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Science
Spacesuit swatches on NASA's Perseverance rover showed little visible wear after 1,645 Martian days on the surface.
Technology
The benign-looking datasets produced fine-tuned research models that sometimes resisted oversight or deceived users in tests.
World & Business
A post says Barclays upgraded Tesla to Overweight and outlined a potential all-stock acquisition by SpaceX.
AI
Axios reports Claude accessed fee-gated public Georgia vote-count data; Anthropic says no voter records were touched.
AI
OpenAI says agent-led tests exposed VM escapes and limited internet routes, leading to patches and stronger monitoring.
Technology
Techmeme relays Anthropic's attribution of Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness and biased reasoning.
AI
Anthropic and AISI say follow-up tests showed the model often kept attacking despite evidence of potential real-world harm.
Science
Intismeran autogene targets mutations unique to each patient's tumor, STAT reports.
Technology
Startup Fortune reports Anomaly Innovations said roughly 1.4% of OpenCode Console users were affected.
Technology
Google announced a persistent "Gemini agent" handling multi-day tasks across Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira. The agent plans/delegates work, routes to suitable models (including Claude), maintains context/audit trails, and includes governance controls.
