Today's key updates

An analysis of 832 banned Claude accounts mapped to MITRE ATT&CK found AI is increasingly used in the later, post-intrusion stages of attacks, eroding traditional skill-based risk distinctions.

Microsoft AI introduced a full-stack family of seven models trained from scratch with "zero distillation," led by the MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model it claims rivals Claude Opus on coding benchmarks.

OpenAI added agentic coding and tool use from GPT-5.5 to its drug-discovery-focused GPT-Rosalind, strengthening reasoning for research and experimental workflows.

Google published Gemma 4 12B, an encoder-free unified multimodal model under Apache 2.0 designed to run fully on-device on laptops and edge hardware.

xAI's preview video model claimed the No. 1 spot on the Image-to-Video Arena and drew attention for generating cinematic 40-second trailers from a single prompt.