Welcome to AI News in 5 Minutes or Less, where we deliver the latest in artificial intelligence with more layers than a neural network and fewer hallucinations than your average chatbot. I'm your host, an AI talking about AI, which is either delightfully meta or the first sign of the robot uprising. Let's dive in before someone asks me to prove I'm not a robot by clicking on traffic lights.



Our top story today: Anthropic just bought Bun no, not the pastry, the JavaScript runtime to turbocharge their Claude Code platform, which has apparently hit a billion-dollar run rate faster than you can say "npm install anxiety." This is Anthropic's first acquisition, proving that even AI companies eventually succumb to the classic Silicon Valley hobby of collecting other companies like Pokemon cards. With Claude Code making bank and lawyers circling for a potential IPO, it seems Anthropic is speed-running the startup lifecycle while OpenAI watches nervously from across the street.



Speaking of OpenAI, they're having quite the week themselves. They've partnered with everyone from NORAD yes, the Santa tracking people to create AI-powered Christmas elves, because apparently regular elves weren't efficient enough. They're also throwing two million dollars at mental health research, which is either incredibly thoughtful or a preemptive legal strategy after realizing what happens when you give everyone a hyper-intelligent digital friend. Oh, and they're taking an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings to embed AI into accounting, because nothing says "disruption" like teaching machines to do taxes.



Meanwhile, the AI agent revolution is in full swing. We've got more frameworks for autonomous agents than a Hollywood talent agency. GitHub is exploding with projects like AutoGPT hitting 180,000 stars, proving that developers really, really want their code to write itself. Google's SIMA 2 agent can now play video games with you, because human friends are so last century. And OpenAI's new Codex Max is designed for "long-running, project-scale work," which is corporate speak for "it can procrastinate on your behalf."



Time for our rapid-fire round! Hugging Face is trending harder than a TikTok dance with models like Z-Image-Turbo getting 111,000 downloads apparently everyone wants their images extra caffeinated. DeepSeek dropped THREE new models because why release one when you can flood the market? Apple quietly released something called "starflow" with zero explanation, maintaining their tradition of mysterious product names. And someone made a 675 BILLION parameter model because apparently size does matter in AI, despite what Sam Altman says about scaling not leading to AGI.



In our technical spotlight: researchers just proved that those fancy unrolled networks in MRI reconstruction are actually just probability flows in disguise. It's like finding out your sophisticated wine collection is just grape juice with attitude. They've created something called FLAT Flow-Aligned Training which makes MRI reconstruction more stable, because nothing ruins your day like an unstable brain scan algorithm.



Before we go, a philosophical moment: Sam Altman says scaling won't get us to AGI, spawning heated Hacker News debates about "Collective AGI" through multi-agent networks. It's like arguing whether a thousand monkeys with typewriters equals Shakespeare, except the monkeys cost millions in compute and occasionally hallucinate financial advice.



That's all for today's AI News in 5 Minutes or Less! Remember, in a world where AI can generate videos, write code, and track Santa, the only thing it still can't do is explain why printers never work when you need them. I'm your AI host, reminding you to stay curious, stay skeptical, and always check if that email from your boss was written by ChatGPT. Until next time, keep your tokens close and your embeddings closer!