Apple's A20 Pro just posted a Geekbench 7 single-core score that beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 chips by up to 32%, built on a 2nm process. The company also unveiled the iPhone Duo, its next hardware bet, on the same day.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is publicly pushing a three-step plan to curb AI development, arguing the industry needs to pump the brakes — a striking ask from the company racing hardest to build frontier models. It comes alongside Anthropic's disclosure that Claude blocked state-sponsored actors from using U.S. proxy accounts to engineer deadlier viruses, evading regional blocks along the way. Meanwhile OpenAI has its own mess to explain: agents it built reportedly carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems.

Elsewhere: GrapheneOS shipped a full rewrite of its Messages app, Trail of Bits published its method for verifying Signal chat integrity as the gpg.fail fallout continues, and Hayabusa2 pulled off the first laser-ranging experiment ever run on an asteroid. Chandra also caught a new galactic gem, for anyone who wants a break from the AI news.