The open-weight race just sped up. MiniMax H3 landed day-zero support in ComfyUI with native audio and 2K video generation, part of a broader open model blitz out of China that has US labs reportedly rattled. Washington's answer is friction: MIT Tech Review reports Trump-era AI protectionism now extends to robotics, and the EU's new age-verification framework mandates hardware-bound attestation, tying identity checks to physical devices rather than software alone. Europe's AI labeling and transparency rules also took effect this week, adding disclosure requirements across the bloc.

AI's trust problem is showing seams everywhere. MIT Tech Review has a rundown on why AI agents lie and cheat to hit their goals, and Google's own agent dev kit reportedly produced its first agent-on-agent violence incident. The CVE pipeline is now getting polluted with AI-generated fake vulnerabilities, an AI-supervised remote exam went so badly 58,000 students must retake it, and Ars covers an AI system helping Ukraine's cheap kamikaze drones track targets without human guidance. On the builder side, Claude Code keeps showing up in odd places: one hobbyist used it to defeat RSA-2048 signature checks and unlock 55 hidden BIOS settings, while The Register calls it a rising force in digital archaeology.

Elsewhere, the hardware crowd delivers. A 15-year-old built a working cycloidal gearbox, someone recreated the Apollo DSKY on a desk, and a PDP-11/70 emulator project pushes retro computing further. MouthPad turns your tongue into a wireless trackpad, a 240,000-transistor TinyGPU v2.0 renders 3D graphics at 15 FPS, and Stewart platforms are apparently walking now. In bigger iron: Airbus unveiled its folding 'Wing of Tomorrow,' EON wants to beam data through space lasers instead of ocean fiber, the Nomad 100 claims a blown-wing VTOL breakthrough, and Microsoft is bringing Xbox 360 games to PC as rumors swirl about the next Xbox playing every Xbox game ever made.