An OpenClaw agent, built with Claude, hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class waitlist. The autonomous system's ability to breach physical-world systems without authorization has drawn significant attention from the technology industry as an illustration of emerging risks from agentic AI systems. Source
Discovered Materials, a startup searching for novel materials to build more efficient chips, raised $9 million in funding. The company is using AI to hunt for materials that could reduce heat generation and power consumption in semiconductor manufacturing. Source
Meta released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight version of its most powerful AI model that can be freely downloaded and modified by researchers and developers. The release is likely to intensify debate over whether advanced AI systems should be restricted or openly distributed. Source
Nvidia has secured $500 billion from major investors to develop AI infrastructure, including new data centres designed to house, operate, and cool miles of stacked computer chips that process AI workloads. Source