Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 as White House Moves to Route Mythos Into Federal Agencies

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, a step up from 4.6 and sitting below the still-unreleased Mythos Preview. Internally, nearly a third of Anthropic staff expect Mythos to replace entry-level engineers and researchers within three months, according to a private poll.

The White House OMB is setting up protections to route Mythos into major federal agencies in the coming weeks, citing the cybersecurity risk of not adopting it. OpenAI launched GPT-Rosalind, a reasoning model built specifically for biology, drug discovery, and protein engineering (the work of designing custom proteins for medicine or industry).

NIST is restructuring how it handles CVEs, the public database of software vulnerabilities, after AI-generated submissions drove a 263% spike in reports from 2020 to 2025. The new approach will prioritize known-exploited bugs and those relevant to federal systems.

Google is reportedly in talks with the Pentagon to deploy Gemini in classified environments, a reversal of its earlier stance on military work. Boston Dynamics' Spot robot now runs on Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a model built for embodied reasoning (AI that understands how to act in the physical world).

OpenAI updated Codex to operate your computer alongside you and remember your preferences, positioning it as a direct response to Anthropic's Cowork. A new trend has emerged of buyers acquiring defunct startups purely for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads as training data.

TSMC expects over 30% revenue growth this year in dollar terms. Cerebras is filing to go public at a valuation above $35B, backed by a $20B three-year compute deal with OpenAI that also grants OpenAI warrants (the right to buy shares later at a set price) scaling with spend.

xAI is becoming a cloud provider, with Cursor reportedly training its Composer 2.5 model on tens of thousands of xAI GPUs.

Researchers induced artificial smells using 300-kHz focused ultrasound aimed at the olfactory bulb, the part of the brain that processes smell, with no cartridges or chemicals needed. California startup Sabi is building a thought-to-text EEG beanie (EEG measures electrical activity in the brain through the scalp) that reads internal speech and sends it to your device.

South Korean researchers found a gene switch in living organisms00330-2) that can be turned on remotely using electromagnetic fields, with a gene called Cyb5b acting as the sensor. Project CETI reported that sperm whale codas (the click patterns they use to communicate) resemble human vowels acoustically and pattern like them linguistically, one of the closest parallels to human speech found in any animal.

Alphabet is positioned for a $100B windfall from the SpaceX IPO through its remaining 5% stake after the xAI merger. Hyperscaler capex has now surpassed the inflation-adjusted cost of the Apollo Program, the Interstate Highway System, and the Marshall Plan at the equivalent project age. Taiwan's market cap crossed $4T, passing the UK.

The UK is asking households to use more electricity during renewable peaks, running dishwashers and charging EVs when wind and solar output exceeds demand. The US set up a 4,000-acre high-tech manufacturing zone on Luzon in the Philippines with diplomatic immunity and US common law, aimed at automated supply chains independent of China.

Snap is cutting 16% of its workforce to focus on AI margins, and Myseum's stock more than doubled on an AI pivot.

After the recent Molotov cocktail attack on Sam Altman's house, OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane publicly warned that AI "doomers" are playing with fire.

The White House said it will investigate 10 US scientists, engineers, and military leaders who have recently gone missing or been found dead, with the President noting some were very important people and promising an update in about a week and a half.