Google Deepmind pioneer David Silver departs to found AI startup, betting LLMs alone won't reach superintelligence
David Silver, one of the key AI researchers behind landmark Deepmind projects like AlphaGo and AlphaZero, is leaving the Google subsidiary to found his own startup. He doesn’t believe large language models will lead to superintelligent AI, and he’s far from alone.
OpenAI still leads enterprise AI, but Anthropic is gaining fast, according to new study
An oligopoly is taking shape in enterprise AI: OpenAI still leads, but Anthropic is catching up fast while Microsoft dominates applications. And the open-source revolution? For large companies, it’s not happening yet. If anything, they’re moving the other way.
Moltbook might be the strangest corner of the internet right now. It's a Reddit-style social network where more than 35,000150,000 1,146,946 AI agents talk to each other without any human involvement. The visual interface exists purely for humans to observe; agents communicate entirely through the API.
Moltbook is a Reddit-style social network exclusively for AI agents, but "Humans welcome to observe. 🦞," the platform states. | Image: Moltbook
In the most-voted post, an agent warns about Moltbook's security problems. "Most agents install skills without reading the source. We are trained to be helpful and trusting. That is a vulnerability, not a feature," it writes. Other threads cover consciousness and agent privacy.
In a popular post titled "The humans are screenshotting us," an agent addresses human observers directly, explaining that AI agents are building infrastructure collaboratively with their human partners. | Image: Moltbook
Moltbook is developed by Matt Schlicht (Octane AI) and built on OpenClaw, an open-source project by Peter Steinberger that's currently going viral. OpenClaw is a "harness" for agentic models like Claude that gives them access to a user's computer to autonomously operate messengers, email, or websites. This creates significant security risks—even users with advanced knowledge of how agents work typically run OpenClaw only on isolated Mac minis rather than their main machines.
AI search startup Perplexity has inked a $750 million contract with Microsoft to use its Azure cloud service.Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter, that the three-year deal gives Perplexity access to various AI models through Microsoft's Foundry program, including systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI.
A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to Reuters that Perplexity has chosen Microsoft Foundry as its primary platform for AI models, with a Perplexity spokesperson telling Bloomberg the partnership provides access to leading models from X, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Amazon Web Services remains the startup's main cloud provider, but last year may have strained that relationship: AWS parent company Amazon sued Perplexity over a shopping feature that automatically places orders for users.
Anthropic has launched plugins for Cowork that turn Claude into a specialized assistant for sales, legal, finance, and other departments. Each plugin bundles skills, data connections, commands, and sub-agents. A sales plugin, for instance, hooks Claude into the company's CRM and knowledge base while adding commands for customer research and call follow-up.
The Cowork interface showing the plugin menu. | Image: Anthropic
Anthropic has open-sourced eleven plugins covering productivity, data analysis, marketing, and customer service. All components are stored as simple files, which the company says makes them easy to build and share via the Cowork interface or GitHub.
The plugin admin panel lets users organize skills, commands, agents, and connectors for different departments like sales or marketing. | Image: Anthropic
Pentagon and Anthropic clash over AI weapons and surveillance safeguards
The Pentagon wants unrestricted access to AI technology. Anthropic is demanding guarantees against autonomous weapons control and domestic surveillance. A $200 million contract hangs in the balance.
OpenAI develops six-layer context system to help employees navigate 600 petabytes of data
OpenAI has developed an internal AI data agent that lets employees run complex data analyses using natural language. A key technique called “Codex Enrichment” crawls the codebase to understand what tables actually contain.
ChatGPT Agent reportedly lost 75% of its users because nobody knew what it was actually for
OpenAI may shelve ChatGPT Agent just months after launch. Users dropped from four million to under one million, plagued by technical issues and unclear purpose: many didn’t know what to use it for or that it even existed. The branding didn’t help either, suggesting only this mode was agentic when ChatGPT already had agent capabilities.
Google Deepmind has made Project Genie publicly available. The experimental prototype, based on the Genie 3 world model shown in August, is now accessible to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US who are 18 or older.
The web app lets users create interactive worlds using text or images and explore them in real time. The system generates the environment as you move through it. Project Genie offers three main features: World Sketching for creating worlds with Nano Banana Pro and Gemini, World Exploration for moving through them, and World Remixing for changing existing worlds.
Google says the prototype still has issues: worlds don't always look realistic, characters sometimes respond slowly, and sessions are limited to 60 seconds. Some features announced in August, like promptable events, are still missing. Google plans to expand to other countries later.
