• OpenAI Acquires Python Toolmaker Astral
  • Makers of uv, ruff, and ty join OpenAI
  • Tools widely adopted across Python ecosystem
  • Simon Willison, The Register
• Uber Bets $1.25B on Rivian Robotaxis
  • 50,000 Rivian robotaxis coming to Uber fleet
  • Largest autonomous vehicle supply deal to date
  • Wall Street Journal, Engadget
• Pentagon Flags Anthropic Foreign Workforce
  • Court filing cites workers from China
  • DoD raising national security concerns
  • Axios
• White House Sends Congress AI Framework Friday
  • Regulation proposals expected Friday per sources
  • Policy disagreements on the Hill unresolved
  • Axios

• OpenAI Monitors Coding Agents for Misalignment
  • Chain-of-thought monitoring on real deployments
  • Aimed at detecting risks and safety gaps
  • OpenAI
• Meta Replaces Human Moderators with AI
  • Shift away from human content review teams
  • Accelerates existing AI moderation push
  • Engadget
• Signal Creator Helps Encrypt Meta AI
  • Moxie Marlinspike advising on privacy architecture
  • Brings end-to-end encryption principles to AI
  • Wired
• Google Reshuffles Browser Agent Team
  • Project Mariner team restructured
  • Amid intensifying web agent competition
  • Wired

• Anthropic Briefs House Homeland Security Committee
  • Bipartisan closed-door session with Jack Clark
  • Meeting only briefly touched on core AI concerns
  • Axios
• UK Retreats on AI Copyright Carve-Out
  • Artists and creators staged high-profile revolt
  • Government backs down on training data exception
  • The Register
• FBI and DIA Buying Citizens' Location Data
  • Agencies purchasing from commercial data brokers
  • Bypasses warrant requirements for surveillance
  • 9to5Mac

• Attackers Exploit Critical SharePoint Flaw
  • Unknown threat actors active in the wild
  • Another critical bug in the SharePoint chain
  • The Register
• Apple Urges iOS Update Against Web Attacks
  • Rare direct customer warning from Apple
  • Active web-based exploit prompts urgent patch
  • 9to5Mac
• Feds Warn: Lock Down Intune After Stryker Attack
  • Stryker breach traced to Intune misconfiguration
  • Federal advisory urges immediate hardening
  • The Register

• Simon Willison on the Astral Acquisition
  • Nuanced take on uv/ruff/ty joining OpenAI
  • What it means for open-source Python tooling
  • Simon Willison
• OpenAI's Approach to Coding Agent Safety
  • First-party research on real-world misalignment
  • Chain-of-thought analysis on live deployments
  • OpenAI
• Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic on AI SRE
  • Anthropic uses Claude for site reliability work
  • First-party look at AI-assisted ops in production
  • The Register