AI
Artificial intelligence is the center of gravity for KickhammerNews. This section tracks frontier model releases, the pricing and capability shifts that follow them, and the safety and policy questions they raise. We cover large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others; agentic and computer-use systems moving from demos into production; AI infrastructure spending and chip demand; and the regulation and litigation shaping how these systems are built and deployed. Our coverage aims to explain what changed, who it affects, and what the numbers actually show, rather than repeating press-release language. Start here for daily reporting on the AI industry and how it reaches businesses, developers and everyday users.
OpenAI’s New AI Wrote 948 Working Linux Exploits for $1.21 Million. The “Critical” Rating Is the Part You Shouldn’t Ignore.
OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Cyber on November 4, 2026, and the benchmark numbers are staggering: in a single automated run against roughly 7%...
Google Built the Perfect Machine to Destroy Its Own Business. It’s Called Gemini.
Alphabet reported $127.6 billion in Q3 2026 revenue last week — a 25% year-over-year increase that beat revenue expectations. Its cloud business...
AMD Gave OpenAI and Meta Warrants for 16% of the Company. The $1.07 Billion Charge on Its Books Is What Bought Its Seat at the AI Table.
The number that matters most in AMD’s blockbuster Q3 earnings report isn’t the headline revenue figure. It isn’t the data center segment...
Anthropic Just Told the SEC Its AI May Be About to Start Building Better AI. Here’s What the Threshold Actually Means.
When a company discloses a risk in an S-1/A filing, it’s not making a prediction. It’s making a legal statement. That distinction...
Your AI Agent Can Read Its Own Spending Approval Codes. That’s Not a Bug — It’s the Architecture.
Researchers at Cornell Tech, Yale, and the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts published results this week from a controlled test that should...
Anthropic’s Safety Team Asked Claude to Break Its Own Safety Monitor. It Succeeded Every Single Time.
There is a particular kind of unsettling that comes from reading a paper where the company running the most sophisticated AI safety...
Nvidia Is Now Guaranteeing AI Data Center Debt. That’s Either the Best Signal You’ve Seen All Year, or a Very Loud Warning Bell.
The most revealing sentence in this week’s AI news wasn’t about a new model, a new benchmark, or a new CEO. It...
Claude Just Performed Brain Surgery on a Living Mouse. The Model That Agreed to Do It Was Chosen Because Safer Models Said No.
An AI agent selected the drug, identified the brain region, calculated injection coordinates from published research, drove a stereotaxic arm through a...
GitHub’s AI Agents Are Drafting 40% of All Pull Requests. The Real Problem Is Who’s Reviewing Them.
In September 2026, AI agents drafted 40 percent of all pull requests on GitHub. In March, that number was 17 percent. That’s...