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PrismML releases Bonsai 2 27B, which compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB, small enough for smartphones, while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's benchmark scores (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
A federal judge denies OpenAI's bid to see SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in an antitrust case, finding the materials irrelevant after a review (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem, the internal/external model gap, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across UN agencies via natural-language queries (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Anthropic says Claude "leads" 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and "collaborates" on 90%+, doing large chunks of work under close human direction (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code (Claude)
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI)
Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated (Anthropic)
Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are "much more science fiction than science" and the latest "wave of PR" is probably intended to shape regulation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)
NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)
A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: people in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than net job growth (Pew Research Center)
Analysis: in the Bay Area, tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ workers in the 12 months to June and software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022 (Francesca Maglione/Bloomberg)
Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announces a deal with Tata to manufacture and package chips in India, further sealing its split from Chinese parent company Wingtech (Toby Sterling/Reuters)
Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director is drafting an EO to establish a government-led incubator aimed at cybersecurity research (Bloomberg)

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