Reports that Anthropic held talks to buy Physical Intelligence highlight how robotics is becoming a strategic front in the race beyond chatbots.

Microsoft and Mistral expanded their partnership to target regulated enterprises that want frontier AI with more control over deployment, tuning and governance.

A new report highlighted by Crypto Briefing says Chinese AI models are closing the performance gap with Anthropic on cybersecurity-related evaluations. Public details remain limited, but the claim matters because cyber capability is one of the clearest tests of how powerful frontier models are becoming — and one of the most sensitive for enterprise deployment, safety policy, and national competition.