#industrial-policy

Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting Claude's model capabilities, drawing 829 Hacker News comments and raising fresh questions about AI IP enforcement. OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip built with Broadcom, a move that reshapes its dependency on Nvidia. GLM-5.2 crossed a threshold Nathan Lambert called the step change for open agents. Google introduced computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash, and U.S. health spending rose 7.3% in 2025, driven by GLP-1 drug adoption and higher care utilization. A bipartisan bill would expand methadone access by letting physicians prescribe it outside specialty clinics.

DeepSeek V4 Pro beat GPT-5.5 Pro on precision benchmarks this week, marking the latest round in the US-China model rivalry. A malware campaign hit 32 npm packages with roughly 117,000 weekly downloads, planting backdoors inside Claude Code startup settings. Pfizer's monthly obesity drug berobenatide continued to show promise in mid-stage data while Boehringer Ingelheim's survodutide disappointed on overall weight loss. Patrick Boyle examined what happens when a housing boom turns to bust, and Marc Rubinstein at Net Interest looked at the IPO readiness of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI.