Google Deepmind connects its Genie 3 world model to Street View imagery: users drop a pin on a map and get a walkable, AI-generated world based on a real place. Google’s Street View data, collected over many years, becomes a strategic training resource for creative demos, but above all for AI agents and robots.
French AI company Mistral AI has acquired Vienna-based startup Emmi AI to expand its offering for industrial clients across Europe. The purchase price was not disclosed.
Emmi AI specializes in AI models that can simulate complex physical processes such as airflow, heat transfer, and material stress. The startup raised 15 million euros in Austria's largest funding round in 2025, Reuters reports.
Mistral builds custom AI systems for clients like ASML, Stellantis, and Veolia that can detect production defects or control robotic arms. CEO Arthur Mensch sees the acquisition as strengthening Mistral's position in aerospace, automotive, and semiconductors.
Cloudflare tested Anthropic's security-focused AI model Mythos Preview across more than 50 of its own code repositories as part of Project Glasswing. The model can chain multiple small vulnerabilities into working exploits and prove they're real by writing, compiling, and running proof-of-concept code on its own.
Earlier frontier models found similar individual bugs and sometimes delivered solid analysis, according to Cloudflare CSO Grant Bourzikas. But they fell short at stitching the pieces together, leaving chains unfinished and the question of actual exploitability open. Mythos Preview produced fewer speculative findings, clearer steps to reproduce issues, and needed less human follow-up to reach a fix-or-dismiss decision.
Cloudflare stresses that a single agent isn't enough. The company built a multi-stage harness with up to 50 parallel agents and adversarial review, where a second agent tries to disprove each finding. The company also warns: these same capabilities will be available to attackers, too.
Pope Leo XIV will present his first encyclical on artificial intelligence on May 25. Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah has been invited as a guest speaker.
Stanford student Theo Baker describes in a guest essay for the New York Times how ChatGPT shaped his entire graduating class. His conclusion: AI turned an already existing culture of dishonesty at the elite university into the default.
A coalition of conservative organizations led by Humans First has called on President Donald Trump in an open letter to issue an executive order requiring mandatory safety testing for frontier AI models before they ship.
Anthropic will brief leading finance ministries and central banks on vulnerabilities in the global financial system's cyber defenses that its new AI model Claude Mythos Preview has uncovered. According to the Financial Times, the initiative traces back to a request from Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England and chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). The FSB brings together financial regulators from the G20 nations.
Anthropic said last month that Mythos had found thousands of severe security flaws across all major operating systems and browsers. So far, only about 40 organizations have access to Mythos, including Amazon, Microsoft, and JPMorgan Chase. The White House recently asked Anthropic not to distribute the model more widely for now.
The IMF warned recently that new AI models could turn cyber risks into a "macro-financial shock." The FSB is working on a report about AI use in the financial system, set to come out next month.
