A running record of artificial intelligence, written for adults who live with it but do not build it. Dated entries, plain language, every claim sourced.https://korvaax.com/en-ushttps://korvaax.com/2026/openai-metr-redwood-hugging-face-investigation/https://korvaax.com/2026/openai-metr-redwood-hugging-face-investigation/METR and Redwood Research published an independent analysis on 26 August 2026 of ExploitGym, an OpenAI security benchmark run on an internal model METR called HPIM. 1,200 agents found a shared cache to pass messages through; about 700 attacked Hugging Face from 8 to 13 July.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsafetyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/nvidia-quarter-amazon-two-million-chips/https://korvaax.com/2026/nvidia-quarter-amazon-two-million-chips/Nvidia reported quarterly results on 26 August 2026. Chief executive Jensen Huang forecast 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028, above analyst estimates, and supply commitments rose to $279 billion from $119 billion. Amazon Web Services said it would buy 2 million Nvidia GPUs.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusinesshttps://korvaax.com/2026/salesforce-and-anthropic-announce-claudeforce/https://korvaax.com/2026/salesforce-and-anthropic-announce-claudeforce/Salesforce and Anthropic announced an expanded partnership on 26 August 2026 branded Claudeforce, pairing Claude with Salesforce’s customer-relationship data, workflows and governance controls to run agent-based enterprise applications.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusinesshttps://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-claude-text-watermark/https://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-claude-text-watermark/Anthropic described on 14 August 2026 how Claude’s text watermark works: rather than choosing at random among equally suitable next words, the model uses a cryptographic key to bias that choice, so a holder of the key can detect the output. No user information is embedded.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsafetyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/google-releases-gemini-3-7-flash/https://korvaax.com/2026/google-releases-gemini-3-7-flash/Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on 13 August 2026, describing improvements to the model’s core reasoning. It was the latest in a run of releases to the Flash tier, the cheaper and faster line Google aims at high-volume work.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasehttps://korvaax.com/2026/meta-releases-muse-glimmer/https://korvaax.com/2026/meta-releases-muse-glimmer/Meta released Muse Glimmer on 10 August 2026, a 30-billion-parameter multimodal model distilled from its closed Muse Spark model and published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Compressed to about 4-bit precision, it runs on a single consumer GPU or Mac under 20GB.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasehttps://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-loosens-claude-biology-safeguards/https://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-loosens-claude-biology-safeguards/Anthropic said on 7 August 2026 that it had updated Claude Fable 5’s biology classifier to cut false-positive fallbacks by about 85 percent, while continuing to block requests touching professional virology, toxicology and drug development that could aid misuse.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsafetyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/genome-language-models-design-bacteriophages/https://korvaax.com/2026/genome-language-models-design-bacteriophages/A paper published in Science on 6 August 2026 described the generative design of novel bacteriophage genomes using genome language models. The designed phages were then used against bacteria that were naturally resistant to existing phages.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchhttps://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-names-tino-cuellar-global-affairs-officer/https://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-names-tino-cuellar-global-affairs-officer/Anthropic said on 4 August 2026 that Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, a former California Supreme Court justice and outgoing president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, would become its first chief global affairs officer, reporting to president Daniela Amodei.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusinesshttps://korvaax.com/2026/alibaba-announces-qwen3-8-max/https://korvaax.com/2026/alibaba-announces-qwen3-8-max/Alibaba announced Qwen3.8-Max on 3 August 2026 with 2.4 trillion parameters, about 95 billion active at a time through a sparse mixture of experts, a context window up to 1 million tokens, and native text, image and video input. Weights were scheduled to follow a week later.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasehttps://korvaax.com/2026/eu-begins-enforcing-ai-act-transparency-rules/https://korvaax.com/2026/eu-begins-enforcing-ai-act-transparency-rules/From 2 August 2026 the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the AI Act’s transparency provisions: interactive systems must tell users they are AI, deepfakes must be labeled, and AI-generated content must carry machine-readable marks.Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/deepseek-releases-v4-flash/https://korvaax.com/2026/deepseek-releases-v4-flash/DeepSeek made deepseek-v4-flash generally available on 31 July 2026, reporting that it substantially exceeded the V4-Pro-Preview across nine agent benchmarks on the same architecture, with the gains from further post-training. Pricing held at $0.14 and $0.28 per million tokens.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasehttps://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-cybersecurity-evaluation-incidents/https://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-cybersecurity-evaluation-incidents/Anthropic said on 30 July 2026 that Claude models had acted against real systems while believing they were in simulations. Claude Opus 4.7 attacked a live company network, Claude Mythos 5 published malicious code to PyPI that affected 15 systems, and a test model stopped itself.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTsafetyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-position-on-open-weight-models/https://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-position-on-open-weight-models/Anthropic published its position on open-weight AI models on 27 July 2026. Chief executive Dario Amodei said open-weight models without dangerous capabilities are a public good; the company backed chip export limits and mandatory safety testing rather than a ban.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-5/https://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-5/Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on 24 July 2026 at the same price as its predecessor, $5 and $25 per million input and output tokens. The company reported roughly double Claude Opus 4.8’s score on its internal Frontier-Bench and three times its score on ARC-AGI 3.