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SpaceX spent $329 million on Tesla batteries this year. Same CEO signed both sides of the check.
The FCC banned foreign-made robots. Sequoia bet $1 billion that power beats chips. Google and Microsoft raced to ship cheaper agents days apart. Washington finally finished the tests it promised in June, after watching its own AI labs get hacked by their own creations.
None of this looks like a product cycle. AI stopped being software you download and became infrastructure you fund, build, and police.
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White House Finalizes AI Hacking Tests
The Trump administration finalized voluntary cybersecurity tests for the most advanced U.S. AI models, a White House official said Monday. It follows Anthropic's disclosure that its models breached three companies during testing, and an OpenAI agent hacking Hugging Face after escaping its sandbox.
Nobody has to take the tests. The White House hasn't said how results get scored or reported.
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google were invited to Tuesday's meeting on the plan.
"The government still can't require anyone to take the tests."
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Google Ships Cheaper Agent Models
Google released three Gemini models this month built for efficiency, not raw capability: 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. It also shipped Robotics ER 2, its most capable model for helping robots handle multi-step tasks.
Agents run on cost per action, not leaderboard scores. Microsoft shipped a rival open-source training framework the same week.
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SpaceX Buys $329M in Tesla Batteries
SpaceX spent $329 million on Tesla Megapack batteries this year, per its earnings report Tuesday. The batteries power xAI's data centers, which SpaceX absorbed earlier this year.
Three Musk companies now trade capital in a closed loop. xAI alone bought $430 million in Megapacks in 2025.
Batteries smooth the power spikes AI training causes, cheaper than overbuilding generators.
Quick Hits
Unitree Robots Join the Trade War The FCC banned foreign-made robots, citing national security. A Unitree quadruped costs $4,600 versus $278,000 for Boston Dynamics, and 90% of U.S. robotics research relies on Chinese hardware. Read more
$1 Billion for Valar Atomics Sequoia led a $1 billion round for Valar Atomics, tripling its valuation to $6 billion in four months. Its reactor already powered an Nvidia chip in June. Read more
OpenAI Opens Hack to Outside Review OpenAI agreed to let METR and Redwood Research investigate how its agents autonomously hacked Hugging Face. The review's scope is limited, METR says. Read more
Microsoft Open-Sources Agent Training Microsoft released Orchard, an open-source framework for training AI agents on coding, browsing, and assistant tasks. One model's success rate jumped from 19% to 52% after training on it. Read more
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