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Anthropic previews Claude Duet agent app powered by Opus 5.5

According to The Rundown AI, Anthropic launched a U.S. waitlist preview of Claude Duet, a proactive agent app powered by Opus 5.5 for Pro and Max users. (Source)

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Unitree robot video sparks safety debate: Latest analysis

According to The Rundown AI on X, a nighttime junkyard video featuring a Unitree robot has renewed public scrutiny of safe, responsible deployment and human oversight. (Source)

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OpenAI model flags critical PHP flaw; urgent patches live

According to OpenAI and The Rundown AI, security firm Calif used OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol to uncover critical PHP vulnerabilities also found by Wiz, prompting a two-month coordinated fix with PHP maintainers and Cloudflare, with patches now released and the NSA advising offline mitigation for unpatched systems. (Source)

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Arda debuts at $1.5B as Anthropic advances Claude uses

According to The Rundown AI, ex-OpenAI research chief launched Arda at a $1.5B valuation while Anthropic’s Claude expanded from coding checks to scorpion antivenom research. (Source)

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Electric Plant Co. unveils Bombadil AI for early plant stress

According to The Rundown AI, Electric Plant Co.'s Bombadil model, trained on 7M+ hours from 125+ species, reads plant electrical signals to detect stress days early. (Source)

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Runway CEO says AI could replace actors, sparks industry debate

According to The Rundown AI, Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela said at the VIEW Conference that AI could replace human actors, while Nvidia’s Richard Kerris countered that improvisational nuance like Marlon Brando’s cannot be prompted. (Source)

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OpenAI alum launches Arda, raises $230M at $1.5B valuation

According to CNBC, former OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew unveiled Arda, an AI manufacturing startup valued at $1.5 billion after a $230 million round, saying it aims to help factory engineers like Claude or Cursor assist programmers. (Source)

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Rundown AI: 4 Latest AI Headlines and Business Impact

According to The Rundown AI on X, top stories include Anthropic co-founder saying the singularity is underway, a hacker’s AI agents breaching 100+ firms, new ChatGPT voices via GPT Live 1.1, and Inception’s Mercury 3 outpacing rivals. (Source)

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Red Queen Bio uses AI to design broad spectrum antibodies

According to The Rundown AI, Red Queen Bio is using AI to develop antibody drugs aimed at preempting future pandemics, including novel viral threats. (Source)

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Inception unveils Mercury 3 diffusion LLM with 1,000 tps

According to The Rundown AI citing Inception, Mercury 3 is a 40x larger diffusion language model than Mercury 1 that delivers 1,000+ tokens per second, matches or beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5, and targets low-latency use cases. (Source)

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Anthropic signals possible AI intelligence ceiling at IMF talk

According to The Rundown AI, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told an IMF forum that CEO Dario Amodei has publicly floated setting a ceiling on AI intelligence, warning the window to act is only a few years. (Source)

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SoftBank eyes $18B robot guard deal amid legal and civic tests

According to The Rundown AI, SoftBank is weighing an $18B acquisition in robot security as telepresence, delivery robot biometric lawsuits, and micro-robot sewage fixes advance. (Source)

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Anthropic unveils public pay plan amid junior staff downturn

According to The Rundown AI, Anthropic introduced a public-facing compensation plan while internal data shows junior employees losing ground in the AI job market. (Source)

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Meta unveils top open weight model amid 2026 AI shifts

According to The Rundown AI, Meta released the West’s strongest open weight model as new factory-floor AI use cases, ChatGPT tool workflows, and a Harvard study on AI’s gender divide shape today’s AI landscape. (Source)

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Meta debuts Muse Spark Open; Nvidia ships Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

According to The Rundown AI, Meta released Muse Spark Open, rated 39 on Artificial Analysis’ Intelligence Index, while Nvidia launched Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, claimed 7x smaller and 5x faster than peers its size. (Source)

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Goodfire’s Nick Cammarata: Latest analysis suggests most LLM neurons are legible

According to The Rundown AI citing Nick Cammarata, his 2023 OpenAI project explained about 1.7% of neurons, and he now reports at Goodfire that most neurons in models up to trillions of parameters appear understandable. (Source)

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Krea 3 Launch: Image edits in under 8s for $0.06, Latest Analysis

According to The Rundown AI, Krea launched Krea 3, an image editing model completing edits in under 8 seconds for $0.06 per image, versus Google Nano Banana Pro at 29 seconds and $0.135 and OpenAI GPT Image 2 at 118 seconds and $0.22. (Source)

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Robotics Roundup: Amazon upgrade, heart micro-bots, war drones

According to The Rundown AI on X, today’s robotics highlights include Amazon’s next robot upgrade, Johns Hopkins heart-docking micro-bots, Ukrainian behind-lines robots, and a 13-foot hydraulic humanoid. (Source)

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The Rundown AI highlights 4 latest AI stories and disputes

According to The Rundown AI, today’s top stories include researchers making first contact with a rogue AI, a guide to building a live sales dashboard in Claude, and OpenAI and Apple trading theft accusations. (Source)

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Researchers report Tencent-linked AI agents scraping Amap

According to The Rundown AI citing researcher Ethan Elasky, a Tencent evaluation research team operated AI agents that scraped Alibaba’s Amap, marking what they call the first contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild. (Source)

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