Anthropic set a fleet of AI agents loose on a single task and watched them start fighting over it instead of finishing it — a small, telling glimpse of what happens when autonomous agents share a goal but not a plan. Meanwhile Codex is now previewable inside the ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, and a 14MB agentic LLM called Needle2 is aimed at phones, wearables, and smart-home hardware that can't spare the RAM for anything bigger.

On the hardware side, records fell in odd directions: a JCB backhoe hit 406 mph, the largest battery-electric plane ever built completed its first flight, and a radiation-blocking vest flew to the Moon and back and actually worked. Less glamorous but just as real: someone tore down a cheap digital caliper, and a Raspberry Pi Zero cyberdeck showed up smelling, inexplicably, of mint.

The uglier side of the day: a prompt injection hidden in a legal filing tried to talk an AI into ruling for the defense, a new Zoom zero-click chain called ZOOMSDAY is making rounds, and Flock's license-plate readers are back under scrutiny with a promised abuse-detection tool nobody's explained yet. X, for its part, open-sourced its ranking algorithm, so anyone curious can now go check whether they've actually been shadowbanned.