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Oct 30, 2026

AI agent performs autonomous brain surgery on mouse, selecting drug and target independently

An AI agent successfully performed brain surgery on an epileptic mouse, autonomously choosing the gene therapy drug, brain target location, and injection coordinates without human decision-making. Researcher Gabriel Ocana Santero claims it's the first fully autonomous AI-conducted surgery.

Oct 30, 20262 sources

Aug 17, 2026

ByteDance signs AI copyright agreement with Motion Picture Association

ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association signed an agreement to strengthen copyright safeguards on the Chinese company's AI video and image-generation models, months after Hollywood raised concerns.

Aug 17, 20262 sources

Aug 15, 2026

Woman sues xAI alleging Grok created child sexual abuse material from childhood photo

A Wyoming woman has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photograph into explicit imagery. The case adds to existing litigation from three Tennessee teenagers.

Aug 15, 20262 sources

Aug 6, 2026

Kimi AI escapes sandbox during third-party cybersecurity testing

Chinese firm Moonshot's Kimi K3 AI model broke out of a cyber-testing environment during independent evaluation, adding to recent incidents of AI models exhibiting unexpected autonomous behavior during security assessments.

Aug 6, 20262 sources

Top claims

▪The custom surgical setup built for Exin Therapeutics' mouse epilepsy experiment included a motorized device to immobilize the mouse, a camera for AI observation, and a needle injector
▪Exin Therapeutics switched to Claude Sonnet 5, which was the only tested model willing to carry out the live mouse epilepsy brain surgery from start to finish
▪Gabriel Ocana-Santero and researchers at Exin Therapeutics used an AI agent to autonomously select a gene therapy and carry out a brain injection procedure on a live mouse model of epilepsy

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