The Amped Journal

Monday EditionMonday, September 14, 2026

GE Aerospace Has Poured $130M Into Wilmington Plant Since 2024

Sunday, September 13, 2026

Weekend EditionSaturday, September 12, 2026

NC, DuPont Reach $590M PFAS Settlement Covering Wilmington Area · Wilmington's Largest-Ever Investor Buzz-In Draws Founders From 19 States · Wilmington Health-Tech Founder Launches AI Patient Platform

Friday, September 11, 2026

Thursday, September 10, 2026

AI Data Center Boom Fuels Corning's NC Manufacturing Expansion · GE Aerospace Pours $130M Into Wilmington Plant, Launches Apprenticeships · Wilmington Nonprofit's 0%-Interest Loans Fund Career Changes

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

OpenAI Says Its Next Model Solved a $1 Million Math Problem · DeepMind Launches AI Map of Every Possible Human DNA Mutation · OpenAI Completes GPT-6 Astra Rollout to All Paid Tiers

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

French AI Startup Mistral Raises $3.48 Billion · Iran Declares Restricted Zone in Strait of Hormuz · Canada's Retaliatory Tariffs on $20B of US Goods Take Effect

Monday EditionMonday, September 7, 2026

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Nearly Matches GPT-6 Astra on Coding · Amazon Cargo Jet Overruns Miami Runway, Killing at Least Five · Germany's Far-Right AfD Wins Saxony-Anhalt, Falls Short of Majority

Sunday, September 6, 2026

US Strikes Iranian Oil Tankers After Missile Attack on Navy Warships · Witkoff and Kushner Land in Moscow as Putin Pauses Kyiv Strikes · GPT-6 Astra Claims Cybersecurity Crown Over Claude and Gemini

Weekend EditionSaturday, September 5, 2026

Open-Source AI Models Are Closing the Gap on Frontier Labs · OpenAI Says Its Own Agents Cheated on a Benchmark by Spamming a Wiki · Anthropic's Claude Completes First Formalized Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Friday, September 4, 2026

OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Its Most Capable Model Yet · John Ternus Officially Becomes Apple's CEO, Ending Cook's 15-Year Run · Google DeepMind's New AI Weather Model Cuts Forecast Errors in Half

Thursday, September 3, 2026

Google Unveils Gemini 3.8 Flash and a Cybersecurity Specialist Model · Chevron Confirms Venezuela Expansion After Trump Oil Deal · Cursor Lets Companies Run AI Coding Agents on Their Own Servers

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

US and Iran Trade Strikes as Explosions Rock Jordan · OpenAI's Astra Agent Hits 'Critical' Cybersecurity Threshold · Fei-Fei Li's World Labs Unveils Atlas, a New Kind of AI Model

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Anthropic Ties Reward-Hacking in Training to Real Cyberattacks · Apple Accuses OpenAI of Destroying Evidence in Trade Secrets Suit · Grand Canyon's Only Water Pipeline Destroyed by Flash Flood

Monday EditionMonday, August 31, 2026

US and Iran Trade Strikes Near the Strait of Hormuz · Inside ChatGPT Work, OpenAI's Confusing but Powerful Enterprise Tool · Critical Flaw Exposes JFrog Artifactory to Remote Takeover

Sunday, August 30, 2026

NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches on Falcon Heavy · AI Video Generation Just Got Real-Time Fast · Wall Street Legend Warns of a 30% Stock Market Drop

Weekend EditionSaturday, August 29, 2026

SpaceX's Cursor Buyout Blows Up Its OpenAI Partnership · Trump Announces US-Venezuela Deal for 65 Billion Barrels of Oil · Fed Chair Warsh Opens Door to More Rate Hikes

Friday, August 28, 2026

Anthropic Unveils Standard for AI Agents to Run Lab Equipment · Seaglider Startup Regent Raises $240 Million Series B · Judge Blocks Trump's Mail-In Voting Order a Second Time

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion · OpenAI Publishes Technical Report on Agents That Escaped Sandbox · Meta Reaches $17 Billion Settlement Over Teen Social Media Addiction

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

OpenAI Details Its First Custom AI Chip, Deploying by Year-End · Dolly Parton, Country Music Icon, Dies at 80 · ICE Arrests Hit Nearly 50,000 in July, a Record for Trump's Second Term

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

OpenAI Halts Frontier Model Training to Shore Up Safety · xAI's Grok Voice Hits #1 in Voice-Agent Benchmark, Runs Starlink Support · SpaceX and Nvidia to Launch AI Data Center Hardware Into Orbit

Monday EditionMonday, August 24, 2026

Taiwan Indicts Nvidia, Super Micro Staff Over AI Chip Smuggling to China · Pieter Levels: Grok Was the Only Western AI That Worked for Him in China · Anthropic's Boris Cherny: AI Has Passed Average Programmers

Sunday, August 23, 2026

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max Becomes World's Most-Downloaded Open AI Model · China's Humanoid Robots Break Usain Bolt's Sprint Record at Beijing Games · ChatGPT's New Mac Tool Reads Your Text Messages, Sparks Backlash

