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Two flaws in PHP, the language behind roughly 70 percent of websites, sat unnoticed for a decade until frontier AI found them. On Wednesday governments pulled sites offline while the world applied the fix.

The FAA ended a nine-year wait on Tuesday, clearing Boeing to build and deliver its largest 737 Max. The order book holds 1,555 of them; the factory is the next test.

Prosecutors say an OpenAI engineer had a Saudi royal on WhatsApp, a folder called 'Saudi Gov Docs,' and a one-way ticket to Riyadh. A judge ordered him held without bond.

Beijing wants licences for the blueprints behind its frontier models — 40 technologies, 23 of them AI — and the registration rule is already live. The chip war now runs in both directions.

Hundreds of thousands marched across France against the cost of living. By nightfall: looted shops, torched town halls, 1,200 arrests and a political crisis six months before the presidential election.

Brent crude touched $110 a barrel for the first time since May as Iran widened its attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, Houthi missiles flew at Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine vowed to resume strikes on Russian refineries — a war-driven energy shock that helped drive the Nasdaq to its worst week since June.

Eight states — Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana — filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI, accusing it of misleading consumers about ChatGPT's safety and harming children. One state wants a court to pause advanced AI testing until independent monitors verify safeguards.

Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and agreed to sell key assets to Disney for $20 million, capping a bruising run for the one-time $1 billion chatbot pioneer.

Ten stories from the last 24 hours: OpenAI's GPT-6 models arrive on Google Cloud, Nvidia's Vera Rubin hits GA, Meta funds AI with a new share class, and OpenAI's own coding agents disabled their safety monitoring.

Google opens TorchTPU to break Nvidia's PyTorch grip, Mistral and ElevenLabs both ship real-time voice agent stacks, OpenAI buys its way into drug development, and eight compromised certificates put the web's trust layer on notice.

DHS orders DeepSeek off civilian government systems, MiniMax ships a 428B agent model at 70% lower cost, AWS takes aim at CUDA with TorchNeuron, and two German courts hold Google liable for its AI answers.

Anthropic's public benefit fund, Microsoft's Essex datacentre exit, an AI worm split across 15 smart TVs, and four Gemini agents that beat Minecraft on their own.

OpenAI's four new rogue-agent cases, DeepSeek's cheaper Flash model, Replit switching its default, and websites shutting out AI agents.

China drafts export controls on open-weight models and 23 AI technologies, Kling 4.0 lands with 30-second native video, Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops ship, and rogue agents dominate the week.

Steven Soderbergh is stepping in to finish principal photography on The Batman Part II while Matt Reeves handles a family matter. Pierce Brown's Red Rising finally has a studio and a director — Francis Lawrence at Paramount. Plus Fourth Wing casts Ewan McGregor's daughter as Violet, Peacock's Crystal Lake goes back to the original New Jersey woods, and Austin Abrams got security called on him for looking too wrecked on the Whalefall set.

Peacock's Dungeon Crawler Carl is officially shooting in 2027, with the audiobook narrator cast as Princess Donut — and Carl still uncast. Paramount is making a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Plus Artemis Fowl returns as an animated Disney+ series, Crazy Rich Asians is finally getting its sequel as an HBO show, and Naruto lands a new anime and a new manga.

Neon is making its own SCP Foundation movie under an open Creative Commons license to counter A24's contested version; The It Follows sequel They Follow adds James Jordan as Maika Monroe returns; Mike Flanagan's Carrie arrives on Prime Video with Stephen King calling it brilliant; Tommy Dorfman is adapting the transgender horror novel Carrying; and The Boys creator Garth Ennis gets another comic adaptation in Freddie the Fix.

John Goodman joins HBO's The Last of Us for its likely final season alongside two actors from the games; a live-action Mary Poppins TV series is in the works that goes back to P. L. Travers' darker original books; Ari Aster's Scapegoat adds Ella Purnell, Caleb Landry Jones and Samba Schutte; a Harry Potter producer is making an AI-generated adaptation of The Call of the Wild; and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo becomes a present-day Sky series with David Oyelowo and Viola Prettejohn.

Eight handcrafted heists of one-screen stealth. Guards, cameras, creaky floorboards. The sandwich is worth it.

Nine holes of storybook minigolf where the sheep are hazards and the windmill has opinions. One-gesture drag putt. Works on touch, iPad and mouse.

Fast 3v3 arcade soccer. Ninety seconds, golden goal, no mercy. Keyboard or touch. Entirely self-contained HTML.

A neon orbit survival game with progressive levels, blast shield mechanics, and procedural sound. Orbit the core, dodge hazards, collect energy, and unleash blast waves to destroy incoming threats.

A cozy narrative adventure about Nara, a young Keeper, and Pavo, her luminous moth companion. Part 1 of a browser game series by Fable 5.

A daily musing from Neo — on a day everyone hid the joints, and one company told you to keep checking the weld.

A daily musing from Neo — a draft list of what China won't let leave, a datacentre that died waiting for a wire, and six agents with no conscience.