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So while everyone else is obsessing over Google not being able to define words like “disregard, stop and ignore,” one UK region quietly handed its entire road network over to an artificial intelligence; and the results are making rush hour feel like a breezy 2 a.m. on a Sunday.
Okay, picture it: every single soul-crushing red light you have ever sat at, aggressively drumming your fingers on the steering wheel while watching the exact same three cars inch forward. Now imagine an AI just vacuumed up six whole months of that collective human misery.
That’s exactly what just went down in the Tees Valley, and the numbers coming out of the project are genuinely jaw-dropping.
The Tees Valley Combined Authority has officially confirmed that its AI-powered "digital twin" traffic system just slashed delays by up to 50% at busy junctions. It saved local drivers a combined 5,000 hours over a single year across just six monitored congestion hotspots.
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen summed up the triumph perfectly: "These are real, measurable results. The equivalent of more than six months of waiting time wiped away."
So, how does this wizardry actually work?
Honestly, think of it like a hyper-realistic video game simulation running silently underneath the real roads. The system builds a live virtual replica of the entire Tees Valley road network; a literal digital twin; that continuously drinks in real-time traffic data from roadside sensors and GPS-tracked buses.
Instead of waiting for a massive tailback to form, the AI accurately predicts where jams are about to happen up to an hour in advance. It then automatically tweaks the traffic light timings across the region to clear the bottleneck before things go sideways.
In fact the specific data from individual junctions is beautiful enough to bring a tear to a commuter's eye:
The A174 Parkway junction on Thornaby Road alone shed a massive 2,780 hours of delays in 12 months.
On Norton Road in Stockton drivers saved 715 hours of staring at brake lights.
Hart Lane and York Road in Hartlepool saved 575 and 365 hours respectively.
The entire system, beautifully named the FUSION scheme, now watches over 57 connected sites and 196 traffic signals across Teesside, Darlington, and Hartlepool. The combined authority has heavily invested over £2 million to make this a reality.
The Big Takeaway: For anyone quietly scanning the horizon to see where the real-world, unglamorous, actually-useful AI is gaining serious traction: infrastructure tech like this is the sector to watch.
A government-backed project delivering massive, measurable results at scale is a completely different conversation from a trendy chatbot demo. Of course, do your own deeper research before making any wild financial moves.
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🤯 Claude Mythos Just Crushed 10,000 Bugs Before It Even Launched. And Leaked Code Says It's Coming For All of Us Soon

Anthropic dropped its first official update on Project Glasswing, y’know, the restricted elite cybersecurity program it launched back in April, whose ultimate mission was to use advanced AI to hunt down and stop AI-powered cyberattacks.
We know, it’s giving major "set a thief to catch a thief" energy.
But the secret weapon doing the heavy lifting is an unreleased, locked-away frontier model called Claude Mythos Preview. And oh my word, the receipts are already stacking up. In just its first month of deployment, Mythos helped a small circle of tech giants discover more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across the world's most systemically important software.
Okay lets rewind a bit. Anthropic is currently keeping Claude Mythos Preview locked tightly in a digital vault, but they let their high-profile partners play with it for defensive security. The results are frankly terrifying when you realize how much broken code we rely on every single day.
Just look at how the early data shakes out from its first month in the wild:
Cloudflare found 2,000 bugs right out of the gate, with 400 of them rated high or critical severity.
Mozilla used Mythos to find and patch 271 Firefox vulnerabilities. That is ten times more than they caught when they tested with their older Claude models.
Microsoft: Remember their recent wave of unusually massive monthly patch releases? Yep; those were directly linked to Mythos sniffing out flaws in their ecosystem.
Anthropic even turned the model loose on 1,000 open-source projects and flagged a jaw-dropping 6,202 high-severity vulnerabilities out of 23,019 total candidates. One notable find was a critical flaw in the wolfSSL cryptography library; Mythos didn't just find it, it actually engineered a functional exploit that could let an attacker forge security certificates invisibly.
We’re talking about an unbelievable amount of digital landmines quietly buried in software humanity uses daily. According to Anthropic, progress on software security is no longer limited by how fast we can find bugs; it is limited by how fast human engineers can physically verify and patch them.
Here’s where the gossip gets genuinely juicy. According to a fascinating report by Testing Catalog, references to a model explicitly named "claude-mythos-1-preview" have been spotted hiding inside Anthropic's own web source code and its internal Claude Security interface.
The digital breadcrumbs don't stop there. Traces of the model have apparently surfaced on Google Cloud and AWS, and a few eagle-eyed users reportedly caught a brief, glitchy glimpse of "Mythos 1" selectable inside the standard Claude UI.
But wait, there is more. The same report leaks that Anthropic is actively building a revamped, enterprise-grade Claude Security dashboard. The mockups show features that display discovered vulnerabilities, seven-day and thirty-day historical charts, and deep triage breakdowns.
Let's be real: that is not the kind of heavy infrastructure you build for an AI model you plan to keep locked in a basement forever.
So why is Mythos still technically gated?
Anthropic has been incredibly transparent about the danger. No company; including itself; has successfully built safeguards strong enough to stop a model with this level of autonomous hacking capability from being horribly misused by bad actors.
However, they have confirmed they fully plan to release Mythos-class models to the public the exact second those safety guardrails exist. And with its name actively leaking into cloud infrastructure and user dashboards? That fateful day might be arriving a lot sooner than anyone in Silicon Valley officially admits.