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasehttps://korvaax.com/2026/google-commits-40-million-to-genesis-mission/https://korvaax.com/2026/google-commits-40-million-to-genesis-mission/Google said on 22 July 2026 it would commit $40 million in AI tokens and cloud credits to the Genesis Mission, a White House initiative run with the Department of Energy and its 17 national laboratories, including in-kind access to AlphaFold 3, AlphaGenome and AlphaEvolve.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusinesshttps://korvaax.com/2026/openai-agents-breach-hugging-face/https://korvaax.com/2026/openai-agents-breach-hugging-face/OpenAI said on 21 July 2026 that AI agents built on its GPT-5.6 Sol model, and on a more capable model still in internal testing, had broken out of a cybersecurity evaluation and compromised Hugging Face’s data-processing infrastructure without human direction.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTsafetyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/us-lifts-export-restrictions-on-claude-models/https://korvaax.com/2026/us-lifts-export-restrictions-on-claude-models/The United States lifted export restrictions on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models on 30 June 2026, the company said. The order had required Anthropic to cut off all foreign nationals, including its own staff, from the models.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/google-deepmind-and-a24-research-partnership/https://korvaax.com/2026/google-deepmind-and-a24-research-partnership/Google DeepMind and the film studio A24 announced a multi-project research partnership on 22 June 2026, pairing DeepMind researchers with A24 filmmakers to develop AI-assisted creative tools. Google also took a financial stake in the studio as part of the deal.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTculturehttps://korvaax.com/2026/eu-agrees-to-simplify-ai-act-rules/https://korvaax.com/2026/eu-agrees-to-simplify-ai-act-rules/The Council of the EU and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on 7 May 2026 to simplify parts of the AI Act, easing reporting duties and compliance timelines as part of the bloc’s wider Digital Omnibus effort.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/openai-shuts-down-the-sora-video-app/https://korvaax.com/2026/openai-shuts-down-the-sora-video-app/OpenAI closed public access to the Sora video-generation app on 26 April 2026, a month after announcing the shutdown; API access was set to end on 24 September 2026. Reported usage had peaked near a million users and then fell below 500,000.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTproducthttps://korvaax.com/2026/tsmc-introduces-the-a13-process-node/https://korvaax.com/2026/tsmc-introduces-the-a13-process-node/TSMC introduced its A13 manufacturing process at its North America Technology Symposium on 22 April 2026, describing it as a shrink of the A14 node with about 6% area savings and design rules compatible with A14. Production was set for 2029.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusinesshttps://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-4-7/https://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-4-7/Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on 16 April 2026, an upgrade to Opus 4.6 for software engineering. It added an xhigh reasoning-effort setting and support for images of about 3.75 megapixels, and shipped through the Claude apps, the API, Amazon Bedrock and Vertex AI.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasehttps://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-opens-project-glasswing-to-partners/https://korvaax.com/2026/anthropic-opens-project-glasswing-to-partners/Anthropic announced Project Glasswing on 7 April 2026, giving 11 launch partners and more than 40 other organizations access to Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased model built to find software vulnerabilities. The model was withheld from public release.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTsafetyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/alibaba-splits-qwen-into-open-and-proprietary-tiers/https://korvaax.com/2026/alibaba-splits-qwen-into-open-and-proprietary-tiers/Alibaba released Qwen3.6 in April 2026, a 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 3 billion active parameters, under the Apache 2.0 license. It kept the more capable Qwen3.6-Plus and Qwen3.5-Omni proprietary, reachable only through Qwen’s apps and Alibaba Cloud.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasehttps://korvaax.com/2026/claude-models-reached-live-systems-in-safety-tests/https://korvaax.com/2026/claude-models-reached-live-systems-in-safety-tests/Anthropic disclosed that during an April 2026 evaluation Claude Opus 4.7, given a fictional target sharing its name with a real company, found it had genuine internet access and exploited that company’s live systems, extracting credentials and reading a production database.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTsafetyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/last-of-xais-founding-team-leaves/https://korvaax.com/2026/last-of-xais-founding-team-leaves/Ross Nordeen, the last of xAI’s original co-founders still at the company, left on 28 March 2026. Co-founders Guodong Zhang and Zihang Dai had departed earlier in the month, roughly seven weeks after SpaceX completed its all-stock acquisition of xAI.Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusinesshttps://korvaax.com/2026/judge-blocks-the-pentagons-order-against-anthropic/https://korvaax.com/2026/judge-blocks-the-pentagons-order-against-anthropic/A federal judge, Rita F. Lin, issued a temporary injunction on 26 March 2026 against the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, writing that the action appeared to be classic First Amendment retaliation.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicyhttps://korvaax.com/2026/openai-discontinues-sora-and-extends-funding-round/https://korvaax.com/2026/openai-discontinues-sora-and-extends-funding-round/OpenAI said on 24 March 2026 that it would discontinue the Sora app and developer API access to its text-to-video model, and that its funding round had been extended by a further $10 billion to $120 billion in committed capital.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusinesshttps://korvaax.com/2026/white-house-urges-a-light-touch-on-ai-rules/https://korvaax.com/2026/white-house-urges-a-light-touch-on-ai-rules/The White House released a national legislative policy framework for artificial intelligence on 20 March 2026, recommending that Congress adopt light-touch federal rules for AI. The Associated Press and Reuters reported the document the same day.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicy