Robot Breaks Half-Marathon Record, AI Meets White House

A humanoid robot built for Chinese smartphone maker Honor smashed the world record at a Beijing half-marathon, completing the 21km course in 50 minutes and 26 seconds. The White House held a productive meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a week after the AI firm released its Claude Mythos preview tool. Elsewhere, a British man pleaded guilty to hacking and stealing $8m in virtual currency, MIT scientists developed non-invasive blood sugar monitoring using light, and Apple is testing end-to-end encryption for iPhone-to-Android messages, expected in a future iOS release.