#surveillance

Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753-billion-parameter open-weights LLM under MIT license, which Simon Willison called the most powerful text-only open-weights model available. Separately, a White House report on the Fable 5 export control jailbreak drew pushback from cybersecurity expert Kate Moussouris, who said the restriction harms US cyber defense. OpenAI and Molecule.one published results from a near-autonomous AI chemist using GPT-5.4 that improved a challenging medicinal chemistry reaction. In pharma, nitazene overdose deaths confirmed by the CDC rose from 27 in 2020 to 409 in 2024, while the FTC and four state AGs sued WPATH over its gender-affirming care standards. Tyler Cowen flagged new research showing AI-native startups are organized differently from conventional venture-backed firms, drawing on Y Combinator data from 2020 to 2024.

An OpenAI reasoning model disproved an 80-year-old Erdős conjecture in discrete geometry for under $1,000 in compute, a result mathematicians are calling one of the most significant AI contributions to pure math to date. Eli Lilly's retatrutide, a triple-receptor obesity drug, produced bariatric-surgery-level weight loss in a Phase 3 trial, though dropout rates from side effects were notable. Google shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash to general availability at Google I/O and announced a $100 AI Ultra subscription tier. The acting head of NIH's infectious disease institute stepped down as senators pressed NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya on leadership gaps and a proposed 2027 budget cut. Kevin Warsh was confirmed and sworn in as the new Federal Reserve chair this week.