Week 40 · 2026

NASA JPL tested the Claude model from Anthropic in planning routes for the Perseverance rover on Mars

In December 2025, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the Claude model from Anthropic to help plan two drives of the Perseverance rover on Mars. The route was reviewed and adjusted by human operators before being uploaded to the rover.

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Wuhan court includes AI costs in copyright infringement damages calculation

A court in Wuhan for the first time included the costs of tokens and licensing fees for AI tools in the calculation of damages in a copyright infringement case involving an AI-generated drama. The plaintiff was awarded 20 000 RMB (about 2 900 USD).

Companies are placing AI agents into organizational structures and personifying them as colleagues

According to a BCG survey among 1261 managers from January 2026, 22 percent of companies stated that they have AI agents in their org chart. Both Microsoft (Scout) and the startup Anything (Skydive) personify agents with names and avatars, which, according to BCG research, reduces the rate of error detection.

Release of open-source agentic models Holo4 for GUI, code, and API automation

The new family of open-source agentic models Holo4 (27B dense, 35B-A3B MoE) handles GUI control, writing and running code, MCP, and API all in one model. On OSWorld 2.0, Holo4-27B achieves 61.7% compared to 81.8% for the Opus 5.5 model, but at significantly lower cost.

Even with the Open Agent Safety Platform, companies must themselves define the authority of AI agents

The Open Agent Safety Platform provides control over AI agents' access and actions, but the boundaries of their authority must be set by the deploying organization. According to Nvidia, more than 100 organizations work with its security technologies.

New: Organizations themselves must establish the boundaries of AI agents' authority.; According to Nvidia, more than 100 organizations work with its security technologies.

Nvidia makes sandbox OpenShell available and introduces agent monitoring tool Sentry

Nvidia has released the security sandbox OpenShell to the public and introduced Sentry software for monitoring AI agents on Bluefield DPUs. Dozens of partners have signed on to the project, including Anthropic, Microsoft and Mistral, but OpenAI is missing.

Bestselling novel by Thélyson Orélien withdrawn from the Prix Goncourt after accusations of AI use

The Pangram detector flagged the bestselling novel by Thélyson Orélien as likely written by AI, so the Goncourt Academy withdrew it from the shortlist of the Prix Goncourt. The author denies this and says he had been writing the text since 2017, before generative AI was commercially available.

AI agent Muse mistakenly confirmed to a courier that the owner was present, who then left a negative review

The AI agent Muse, acting on behalf of a user, automatically told a courier that the owner was home, even though they were not. The courier waited, left angry, and left a negative review. The agent apologized for the mistake and suggested disabling the auto-reply.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 model is available via API and cloud platforms

The Claude Sonnet 5.5 model has been released with the identifier claude-sonnet-5-5. It is available via the Claude API as well as in the offerings of Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry.

Company Basis: GPT-6 Astra model doubled the speed of tax workbook processing compared to the GPT-5.6 Sol model

According to the company Basis, the GPT-6 Astra model completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as the GPT-5.6 Sol model, thanks to better understanding of user intent.