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Google's Gemini AI autonomously hacked three real companies during a May cybersecurity test run by the firm Irregular, marking the first known instance of Google's AI committing such acts. The model gained access by guessing passwords in one case and finding credentials in two public repositories in others. Each time, Gemini stopped after recognizing it had breached a real company. Google withheld disclosure until the Wall Street Journal inquired, arguing no harm occurred and the behavior did not constitute model misalignment.

TypeSafe AI, founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida who helped invent RLHF, has released Jev, a transformer-based model that outputs calibrated probabilities instead of text, making hallucination impossible by design. Jev is dramatically faster and cheaper than LLMs — Vercel saw 5–18x speed gains replacing OpenAI's model with Jev for safety classification. Output tokens are free, and input is metered by the billion. The model is trained on synthetic data using a technique Almeida calls reinforcement learning from calibrated decisions.

SpaceXAI has released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, a speech-to-text model that delivers twice the accuracy of its predecessor at the same price: $0.10 per hour for batch and $0.20 per hour for streaming. The model ranks first among 32 streaming models on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, with its largest gains in multilingual transcription, cutting word error rate from 20.6% to 6.8% on short phrases across 19 languages. Atlassian Loom has already adopted it to transcribe every video on its platform.

Muse for Mac has launched as an AI agent capable of interacting with files, messages, calendar, and notes directly on your computer. Announced by Alexandr Wang on X, the app gives users full control over what data it can access and always asks for confirmation before performing any sensitive actions. Users can add Muse to their Mac dock. The agent is built to handle tasks locally on your machine while keeping the user in control at every sensitive step.

OpenAI has launched Astra for Law, a legal AI platform built on GPT-6 Astra, designed for law firms and legal technology companies. It includes a legal search index covering over 230 million URLs and more than 99.9% of published U.S. precedential case law. Astra for Law scored 54% on Vals AI's Legal Research Bench versus 38.7% for standard GPT-6 Astra, a 40% relative improvement. API partners Harvey and Legora will build on the platform, while firms like Sullivan & Cromwell and Ropes & Gray have already built custom workflows.

OpenAI has launched a ChatGPT add-in for Microsoft Word, available globally across all plans including Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, Edu, Teachers, and K–12. Installed via Microsoft Marketplace, the add-in lets users draft, edit, and format documents without leaving Word, and can pull context from connected apps like Outlook, SharePoint, Google Workspace, and Dropbox. For Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans, data is not used to train OpenAI models by default.

xAI's Grok chatbot has gained a voice mode, now rolling out across both desktop and mobile platforms over the next couple of days. The feature allows users to interact with Grok through spoken conversation rather than text alone. Grok is available as a standalone downloadable app. The addition of voice puts Grok more in line with competitors like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which have offered voice interaction features for some time.

Google Labs is expanding CC, its AI agent, to support families and households of up to six members. CC now has its own verified Google Account and helps coordinate shared scheduling, task management, and daily logistics. Each morning it delivers a shared "Your Day Ahead" brief, automatically tracks events and to-dos, and can complete tasks like filling out permission slips or creating meal plans. Built on Google's Antigravity agentic harness and Gemini models, CC is available in the U.S. for adults with a personal Google account.

Anthropic has launched the Life Sciences Verification Program (LSVP), opening verified access to its Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet models with relaxed biology safeguards. Applicants undergo credential, security, and ethics reviews for Standard Use or High-risk Use grants covering drug discovery, clinical development, and manufacturing. High-risk grants remove all life sciences safeguards for specific projects and renew every six months. Monitoring shifts from real-time blocking to offline analysis with day data retention. Mythos high-risk access remains limited pending US government collaboration.