Oxford gives OpenAI 125,000 scanned 19th- and 20th-century PhD theses from the Bodleian Library to train AI models, despite staff concerns over reputational risk and AI energy use; the out-of-copyright files are due online within months.
Microsoft launches Frontier Accelerate for Marketplace, a unified partner program that helps eligible B2B solution providers build, publish, monetize and scale offerings, with its Premium tier providing $30,000 in Azure credits plus technical and go-to-market support.
Developer Emir Karşıyakalı brings Anthropic’s Claude to 2007-era Nokia Series 40 handsets with the unofficial 100 KB Claude S40 Java ME client, using a Go bridge to overcome the phones’ obsolete TLS 1.0 connection limits.
derv82 releases wifit3, a cross-platform USB Wi-Fi auditing tool that bypasses native Linux, Windows and macOS Wi-Fi stacks to capture WPA/WPA2 handshakes and PMKIDs, export .pcap and .hc22000 files, and run WPA3 downgrade, WPS recovery and WEP attacks through directly controlled supported adapters.
Anthropic opens a plugin submission portal for paid Claude users, allowing developers to publish approved MCP connectors and GitHub-hosted bundles to Claude’s directory while tracking reviews, installs, searches, and listing views.
Microsoft unveils a redesigned Copilot super app that unifies AI chat, coding and autonomous agents, rebranding Scout as Autopilot—a cloud-based assistant that can monitor Teams channels and handle recurring work—with usage-based billing and a private preview later this month.
Bill Gates warns that malicious actors using advanced AI could cause a billion deaths or even wipe out humanity, telling NBC’s Kristen Welker that no prior weapon has combined such destructive potential with such broad accessibility.
Anthropic warns that in its extreme 2030 AI scenario, 8.3% of knowledge workers are unemployed even as GDP climbs 32.4%, while economist Julius Probst says a more limited disruption is likelier because physical jobs remain hard to automate.
Qualcomm says its Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 can run 30-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts AI models directly on phones by loading needed experts from flash storage instead of requiring roughly 32GB of RAM.
Qualcomm launches the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, a mobile chip designed to run 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI models directly on phones, targeting next year’s Android flagships alongside Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 wearables hardware.