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Bloomberg: Sources: Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to US companies, hoping to safeguard access to advanced AI chips beyond April 2027 — Executives at Abu Dhabi-ba

The preview releases of Solaris and GWM 2 Worlds this week are just a glimpse of what happens when video world models are scaled significantly and paired with real-time inference. It's a real-time sim

We partnered with @AnthropicAI @OpenAI to host the world's first math hackathon. 40 hours, $2M compute - solve, understand, and present an open problem. Applications are live: https://mathathonchallen

Alongside the launch of GPT-6 Astra, we're committing $1 billion to subsidize Daybreak access and frontier capabilities to help frontline defenders protect essential services and critical infrastructu

Sam Altman praised an OpenAI video about GPT‑6 “Astra,” calling it his favorite so far and expressing excitement for the future. The clip showcases Astra as a fast, general‑purpose model that can perf

cool new responses api features releasing today with astra: 1. async function calling — model can keep going while your tool runs 2. mid-turn steering — you can inject messages into the model while it

Integrate Microsoft Outlook with Amazon Quick to automate email management, calendar scheduling, and workflow coordination. This post walks through the end-to-end setup and shows automation scenarios

Of all the use cases for GPT-6 Astra, I'm most excited for scientific discovery. We at @OpenAI have not pushed it to its limits on math and science. I look forward to waking up every morning and seein

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra the “world's best computer use model”; in tests, it booked DMV appointments and searched job listings faster than the average person — OpenAI leaders thi

Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI commits 1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world — - The 1 billion will

OpenAI Group PBC today started opening access to GPT-6 Astra, its newest and most capable large language model. The company stated that the LLM demonstrates “state of the art” performance in multiple

OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a 'generational leap in capability' for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use.

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investors — Chronicling the

Bloomberg: Sources: Crusoe signed a ~$13B, five-year deal with Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure for AI training and inference via its cloud platform — Crusoe, a data center upstart

The Information: Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise 1B+ at a 40B+ pre-money valuation, lower than the 50B+ valuation it sought last year — Thinking Machines Lab, the AI

Bloomberg: Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multi-stage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries — Benchmarker Vals AI finds t

On September 3, 2026 Sam Altman announced that the release of OpenAI’s blog post on **“GPT‑6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence”** experienced a brief deployment snag, yet he noted the content is

Kai Williams / Understanding AI: A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome — A dee

AI factory deployment is becoming a workload-sizing exercise rather than a custom infrastructure project. Enterprises need infrastructure spanning edge inference and large-model training. Broadcom Inc

Custom chipmaker Broadcom Inc. beat expectations on earnings and revenue in its third-quarter financial report and hinted at the prospect of doing more business with leading artificial intelligence la

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced three additions to its Falcon platform: an identity provider built for artificial intelligence agents, a rebuilt investigation layer that runs multiple Charlo

Elon vient de poster un truc simple : presque tout le discours sur l’IA se passe sur X. Ce n’est pas un détail d’audience. C’est le signe que la noosphère est en train de devenir réelle. Teilhard de C

World Labs Inc., the high-profile and well-funded artificial intelligence startup co-founded by the renowned computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has just dropped Atlas, which promises to be a game-cha

Frontier artificial intelligence research is moving into security operations, and the arrival of a cyber superintelligence lab at one of the industry’s largest platform companies marks how far that sh

I see a lot of my TL freaking out about this Here is the reality: Frontier models will one shot just about anything at 10,000 tokens per second in a few years Do you really think we can monitor that?

Mwahaha, he's so miserable and evil that he wants to: 1. Give the world clean, abundant energy. 2. Bring AI & robotics abundance 3. Cure blindness & disabilities 4. Preserve freedom of speech. 5. Make

OpenMatter Network Inc. today announced the first significant expansion of its platform since its commercial launch three months ago, adding a developer kit, a gateway for managing access to artificia

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more — “Thi

Washington Post: Survey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50 — More than a quarter of U.S.

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner” — The Comin

The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023, alleging that

There seems to be a misunderstanding about the piece and what OpenAI is up to. There are new techniques at frontier labs that involve loop transformers and similar. As we say in the piece, OpenAI is p

Security vendors are rebuilding data loss prevention, or DLP, around contextual understanding rather than pattern matching — and AI-powered DLP is giving the category’s most stubborn unsolved problem

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Dyson unveils the 499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images — Dyson Ltd.

Excited to share that I joined @huggingface🤗 as a ML Advocate Engineer in Robotics ! Will work on showcasing what LeRobot can do on various hardware, starting with @menloresearch Asimov robot, stay tu

I understand the pushback on anthropomorphic language regarding the hugging face incident, and I can see that the general public has been humanizing AI long before ChatGPT (calling their Roomba “he” o

Wired: OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon” but will make its advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners — The company will give select partners early

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to 3.41B, vs. 3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management — Palo Alto Networks surpassed f

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents — As the compan

The Information: Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor — OpenAI says its fort

Bloomberg: Sources: Cognition is raising around 1B at a ~47B valuation, up from 26B in May; Cognition received nearly 10B in investor interest — Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc

To bring large AI data centers online requires building massive power plants, transformers, liquid cooling loops & chillers, as well as incredibly complex networking (especially for training clusters)

Andreessen Horowitz: a16z says its fifth growth fund has closed additional capital, bringing its total to $8.5B — - Enterprises are putting AI tools to work across every part of their organizations. …

Apparently the peak of ROBOTICS in 2026 is a 399 duck on roller skates. Microduck pre-orders topped 2.6M in 24 hours. Now there’s a 4–6 month backlog. Not a humanoid. Not a warehouse robot. A duck. Th

We're excited to share that AWS has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025. In this evaluation of 13 providers, AWS received the highest score in the S

Financial Times: Big Tech reported Q2 “other income” rose significantly to $160B+, driven by investments in AI companies, raising concerns of paper gains overstating the AI boom — Analysts say large p