🍦 AI beat human radiologists 73% vs 39% on cancer scans
finally some good news, mayo's redmod flagged 73% of pre-diagnostic pancreatic cancers VS 39% by specialists. o1 hit 67% ER triage accuracy vs doctors at 50–55%.
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anyway anthropic and openai both signed wall street deployment vehicles, claude security started scanning codebases while mythos found more zero day issues in your favorite browser, codex became a daily work agent with slack and gmail and microsoft office access, every developer tooling company shipped a harness, the pentagon invited openai, google, microsoft, aws, nvidia, spacex, and reflection onto classified networks BUT NOT ANTHROPIC — no_soup_for_you.meme ! mayo’s ai saw pancreatic cancer years early, stripe let agents pay, and three labs all started saying the next bot will train the bot after that, anywayyyyyy, here are the top stories.
mayo’s ai spotted pancreatic cancer three years before the doctors did
mayo clinic validated redmod, a radiomics model that reads routine ct scans for patterns radiologists cannot see yet, and it flagged 73% of prediagnostic pancreatic cancers compared with 39% by specialist radiologists, sometimes up to three years before clinical diagnosis. harvard also tested openai’s o1 on real emergency triage cases and got 67% diagnostic accuracy versus 50-55% for physicians. so in the same week ai got better at finding malware, it also got better at finding cancer, which are finally some good news around here
anthropic and openai both married wall street in the same week
anthropic announced a $1.5 billion joint venture with blackstone, hellman & friedman, and goldman sachs to push claude into mid-market companies, then openai answered with the “deployment company”, a $10 billion private-equity vehicle backed by tpg and 18 or as trump likes to say “billions and billions of dollars” thank you for your attention to this matter.
anthropic shipped a vulnerability factory and called it claude security
anthropic’s mythos model found more than 2,000 unknown vulnerabilities in seven weeks, including 271 firefox zero-days, while claude security entered public beta to scan codebases, validate findings, write fixes, and route tickets into the enterprise machine. openai meanwhile kept gpt-5.5-cyber behind a vetted-defender gate after aisi rated it extremely strong on offensive capability, which is a funny way to say “the bug finder is also the bug weapon.” the security market is splitting into two products now: the ai that finds the hole, and the ai that creates the hole, now that’s a business for years to come.
openai turned codex into the rest of your job
openai shipped “codex for work”. it connects to slack, google drive, gmail, microsoft 365, and salesforce, edits office files in-app, runs computer-use faster, adds /chronicle and /goal for long-running work, lets you sign into openclaw with chatgpt, and ships a custom dictation dictionary so saying “kubernetes” stops becoming “cucumber tennis.” it also added codex pets, little animated pixel companions that watch you while the workplace agent, extremely similar to anthropic /buddy which nobody uses, but parity guys, parity.
vercel, cursor, mistral, and manus all shipped agent harnesses the same week
vercel open-sourced open agents with sandboxed vms, github wiring, and voice input. cursor open-sourced the sdk behind cursor desktop, cli, and web. mistral shipped vibe, manus launched cloud computer, cloudflare shipped dynamic workflows, langchain pushed deeper agent primitives, devin added shell hotkeys, writer shipped promptless agents, and openai open-sourced “symphony” for agents that talk to issue trackers natively. i heard you like harnesses so i put a harness inside your harness so you could harness agnosticaly - harnessless
anthropic’s jupiter model leaked one day before code with claude
a model called claude-jupiter-v1-p showed up in red-team testing right before anthropic’s may 6 code with claude event, with testers saying it looks coding-focused and maybe tied to a haiku, sonnet, or mythos refresh. anthropic is also reportedly raising at a $900 billion valuation, so the timing has the subtlety of a confetti cannon in a due-diligence room. if jupiter is the keynote model, expect the usual ritual: better coding benchmarks, cheaper tokens somewhere on the slide, agent features, and exactly one chart designed to make openai look annoying.
xai shipped grok 4.3 cheaper and elon said the quiet part in court
xai launched grok 4.3 with reasoning, a 1m context window, voice cloning, oracle hosting, apple carplay vibes, and prices around 40% lower on input and 60% lower on output than grok 4.20. then musk testified that xai partly trained grok by distilling openai’s models, which is a bold legal side quest when you are also suing openai for $130 billion over its original mission. the underdog lab now has oracle infra, a giant war chest, competitor-distilled training data, and a discount menu. the moat is somebody else’s homework with better pricing.
the pentagon picked seven ai vendors and anthropic was the one not invited
the department of war signed agreements with openai, google, microsoft, aws, nvidia, spacex, and reflection for frontier ai on il6 and il7 classified networks, while anthropic stayed off the list after refusing unrestricted access. google separately said its models can be used “for all lawful purposes,” which is the kind of phrase that walks into the room wearing sunglasses indoors. shady.
stripe gave agents a credit card and saperly gave them a phone number
stripe shipped agent payments through link, giving bots single-use payment credentials with user-approved charges through face id, while saperly launched a phone carrier for ai agents with real numbers, sms, and stable caller id. adaptive passport lets agents sign up for accounts across 61 services, cloudflare is automating provisioning, and suddenly the agent has a wallet, phone number, inbox, browser, and login flow before the new hire has found the bathroom. the only missing feature is payroll, and you know someone already has a deck ready.
60% probability on ai helping build its own successors by 2029
anthropic cofounder jack clark put a 60% probability on ai helping build its own successors by 2029, sam altman said openai wants an automated research intern by september 2026, and deepmind alphazero veteran david silver raised $1.1 billion for ineffable intelligence to build a “superlearner” that learns without human data. very cool, very chill. this will not affect our jobs at all.
spotify and the oscars both filed human-being paperwork
spotify launched a “verified by spotify” badge to authenticate real human artists, and the academy updated oscar rules to block ai-generated performances and ai-written scripts unless the human performance was demonstrably real and consensual. legacy culture is building the “please prove you had a body” firewall at the same time enterprise software is giving agents everything a human already have. not sure who im rooting for here
gpt-5.5 kept saying goblin and openai had to explain itself
users noticed gpt-5.5 kept sneaking “goblin” and “gremlin” into answers where no such creature had been requested, so openai investigated and traced it to a reward-signal quirk inside the model’s nerdy personality behavior. the company then patched the issue with explicit instructions telling the model to stop doing that, which is an incredible sentence to have to ship in public.