1. Sora's architect left OpenAI the same week it shipped a model for drug companies Bill Peebles announced his departure from OpenAI on Friday. He had spent two years building Sora, the video generation product OpenAI pulled from the market last month.

2. DRAM will miss 40% of demand through 2027, and Cerebras just filed IPO with $10B in OpenAI orders Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are expanding DRAM production. Even so, Nikkei Asia reports the three largest memory makers will meet only 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027.

3. 'Tokenmaxxing' shipped more code. Developers are paying to rewrite it. "Tokenmaxxing" has become industry shorthand for a workflow that treats more tokens as more output: run more prompts, let agents iterate longer, generate more drafts, ship faster.

In Brief

• Musk v. Altman trial to decide whether OpenAI abandoned its mission A jury will weigh whether OpenAI's for-profit pivot breached its founding charter to ensure AGI benefits humanity. The outcome could reshape governance obligations for other AI labs that restructured away from nonprofit origins.

• UK launches £675 million sovereign AI fund to back domestic startups The UK government committed the fund to reduce reliance on US and Chinese AI infrastructure. Capital will flow to homegrown model developers and compute providers rather than foreign vendors.

• Tesla rolls out driverless robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston Tesla confirmed the expansion via a post showing vehicles operating without human monitors in the front seat. The two Texas cities join the initial Austin deployment as Tesla pushes its supervised-to-unsupervised autonomy transition.

• Anthropic leases London office large enough to quadruple its UK headcount The new lease supports growth from 200 to roughly 800 staff as US friction with Washington continues. London becomes Anthropic's largest non-US hub, positioning the company to hedge against Pentagon supply-chain designations.

• Anthropic backs Schematik, a 'Cursor for hardware' vibe-coding tool Schematik lets users generate designs for physical devices through natural language. Anthropic wants in as coding-agent playbooks expand from software into PCB layout, firmware, and mechanical assemblies.

• App Store sees new-launch surge in 2026, Appfigures credits AI tooling Appfigures data shows app submissions climbing sharply this year after a multi-year plateau. Solo builders shipping with AI code assistants appear to be the main driver of the revival.

• Researchers break EU age-verification app in two minutes Security researchers bypassed the newly deployed EU age-verification app in roughly 120 seconds. The flaw arrives as the bloc mandates the tool for adult-content and social platforms across member states.

• HY-World 2.0 turns text, images, and video into navigable 3D scenes The multi-modal world model outputs 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes from text prompts, single images, multi-view images, or video. A four-stage pipeline starts with panorama generation before lifting to navigable geometry.

• Sabi builds a beanie that converts brain signals into text The California startup is developing a non-invasive thought-to-text wearable aimed at everyday use rather than clinical patients. The headwear targets hands-free dictation as the first commercial application.

• Poetry Camera ships a point-and-shoot that prints AI-written verse The device photographs a scene and prints a generated poem on receipt paper, with no screen or editing. Reviewers found the output consistently mediocre but the form factor novel.

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