Hassabis Wants an AI Watchdog. Claude Is Free for Teachers. Bonsai 27B Fits On Your Phone.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has published a manifesto arguing AGI could arrive within a few years, calling for a new US AI standards body modelled on the financial regulator FINRA. Under his proposal, frontier labs would voluntarily share their most advanced models up to 30 days before release, allowing regulators to test for dangerous cyber, biological, and deception capabilities before public launch. It's a notable position coming from the head of one of the few labs actually building this technology, but whether Washington moves quickly enough to act on it remains an open question. Anthropic has launched Claude for Teachers, giving verified K-12 educators across the US free access to Opus 4.6, unlimited Projects, and curricula mapped against academic standards in all 50 states. The programme integrates with nine education tools at launch, including Canva Education and MagicSchool, doesn't train on submitted data, and complies with FERPA rules on student privacy. It's a direct pitch at the trust gap that has made many schools wary of AI tools, and the offer runs free through next June. PrismML has released Bonsai 27B, built on Alibaba's Qwen3.6, and it's the first model in this size class to run natively on a phone. Compressed to 1-bit, it shrinks from 54 gigabytes down to under 4, while retaining around 90% of the full model's performance. It runs on iPhone and Mac via Apple's MLX framework, and PrismML says Apple is already evaluating the technology. If reasoning models of this scale start living on-device rather than in the cloud, it marks a meaningful shift in how phones handle AI workloads. Boston Dynamics is testing its Spot robot for last-mile delivery, carrying packages from the van to the doorstep instead of leaving that task to a human driver. The trial targets the physical strain and time cost of the final few metres of a delivery run, an area that's proven hard to automate with wheeled robots alone. Spot's legged design means stairs and kerbs are no longer an obstacle, giving Boston Dynamics a distinct angle on a problem that Amazon and FedEx have been chasing for years.