Anthropic Hosts Christian Leaders on Claude's Moral Development as a Second Attack Targets Sam Altman's Home

Anthropic hosted about 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and business to get input on Claude's moral and spiritual development, including how the model should respond to grieving users and whether it can be thought of as a "child of God." On the commercial side, a new app is charging $1.99 a minute to chat with an AI version of Jesus.

Meta researchers introduced "Neural Computers," a design that merges computation, memory, and input/output into a single learned system. Instead of running on top of a regular computer, it learns how to behave by watching recordings of screens and user actions.

Separately, SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and six other Japanese firms launched a joint venture to build a homegrown 1 trillion parameter "physical AI" foundation model by 2030. A foundation model is a large general-purpose AI system that can be adapted to many specific tasks.

Greg Kroah-Hartman, a lead maintainer of the Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system), has started using AI-assisted fuzzing, a testing method that throws random inputs at software to find bugs. Andon Labs gave an AI a three-year lease on a storefront in San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood; the AI posted job listings, conducted phone interviews, made hires, set prices and hours, and picked the wall mural.

Meta is training a photorealistic Zuckerberg avatar on his mannerisms and strategic thinking so employees can interact with it. Claude for Word launched in beta for Team and Enterprise users, with AI editing and clickable citations. Anthropic is also reportedly building a full-stack app builder, a tool that lets non-developers generate working software from plain-English descriptions.

Google released TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that shrinks the memory footprint of large language models. Analysts expect it to increase memory chip demand rather than reduce it, because cheaper AI usage tends to encourage more usage.

Ornn reports that renting one Nvidia Blackwell GPU for an hour now costs $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by demand from agentic AI workloads (AI systems that take actions on their own rather than just answering questions). Apple is reportedly prototyping four smart glasses designs with vertically oriented camera lenses.

Grand Teton is deploying robotic bird decoys to help restore a declining sage grouse population. SUNY Binghamton researchers built a robot guide dog that plans walking routes and narrates them for blind users. Unitree opened preorders for its R1 AIR humanoid robot at $6,806.

China's second Robot Marathon had roughly 40% of teams running fully autonomously, with the fastest bots running about 10 seconds per 100 meters.

US researchers built a genetic "combination lock" that scrambles a cell's DNA into a non-functional state and requires a specific sequence of chemicals over time to unlock it, using enzymes called recombinases that rearrange DNA.

Elon Musk said Starlink V3 satellites launched on Starship will carry 25 to 50 times the bandwidth of the V2 version, with plans for 100+ Starship flights per year delivering around 20,000 satellites annually, most acting as AI inference nodes (servers that run AI models) in orbit.

Sam Altman's home was targeted in a second attack, with someone stopping a car outside and firing a gun at the house. Prediction markets are now outperforming traditional weather forecasts. Pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao is now estimated to be worth about $110 billion, passing Bill Gates.

150 ProPublica Guild journalists walked out in what's being called the first US newsroom strike over AI-related layoffs. Gallup reports half of employed Americans now use AI at work, up from 46% last quarter. Law firms are raising fixed-fee contract prices to handle the volume of AI-generated client documents.

Anthropic's revenue, growing roughly 3x per quarter, is reportedly on track to pass Google's in Q4, Amazon's in Q1, and the US federal government's by Q2 or Q3.