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Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit suggest the Pentagon approached OpenAI seeking an AI system far less inclined to refuse requests. OpenAI pushed back on the characterization, and a Pentagon lawyer later walked back an earlier confirmation, leaving the nature of any agreement genuinely murky and the questions it raises very much open.
On a quieter but remarkable note, an AI system called Claude Fable five point one has apparently cracked a cipher that had stumped researchers for three hundred seventy years, the so-called Cyphral Distich. It's a striking demonstration of what these models can do when pointed at problems that defeated generations of human experts.
And on the horizon, early reporting suggests the iPhone eighteen Pro's most meaningful upgrade may not be its variable aperture camera or its redesigned chip, but simply a significant jump in battery life. After years of incremental gains, that kind of practical improvement could matter more to everyday users than almost any other spec on the sheet.
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