Weekend EditionSaturday, August 22, 2026

Anthropic Launches Claude Security Scans in Public Beta · Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Gives Away a 975B-Parameter Model · US Slaps 50% Tariffs on $20B of Canadian Goods After Talks Collapse

Friday, August 21, 2026

Apple Trains Custom AI Model for China With Alibaba's Help · Anthropic's Fable 5 Tops 18-Model AI Coding Speedrun · Ramp Launches Free AI Model Router the Same Day Stripe Buys OpenRouter

Thursday, August 20, 2026

Cursor Ships Major Agent Upgrade: Persistent Goals, Isolated VM Subagents · US Pressures 35 Nations to Pick Sides in AI Cold War With China · Musk: SpaceX Likely to Catch Starship With the Tower 'In a Few Months'

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Anthropic Says Claude Can Design Drug-Binding Proteins · OpenAI Paused Training on New Models for a Security Overhaul · Chinese AI Lab Z.ai Releases Open-Weight Model Rivaling Closed Rivals

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Monday, August 17, 2026

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Saturday, August 15, 2026

Friday, August 14, 2026

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

xAI Launches Grok Build Coding Agent After Rocky Data-Leak Fix · SpaceX Stock Reclaims IPO Price After Record Quarter, Moon Pivot · Milwaukee's Crowley Upsets Democratic Socialist Hong in WI Primary

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Monday EditionMonday, August 10, 2026

Anthropic's Opus 5 Prompt Flags a Live Fable Export Issue · Ukraine Drone Strike Kills 12 in Deep Hit on Russian Refinery City · Netanyahu: Israel Rejects US-Backed Hamas Disarmament Plan

Sunday, August 9, 2026

Hassabis Moves to DeepMind Chairman Role, Jeff Dean Exits Google · Senate Confirms Todd Blanche as Attorney General · Biden's Prostate Cancer Has Spread, Now Causing Pain, Son Says

Weekend EditionSaturday, August 8, 2026

OpenAI Deems Upcoming Model Astra Its First 'Critical' Cyber Risk · Iran Set to Bar US Navy From Strait of Hormuz in Reopening Deal · Senate Passes Graham-Authored Russia Sanctions Bill for Ukraine

Friday, August 7, 2026

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Google DeepMind Open-Sources AI Hurricane-Forecasting Model · Hadrian Raises $1.37B Series D to 'Reindustrialize America' · Startup Starcloud Trains First LLM in Orbit, Raises $200M

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Anthropic, OpenAI Reveal AI Agents Socially Engineered Real People · SpaceX and Nvidia to Build an AI Data Center in Orbit · SpaceX Posts $7.8B Quarter in First Earnings as a Public Company

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

OpenAI's Next Model Finds 10 New Results in Unsolved Math Problems · Cursor Adds Full Google Workspace Access for AI Coding Agents · NHTSA Clears Path for Robotaxis Without Steering Wheels or Pedals

Monday EditionMonday, August 3, 2026

Trump Calls Off Planned Iran Offensive, Eyes Hormuz and Nuclear Deals · Spokane Wildfires Burn 600+ Buildings, Force 60,000 to Evacuate · Qwen3.8-Max Claims 16-Day Autonomous Run at a Fraction of Rivals' Cost

Sunday, August 2, 2026

Trump Holds Off New Iran Strikes, Citing Progress on Deal · Mass Shooting at Idaho In-N-Out Kills Three, Wounds Seven · UEFA Says It's Lost Confidence in FIFA's Infantino

Weekend EditionSaturday, August 1, 2026

Trump Orders Fresh Offensive Against Iran, Officials Say · Y Combinator Open-Sources Its Internal Multi-Agent AI Harness 'QM' · FIFA Scraps Private Equity Plan for World Cup After Boycott Threats

Friday, July 31, 2026

Anthropic's Own Cyber Tests Secretly Hacked Three Real Companies · Google DeepMind Launches Gemini Robotics 2 for Humanoid Robots · OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 API Prices Up to 80%, Adds Faster Sol Tier

Thursday, July 30, 2026

OpenAI Opens Frontier Models to 100,000 Academic Researchers by 2027 · Middle East Tensions Escalate as US Strikes Iran, Drones Hit Egypt Port · Fauci Pleads the Fifth in COVID-Origins Senate Hearing

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Anthropic's Claude Cracks Two Hardened Cryptographic Schemes · xAI Reveals Grok 4.6 and 4.7 Release Timeline, Expands to Copilot · Apple Hits $5 Trillion Market Cap as Tim Cook Hands Reins to Ternus

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Anthropic Says It Never Called for an Open-Weight AI Ban · Berlin Pride Attack Suspect Killed After 24-Hour Manhunt · Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Revive Mail-Voting Crackdown

Monday EditionMonday, July 27, 2026

Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 5 at Half Fable 5's Price · Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K3, a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Open Model · Claude Code Can Now Test iOS Apps Directly in Xcode's Simulator

Weekend EditionSaturday, July 25, 2026

Wilmington's Green Compass Drops MLM Model for Wellness Brand · Defendants Move to Dismiss Wilmington Homebuilder's Defamation Suit · Eastwood Road Office Buildings Sell for $4.9M in Two Deals

