1. He knew the technology might not be there yet. He fed Claude his MRI anyway. Antoine had a Grade III partial-thickness tear at the apical insertion of his subscapularis tendon. He didn't know what that meant.

2. Suno wants to be a streaming destination, so it is recruiting the human artists its critics say it replaces Suno built its name on letting anyone generate a song from a text prompt. Now it wants the people who make music the old way.

3. The fight over AI's frontier is no longer two companies racing for the best model For three years the contest read as a duopoly: Anthropic against OpenAI, one benchmark at a time. TechCrunch now argues that frame has expired.

In Brief

• Trump administration restores Anthropic's Mythos to a select group of US organizations The White House permitted Anthropic to grant access to its most advanced model after two weeks of negotiations and an executive lobbying push in Washington. Only approved US companies and government agencies qualify. Fable 5, the public-facing Mythos-class model, remains offline.

• Wall Street bets on Micron as the next Nvidia trade Investors hunting for public companies that could replicate Nvidia's run have moved into memory maker Micron, citing AI demand for high-bandwidth memory. The thesis positions Micron's chips as a supply bottleneck for AI accelerators.

• China's Z.ai releases open-weight GLM-5.2, matching Mythos on some cybersecurity tasks Researchers say Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 equals Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios, though it trails Anthropic and OpenAI on general tasks. The open-weight release narrows the capability gap between Chinese and US frontier models in a specific domain.

• Prosecutors entered ChatGPT logs as evidence in the Palisades arson trial Prosecutors charging Jonathan Rinderknecht over the deadly January 2025 LA wildfire cited his ChatGPT logs alongside iPhone location data, security footage, and witness testimony. The case ended in a mistrial.

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