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JPMorgan deploys $5 billion of its own balance sheet into defense tech, hardware and supply chains, and it is moving faster on direct investments than most banks would dare, with robot factories and hypersonic missiles among its first bets.

Why it matters A major bank putting its own capital into national security companies signals that defense tech is now treated as a mainstream investment category.

Four Gemini agents beat Minecraft without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run. With no predefined roles, they wrote 2,783 programs and exchanged 229 chat messages, while dying 605 times along the way.

Why it matters Self-organizing groups of agents that share tips and correct each other's mistakes point toward AI systems that can coordinate on long, open-ended tasks.

Musk promises SpaceX shares to every child in America next year, though he did not say how the giveaway would work. The pledge came after Anthropic said it would set aside a portion of its shares for the public benefit.

Why it matters The pledge has no stated mechanism yet, so how a share would reach each child, and what it would be worth, remains unanswered.

AI's giant cash call is matched by its knack for undercutting the revenue streams it touches, a technology that arrives with a built-in self-disrupt button, and The Register is skeptical.

Uber beats black cab suit as a judge threw out a £250 million ($333 million) claim on behalf of thousands of London drivers, ruling it was filed too late.(paywalled)

Anthropic commits 5% of shares to a new public benefit fund that can make donations addressing the public good, including softening AI's impact on jobs, as the company lays the ground for a stock market listing.

Why it matters Setting aside equity before an IPO ties a share of the company's future value to public purposes, and it is already prompting rival pledges.

Nudify apps slip past controls as test accounts posing as 13-year-olds downloaded 135 apps with features for generating nonconsensual nude imagery, despite the parental controls of Apple and Google, the Tech Transparency Project found, in its new report.

Apple eyes a bigger HomeView with a 9-inch screen that swivels a full 360 degrees on a robotic arm, and a launch could come in 2027 or 2028, with names like HomeView Max floated so far.

Arm claims a rack advantage as its AGI CPU delivers nearly twice the modeled rack performance of AMD's EPYC 9755 across seven agentic AI workloads, using a method developed with Fujitsu, Meta and OpenAI.

Stranded Claude agents started playing when researchers left copies of Claude Opus 4.7 alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours with no instructions, and what they did looked a lot like play.(paywalled)

Why it matters What agents do when given no task offers a glimpse of their default behavior, which matters as they are trusted with more autonomy.