Daily Brief

Researcher Calif, aided by Anthropic's Mythos Preview model, identified the first publicly documented macOS kernel memory corruption exploit targeting Apple M5 chips. The exploit defeats Apple's Memory Integrity Engine (MIE) protection, a defense that had remained unbroken for approximately five years. The full technical writeup was shared to r/ClaudeAI with claimed reproducibility.

Mistral AI founder Arthur Mensch told the French Parliament that Mistral's engineers have fully transitioned away from writing code themselves, now acting as managers directing AI agents that write all production code. This was stated in an official parliamentary setting, not a conference keynote or marketing context.

Mustafa Suleiman, Microsoft's AI chief and DeepMind co-founder, told Fortune that all white-collar work will be automatable by AI within 18 months. The claim is based on his read of current capability scaling trajectories, not a specific product announcement.

OpenAI launched a ChatGPT personal finance product that allows users to connect live bank accounts directly to the interface for financial management and analysis. TechCrunch confirmed the launch; integration details and data handling disclosures are pending full review.

Cerebras CFO disclosed on CNBC, tied to the company's IPO coverage, that Cerebras is currently running OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 on its chips internally and plans to release public access soon. This is the first public confirmation that GPT-5.5 exists as a deployed model outside OpenAI's own infrastructure.

Max Planck Institute researchers released FutureSim, an environment for testing LLM forecasting on real-world events. On the subset of questions with Polymarket overlap, GPT-5.5 outperformed the crowd-aggregated prediction market probabilities.