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OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Pauses Scaling Over Safety
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Wednesday, calling it the model that likely marks the start of artificial generalized intelligence, the company's stated goal of building systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.
OpenAI Severs Billion-Dollar Customer Over Musk Ties
OpenAI walked away from more than $1 billion in annual revenue last Friday, and it did so over a business relationship with Elon Musk.
Nvidia's New Tool Links Idle Home Computers Into Personal AI Data Centers
Nvidia thinks the laptop gathering dust on your desk and the gaming PC that only wakes up on weekends could be doing something useful in between.
Google Updates AI Weather Model for More Accurate Precipitation Forecasts
Google rolled out a new version of its AI weather model on Wednesday, and the company says it's the sharpest one yet.
Microsoft AI's MAI-Transcribe-2 Undercuts Rivals on Price and Speed
Microsoft AI put a number on the table Thursday that's hard to ignore: 10 cents per hour of audio for MAI-Transcribe-2, its newest speech-recognition model. Five months ago, the company's first model in this line cost $0.36 an hour.
Hut 8 building 350MW Texas data center for Anthropic's Claude AI
Anthropic has agreed to pay Lambda $35 billion for cloud computing capacity, according to a Reuters report citing an unnamed source.
Meta's Muse Voice Transcribe Costs USD 0.18/Hour, Handles 20+ Speakers
Meta Superintelligence Labs put a price tag on its new transcription model this week: $0.18 per hour of processed audio for Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time speech-to-text system built to handle streaming transcription, endpoint detection and...
OpenAI's New Reasoning Method Sparks AI Safety Concerns
OpenAI's forthcoming Astra model uses a reasoning method called "recurrent depth," according to a report from The Information published Tuesday.
HiddenLayer Raises USD 100M as Financial, Defense Clients Secure AI
HiddenLayer has raised $100 million in a new funding round, three years after closing a $50 million Series A that arrived at a moment when nobody could quite prove AI attacks were happening at scale. That question has answered itself.
OpenAI: Astra's 'Thinking' Becomes Harder for Humans to Monitor
OpenAI put a new label on Astra this week: "critical" cybersecurity risk, the highest tier in its own Preparedness Framework. No previous model has hit that mark.
World Labs' Atlas AI Generates 3D Worlds and 1440p Video From Photos
Fei-Sei Li's startup World Labs launched Atlas on Thursday, a single AI model that can generate, reconstruct, and simulate 3D scenes starting from just a handful of photos.
AI Confidence Gap Widens as Startup Spending Details Emerge
Anthropic broke the silence first. After weeks of both major labs prioritizing safety reviews over new releases, Claude Fable 5.1 landed this morning as a direct answer to complaints about its predecessor, Fable 5.
Anthropic's EFS Moves Customer Data to Client-Controlled Storage
Anthropic said this week it has built a way around a problem that has stalled enterprise AI contracts for months: the standoff between zero data retention and misuse detection.
CrowdStrike Trains AI on Private Threat Data Using NVIDIA Nemotron
CrowdStrike used NVIDIA's Nemotron open models as the base for a new defensive AI system, post-training them on its own threat data gathered from years of incident response and endpoint monitoring.
Anthropic's Claude 5.1 Model Cuts Costs Up to 45% for Agentic Work
Anthropic put out two new models this week, Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, and the pitch is built around a complaint the company says it kept hearing from customers: the previous generation cost too much to run for agentic work.
Narrower AI assistant, one filter close retrieval gap in UKASI test
Egiziago Cioffi built the assistant himself. As IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner in Milan, he wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI retrieval pipeline, and wired it into SharePoint.
AIR Raises USD 50M to Vet AI Agent Skills, Citing Unchecked 'Same Risk
AIR came out of stealth this week with $50 million in seed funding, split across two rounds that closed within weeks of each other. Sequoia led the first, a $10 million round, and Greenoaks led the second at $40 million, according to CEO Yair Saban.
Perplexity says it isn't using confidential data for post-training AI
Perplexity rolled out hybrid compute for Computer, its agentic AI platform, on Tuesday, giving a single agent the ability to split one task between cloud-based frontier models and smaller open-weight models running locally on Apple silicon Macs.
OpenClaw 2.0 Aims to Make AI Coding a 'Multiplayer' Experience for Teams
Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw hasn't dominated group chats the way it did in March 2026, when developers were passing agents to each other over Telegram and WhatsApp like a new toy.
Music Publishers Cite Anthropic Staff's Piracy Chat in Lawsuit
Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with book authors, announced earlier this year, was supposed to close the chapter on claims that the company pirated more than 7 million books to train Claude. Music publishers don't see it that way.
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