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In an interview with Bloomberg, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said some companies testing Mythos warned the system felt like a “super weapon” and argued access should be controlled like a gun license.
Anthropic says Mythos can find and exploit software flaws at a level beyond most human experts, and has already discovered thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers.
Source: Bloomberg Originals
06/17/2026
Odyssey, a start-up building AI systems that can simulate the physical world, just raised $310M in a Series B valuing the AI startup at $1.45 billion.
Amazon joined the round alongside Nvidia’s and AMD’s investment arms, GV, IQT, Google’s chief scientist Jeff Dean and Elad Gil.
As part of the deal, Odyssey will use AWS as its preferred cloud provider and deploy Amazon’s Trainium chips.
The company is developing “world models” that can understand physics, motion, body language and object relationships to create interactive 3D environments.
Source: Financial Times
06/17/2026
Allbirds has completed its unusual pivot from eco-friendly sneakers to AI infrastructure, renaming itself Smartbird and appointing former Amazon Web Services executive Nadia Carlsten as CEO.
Carlsten previously worked on advanced computing at AWS.
The move comes after Allbirds sold its shoe brand and assets to American Exchange Group.
Smartbird now plans to rent access to high-end AI servers and cloud services for businesses needing computing power.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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