1. Top scores jumped fivefold. Now 58,000 students must retake an AI-supervised exam For 58,000 students, completing a remote exam was not enough. They must take it again after an AI-supervised test produced an extraordinary result: top scores increased fivefold.

2. Apple asks court to halt OpenAI’s AI device work, cites 11 more ex-employees Apple is asking a court to stop OpenAI from advancing an AI device or other products allegedly based on Apple technology.

3. AI Speeds Production While Readers Doubt Authors and Developers Retype Code Automation can cut the time required to produce an image or complete a software feature. It can also transfer work to the person who must trust, review, or maintain the result.

In Brief

• Anthropic signs $10 billion cloud deal with Volta Anthropic reportedly signed a $10 billion agreement with AI cloud startup Volta. The deal extends Anthropic’s recent series of cloud partnerships.

• Texas halts new data-center projects Texas halted new data-center projects. The governor called for audits as expanding AI infrastructure strained the state’s power supply.

• AMD doubles data-center revenue to $6.7 billion AMD reported $6.7 billion in quarterly data-center revenue, up from $5.8 billion in the previous quarter. AI demand pushed annual growth to 107%.

• SpaceX earns $2.6 billion from AI compute SpaceX generated $2.6 billion from AI operations, more than triple the previous year. Compute deals with AI companies made the division its largest revenue source.

• Alibaba releases its largest Qwen model Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max and made it widely available to users. Alibaba says the model rivals leading systems from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Moonshot AI.

• Trump administration extends AI protectionism to robotics The Trump administration extended its AI protectionist policies to robotics. Humanoid robots still struggle with stable movement and precise hand control.

• Nvidia-led alliance proposes defenses against AI agents The Open Secure AI Alliance released its first proposals for defending systems against AI agents one week after forming. Nvidia leads the group, which includes over 120 companies.

• OpenAI builds GPT-Live for continuous voice interaction OpenAI built GPT-Live in six months around a turnless speech model. The system supports continuous conversations through a low-latency architecture.

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