 Even AI haters are stuck using Google search
Wired warns: AI-generated answers are so convenient they're crowding out the classic web — and along with it, the writers, artists, and researchers the web feeds on.
💼 "AI washing": companies are frantically repainting themselves AI
The Guardian reports on how PR agencies are mass-rewriting websites and press releases to look "tech" — even when there's no actual AI inside yet.
Hardware, robots, and music
🛠 An AI agent got a physical body
A Wired journalist plugged OpenClaw into a robot and set it loose in the real world — the coding skills of new models are dramatically lowering the bar for building and deploying robots. Our OpenClaw explainer.
📊 Memory is almost two-thirds of an AI chip's cost
Fresh data from epoch.ai: DRAM and HBM now cost more than the compute die itself. Hence the global shortage — and pricier smartphones.
🎵 Spotify is launching paid AI covers and remixes
The service struck a licensing deal with Universal Music Group to generate covers from its catalog — streaming revenue will flow back to the original rights holders. How AI is reshaping music platforms.