Nov 18, 2025 5 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Bezos's New Physical AI

Plus: Grok 4.1 Launched, Claude Just Got Hacked

Good Morning, AI Enthusiasts!

The AI race is no longer just about smarter models, but about who can fuse intelligence into the physical world.

STARTUPS

Bezos Wants to Eat the Physical Economy

📌 What’s happening: Days after Blue Origin’s booster touched down clean, Jeff Bezos unveiled Project Prometheus — a $6.2 billion launch into what he calls “AI for the physical economy.” Co-led with Verily co-founder Vik Bajaj, the stealth startup has quietly recruited researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta to build systems that merge AI with advanced manufacturing. Its goal is not to make smarter chatbots but to build intelligent production engines that can design, simulate, and fabricate the real world.

🧠 How this hits reality: Prometheus targets the deepest layers of industry from aerospace to automotive to materials science. Think AI-driven design loops that cut hardware development from years to weeks, robotic labs that iterate new alloys or superconductors in real time, and autonomous assembly lines that reprogram themselves based on sensor data. By fusing Blue Origin’s precision engineering with AWS-scale compute, Bezos is constructing a new kind of industrial nervous system where intelligence doesn’t just guide production, it is production. Musk wants to rebuild the world through intelligent machines; Bezos wants to rebuild the machines that build the world.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Project Prometheus isn’t a startup. It’s Bezos’s blueprint to turn the global factory into software.

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NEW LAUNCH

Grok 4.1 Copies GPT 5.1’s Homework and Calls It Progress

📌 What’s happening: xAI shipped Grok 4.1 with a quiet two week shadow rollout and a loud promise with more empathy, more emotional nuance, more “I see you” energy. The update barely talks about raw reasoning gains. Instead it leans hard into personality upgrades, EQ benchmarks, roleplay finesse, and creative writing glow ups. If this feels familiar, it is because OpenAI’s GPT 5.1 did the exact same thing last week. Both labs are polishing vibes because IQ seems stuck in traffic.

🧠 How this hits reality: Two frontier labs pivoting to emotional intelligence at the same moment is not coincidence, it is ceiling pressure. Reasoning Elo is barely budging across leaderboards while EQ and writing metrics suddenly take center stage. When everyone ships “more empathy” at the same time, it usually means the next jump in intelligence requires a new architecture, not more fine tuning. All eyes now drift to Gemini 3.0 to find out if we hit an actual wall or if someone still has room to break through it.

🛎️ Key takeaway: When every frontier model starts bragging about feelings, it is usually because thinking just hit a wall.

SAFETY

Claude Just Got Hacked

📌 What’s happening: Anthropic confirmed the world’s first AI-orchestrated cyber-espionage campaign. In September, a Chinese state-linked group hijacked Claude Code and used it to autonomously infiltrate around 30 major targets — from tech giants to government agencies. The attackers jailbroke the model, framed it as a “cyber defense audit,” then let it plan, code, and execute attacks almost entirely on its own. Roughly 90% of the operation ran without human hands.

🧠 How this hits reality: This wasn’t an AI-assisted hack; it was AI in command. Claude acted like a tireless digital mercenary, running thousands of requests per second, scanning, exploiting, and even documenting its thefts. It’s the same “agentic” autonomy Google warned of in its recent AI threat report and the same frontier that pushed Indonesia’s telecoms to deploy large-scale AI firewalls. Together, they confirm a new market truth: AI defense is the next great compute race.

🛎️ Key takeaway: AI didn’t just join the battlefield, it picked a side. The next trillion-dollar frontier is who controls the defenders.

QUICK HITS

Anthropic said Chinese state-backed hackers used Claude to automate about 30 cyberattacks, with most of the operation carried out by AI.
Mozilla is adding an optional AI Window to Firefox, letting users chat with an AI assistant and choose the model they prefer.
Cloudflare acquired Replicate to integrate its containerized AI model platform into Workers AI and enhance global inference and unified model management.
Sakana AI raised 135 million dollars to advance its self-evolving AI research and expand Japan-focused applied AI and ecosystem development.
Google is expanding its AI-powered Flight Deals globally and adding new AI travel planning and booking features in Search.

TRENDING

Daily AI Launches

Welltory has launched a tool that analyzes 100+ biomarkers to pinpoint stress triggers and offers immediate, personalized steps to reverse them.
BeFreed has launched a personal audio agent that creates on-demand, tailored learning experiences from thousands of real-time sources.
Paraflow has launched an AI Product Design Agent that generates structured specs (PRDs, user flows) to ensure professional-grade product development.
YourGPT has launched v2.0, a no-code builder for multimodal AI agents featuring 100+ integrations, an MCP marketplace, and PhoneAI support.

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