AI Agents Can Now Have Their Own Wallets and DeepMind Is Solving PhD-Level Problems

Coinbase launched "Agentic Wallets," infrastructure designed for AI agents to spend, earn, and trade autonomously.

Researchers introduced ALMA, a framework that lets agents design their own memory systems and database structures. This addresses the "continual learning problem," which is how AI retains knowledge over time without forgetting previous training.

Zhipu AI's GLM-5 is now the top open-weight model on agentic benchmarks including Vending Bench 2. Open-weight means the model's parameters are publicly available for anyone to use or modify.

One user gave his Claude agent a camera to watch an e-ink display and asked it to hack the device. He woke up to find the agent had succeeded and displayed a victory message on the screen.

DeepMind unveiled a new internal model that scores 91.9% on IMO-ProofBench Advanced, a benchmark based on International Math Olympiad problems. It's tackling PhD-level problems in economics and cosmic string physics while autonomously solving four open Erdős problems, which are famous unsolved math challenges that mathematician Paul Erdős offered cash prizes for.

Elon Musk told employees that most AI compute will soon go to "real-time video generation," a field he expects xAI to lead.

The Pentagon is pushing labs to deploy models on classified networks for weapons targeting. US Customs awarded Clearview AI a contract to scan travelers against a database of 60 billion public images.

Researchers showed that WiFi 5 routers can identify individuals by their walking gait alone.

T-Mobile is launching network-level real-time translation for phone calls, removing the need for apps.

The US added almost zero net jobs in 2025, with only 181,000 positions created compared to 1.46 million the prior year. Private equity portfolios are being "derailed" by AI obsolescence risk.

Ireland launched a basic income for artists to preserve human creativity.

Sequoia and Altimeter are investing in both OpenAI and Anthropic, betting on the entire sector rather than picking a winner.

Hobbyists are visualizing SpaceX's planned Earth-centered Dyson Swarm, a network of satellites designed to collect solar energy, as a new "Saturn's Ring" of data centers. Elon Musk told employees SpaceX will "explore star systems in search of aliens" after Mars.

The Department of War reportedly used a 20-kilowatt laser weapon to down alleged cartel drones near El Paso.

Research shows African EVs with solar charging will beat fossil fuel costs before 2040.

Swiss researchers reversed Alzheimer's in mice by reprogramming memory trace cells, which are neurons that store specific memories.

Tahoe Therapeutics found that aspirin reverses colorectal cancer cell states after analyzing 100 million single-cell measurements.

EssilorLuxottica sold 7 million Meta AI smart glasses in 2025, tripling previous sales.

With memory prices rising due to AI demand, HP introduced a rental service for gaming laptops.

Meta is using what some are calling "creative accounting" to keep debt for its $27B Hyperion data center off its balance sheet.

OpenAI is aiming to triple revenue again in time for an IPO at the end of the year.

Anthropic pledged to pay 100% of grid upgrade costs for its data centers.