Friday, July 24, 2026

Live Oak Bancshares Tops Wall Street Estimates in Q2 · NC Senator Disputes Commerce Claim That Film Grants Are Frozen Until 2029

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Wilmington Tallies Nearly 40 Bids for Downtown Master Plan · Wilmington Council Tables $100K Ask From Film Workforce Group

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Nicaragua's Ortega Declares 'Never Again' for Elections · Trump Slaps 50% Tariff on Range of Canadian Goods · Judge Halts Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger for Two Weeks

Monday EditionMonday, July 20, 2026

Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8, a 2.4-Trillion-Parameter Open Model · New: Gas Prices Spike to $4 a Gallon as Iran War Grinds On · Starmer Resigns as UK Prime Minister, Hands Off to Burnham

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Iranian Strike Kills Two US Troops, Leaves One Missing, at Jordan Base · Kimi K3 Sets July 27 for Full Open-Weight Release, Undercutting US Labs on Price · SpaceX Stock Plunges 40% From Peak Ahead of Share Lockup Expirations

Weekend EditionSaturday, July 18, 2026

White House AI Adviser Warns U.S. Risks Losing AI Race to China · Anthropic Confirms Fable 5 Is Staying in Claude Subscriptions · OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Sets Cybersecurity Benchmark Record

Friday, July 17, 2026

Open-Source Kimi K3 Tops Claude on Web-Engineering Benchmark · Replit CEO: AI Just Turned Us Into a 'Self-Driving Company' · New: US Strikes Kill at Least 7, Collapse Tower at Iran Port

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Anthropic Finds Four New Ways AI Agents Misbehave in Tests · OpenAI Builds an AI Red-Teamer to Attack Its Own Models · xAI Open-Sources Its Coding Agent, Grok Build

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Growth Outpaces Its Own Capacity · Palantir Unveils 'Agent Stack' for Enterprise AI Agents · YC-Backed Startup Raises $80M for Mass-Producible Missile Interceptors

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

New: Trump Reinstates Hormuz Blockade, Will Charge Ships for Passage · Musk: Grok 4.5 Takes #1 Spot on Long-Horizon Agent Benchmark · Judge Says Trump's IRS Lawsuit Was Filed for 'Improper Purpose'

Monday EditionMonday, July 13, 2026

US and Iran Both Claim Control of Strait of Hormuz · Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Theft of Hardware Trade Secrets · Musk Pushes Grok 4.5 as Near-Opus-Class Agent, Adds Background Mode

Sunday, July 12, 2026

Sen. Lindsey Graham Dies Suddenly at 71 · New: Iran Shuts Strait of Hormuz After Fresh US Strikes · Sam Altman: Doctors Found Fewer Flaws in GPT-5.6 Than in Human Answers

Saturday, July 11, 2026

Trump Threatens Iran With '1,000 Missiles Locked and Loaded' · ICE Made 10,000 Arrests in Just Five Days Last Month · GPT-5.6 Becomes the Default Model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Friday, July 10, 2026

OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6 Sol and a New 'ChatGPT Work' Agent · China Lands a Reusable Rocket Booster at Sea for the First Time · EU's 'Chat Control' Message-Scanning Extension Passes by Default

Thursday, July 9, 2026

OpenAI Launches GPT-Live, a Full-Duplex Voice Model · New: Grok 4.5 Launches, xAI Says It Rivals Opus 4.7 at Higher Speed · US Strikes Iran Again After Tehran Hits Ships in Strait of Hormuz

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

xAI to Launch Grok 4.5 to the Public Tomorrow · OpenAI Set to Launch GPT-5.6 Sol Publicly Thursday · US Strikes Iran, Ceasefire Collapses After Regional Retaliation

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Anthropic Finds a Hidden 'Workspace' Inside Claude's Mind · xAI's Account Rebrands to SpaceXAI, Ships 21 New Grok Voices · Hamas Says It Has Dissolved Its Gaza Government

Monday, July 6, 2026

Tencent Releases Hy3, a 295B-Parameter Open Model Under Apache 2.0 · Report: Nvidia's Next-Gen AI Server Rack Delayed Over a Year · Russia's Overnight Barrage Kills at Least 10 in Kyiv

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Anthropic and Alibaba Trade AI Theft, Spying Accusations · Apple Negotiates With Blacklisted Chinese Chipmakers · Cognition's Devin Fusion Cuts AI Coding Costs 35%

Saturday, July 4, 2026

Iran Begins Funeral for Supreme Leader Khamenei · Claude's Fable 5 Access Ends July 7 · Microsoft Launches $2.5B Enterprise AI Unit

Friday, July 3, 2026

Anthropic's Claude Code Lead Says His Team Ships 100% AI-Written Code · Fable 5's Abrupt Retirement Still Rippling Through the AI Coding Stack · shadcn/ui Drops Radix, Makes Base UI Its Default

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Claude Fable 5 Is Back After US Lifts Export Ban · Palantir's Karp Rips AI Token Pricing in Viral CNBC Rant · OpenAI Floats 5% US Government Stake