Researchers showed that encrypted AI reasoning blocks can leak API keys and passwords across sessions. Google moved its A2A agent protocol under the same open governance as Anthropic's MCP. And Z.ai released GLM-5.3, a 743-billion-parameter open-weight coding model.
A London AI lab's small agent outperformed frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI at reproducing scientific papers. Starcloud raised $250 million to build data centres in orbit. And a breach at France's tax authority exposed data belonging to 678,000 people.
The Model Context Protocol's stateless core has landed in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Microsoft patched a critical, unauthenticated Windows DNS Server flaw that is wormable. And Azure, AWS and Google Cloud all posted accelerating growth, with AWS and Google Cloud launching a joint multicloud collaboration.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 at half the cost of Claude Fable 5, with Math Olympiad-level reasoning. Security researchers at Anthropic and EPFL discovered self-propagating payloads can spread between AI agents. And Meta shipped Llama 4 with a 10-million-token context window and native multimodality.
A critical Screen Sharing flaw is letting attackers gain root access on internet-exposed Macs and plant cryptocurrency miners. xAI ships Grok 4.6, matching GPT-5.6 Sol on independent benchmarks. And UBS estimates that OpenAI and Anthropic alone could drive 48% of Google Cloud's revenue next year.
An unpatched GeoServer SQL injection flaw is already being probed for remote code execution, hours after disclosure. DeepSeek ships V4 Pro, its flagship model with a 1 million token context window. And Amazon raises its 2026 AI infrastructure spending to around $220 billion, saying capacity will stay tight through 2027.