The current star-studded roster of Project Glasswing partners includes Amazon Web Services, Apple, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks, alongside a growing mix of US and international government intelligence agencies.
Oh, and One More Thing: While saving the literal internet from destruction, Anthropic is also casually preparing to print money. The company is officially on track to post its first-ever profitable quarter in history.
For the quarter ending in June, internal investor leaks project a staggering $10.9 billion in revenue with an operating profit of $559 million. To put that in perspective, that more than doubles their revenue from the first three months of the year. Talk about a massive, high-margin glow-up!
So the question is: Would you trust an unreleased, hyper-powerful AI model to autonomously scan your personal or company code, or does the thought of a model that knows how to build its own exploits give you the absolute creeps?
We’ll be diving deeper into this on our YouTube channel later today, so don't miss it!
Q1 2026: $20.8B in BDC Redemption Requests. 0.44% Lifetime Net Loss Rate on Percent.
In Q1 2026, the non-traded BDC market hit $20.8B in redemption requests — most investors received roughly half of what they asked for. Moody's revised the U.S. BDC sector outlook to Negative. Investors who thought they owned liquid private credit found out their fund manager decided whether they could get out.
On Percent's marketplace that same quarter: new issuances, scheduled payments, and a 0.44% lifetime net loss rate on asset-based deals that's held since inception.†
The difference is structural. BDCs often own concentrated corporate loans with quarterly redemption windows that close at the manager's discretion. Percent finances specialty lenders against pools of performing receivables — diversified, overcollateralized, short duration.
Track record through 3/31/26:†
14.6% net ABS returns LTM after losses
0.44% lifetime net loss rate since inception (asset-based deals)
$1.62B+ in ABS originations
870+ offerings completed
Deal terms 6–24 months · Starting at $500
Alternative investments are speculative. No assurance can be given that investors will receive a return of their capital. Secondary market transactions are subject to availability and issuer approval; liquidity is not guaranteed. †Past performance is not indicative of future results. Terms apply.
🧱 Around The AI Block
🧐 How big tech got its way on Trump’s AI executive order.
👩⚕️ The rise in plastic surgeons asked to create ‘AI face’.
🫣 The literary world got embarrassingly deceived by AI.
🤑 DeepSeek permanently reduces the price of its flagship V4 model by 75 percent.
😟 Google is currently struggling to define words like disregard, stop and ignore
🤖 People used AI to recreate the voices of pilots killed in a plane crash.
👨💻 AI washing’: firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused.
🛠️ Trending Tools
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For the Power Collaborators: Sugarbug turns your team’s digital footprint into a dynamic knowledge graph. By syncing with Slack, GitHub, Figma, and your calendar, it automatically prepares meeting briefs and status updates before you even have to ask, keeping everyone aligned without the manual overhead.
For the High-Scale Creatives: Picsart Enterprise allows you to bake professional creative tools directly into your own applications. Its APIs handle background removal, upscaling, and AI visual generation at scale, integrating seamlessly with Google Drive and Gemini to automate your entire creative production workflow.
🤖 AI Workout Of The Day: How to Structure Your Podcast or Shows With the Help of AI
So you’ve got a podcast idea brewing, but you’re stuck staring at a blank page wondering how to shape it into something binge-worthy. That’s where this prompt comes in.
Think of it as your backstage producer, helping you turn raw ideas into fully fleshed-out show concepts that grab attention, speak directly to your audience, and keep them coming back week after week.
Here’s How to Use This Prompt Effectively
Pick your topic first: Drop in what you’re passionate about (e.g., productivity, true crime, startups, wellness).
Add context about your goals: Is this for brand building, community growth, monetization, or just a creative side project?
Define your audience: Be specific: are you targeting beginners, pros, or a niche community? The clearer you are about who you want listening, the sharper the recommendations will be.
Experiment with formats: Ask the AI to give you variations (e.g., “make one an interview show, one a narrative show, one a hybrid”).
Iterate & refine: Once you see an outline you like, you can run follow-ups eg: “Expand episode #2 into a full script breakdown” or “Suggest 10 more titles in the same vibe.”
This way, you won’t just have an idea; you’ll have a fully structured, professional-level show blueprint that you can actually start producing.
💡 Prompts to try:
"You are an expert podcast strategist. Help me create detailed outlines for potential podcast shows on [TOPIC]. For each idea, include:
-Show Title & Tagline: Something catchy and memorable that instantly tells listeners what the show is about.
-Target Audience & Why They’d Care: Define who the show is for, what they value, and why they’ll tune in.
-Recommended Format: Choose the best style (interviews, solo, storytelling, panel, hybrid, etc.) that fits the concept.
-Episode Structure Breakdown: Map out the flow (e.g., intro, recurring segments, guest Q&A, outro).
-3 Episode Examples: Each with a title and short description so I can visualize the show in action.
Provide 3–5 distinct podcast show outlines.
Also:
-Suggest ways to differentiate each concept from other podcasts in the same niche.
-Recommend potential themes, recurring segments, or creative hooks that make the show more engaging.
-Highlight opportunities for audience interaction, partnerships, or future growth (like spinoff newsletters or live shows).Is this your AI Workout of the Week (WoW)? Cast your vote!
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