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Anthropic: Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon — Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-c

Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar; it had been targeting an October release — Model du

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it

Madison Mills / Axios: Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking — OpenAI, Anthrop

Deploy the publicly available Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base text-to-speech model from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to a fully managed, real-time endpoint, and clone a voice from a short reference clip. Cross

Robert Hart / The Verge: Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl — Researchers are te

Priyanka Salve / CNBC: VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma, whose customers include Warner Bros. and the NBA, raised 150M led by Indian PE firm Multiples at a 2B post-money valuation — Brahma AI, an Ind

Robert Hart / The Verge: Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab — It took near

NodeWright is an open‑source, Kubernetes‑native package manager that declaratively configures host operating systems on GPU clusters while preserving workloads; its operator cordons nodes, drains pend

Despite rampant worries about runaway artificial intelligence, the two big AI model makers aren’t yet slowing down: Anthropic PBC released Claude Opus 5.5 today and cut its price 20%, and minutes late

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the O

Artificial intelligence cloud provider CoreWeave Inc. today unveiled Remote Key Encryption, a service that encrypts customer data sitting on its infrastructure with keys the company itself never holds

U.K.-based cybersecurity company Darktrace Holdings Ltd. today made its SECURE AI offering generally available, bringing its behavioral detection approach to corporate use of artificial intelligence t

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: MiMo-V2.6-Pro ties Grok 4.7 (xHigh) and beats GLM-5.3 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, making it the benchmark's top-scoring open-weight model — That puts

Bloomberg: Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs — The $15.6 billion legal st

Hayden Field / The Verge: A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight — On a sunny July

Financial Times: Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of 278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from 36B this year to $350B in 2030 — AI start-up has projecte

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Anthropic says Claude “leads” 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and “collaborates” on 90%+, doing large chunks of work under close human direction — More than a

Artificial intelligence platforms are adopting AI watermarking—specifically Google’s open‑source SynthID‑Text—to meet new EU regulations, embedding a secret key that subtly changes word selection and

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training — Elon Musk's Sp

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a 1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least 150M — In 2025, Mark McQuade took a

Customer relationship management vendor HubSpot Inc. is using its annual Unbound conference in Boston today to unveil what it calls its most significant product release in years: a rebuilt CRM platfor

Industrial artificial intelligence startup Noetive formally launched today with 41 million in seed funding. Its software learns how a factory floor or a freight operation runs day to day, and the comp

System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system performance means more tokens generated, r

On a sweltering August evening in Silicon Valley, as the sun dropped and air conditioning loads spiked, Silicon Valley Power sent a signal to an AI factory to adjust its power consumption. Varun Sivar

Know everything. Do anything. That was the message NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang brought to Salesforce Dreamforce Tuesday, joining CEO Marc Benioff onstage in an appearance that coincided with t

OpenAI Group PBC has apparently bought smartphone camera software startup Glass Imaging Inc. for more than 300 million in a deal first reported today by The Wall Street Journal. Neither company has co

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections — Apple Inc.'s new a

Reuters: DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on its new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context — Chinese artificial intellige

NVIDIA’s BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR) accelerates biomolecular structure‑prediction models on GPUs while preserving the familiar PyTorch workflow by providing an end‑to‑end pipeline that handles

Kenneth Chang / New York Times: Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem — Trist

Tibo / @thsottiaux: OpenAI says it will pause new 200/month ChatGPT Pro subscriptions amid “unprecedented” Astra demand; existing accounts, other plans, and API are unaffected — To make sure our curre

Tool: .blend URL Viewer I'm continuing to have a lot of fun with GPT-6 Astra and Blender (see my TIL). As a big fan of the Imperial Fabergé Easter eggs, I've always thought it would be fun to make som

CUDA Toolkit 13.4 introduces Windows‑on‑Arm support and preview functional compatibility for the NVIDIA Rubin architecture (compute capability 107), enabling cross‑platform CUDA development on ARM sys

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of the AlloyDB Omni Red Hat RPM orchestrator, that brings production-ready security, resiliency, and low-downtime operations to PostgreSQL workload

The strongest argument I see for continuing to train much smarter models quickly is the need to build defensive systems against the dangers posed by other AI. [...] We will need powerful, aligned AI f

Moving Large Language Models (LLMs) from experimental prototypes into enterprise production exposes a critical truth: your infrastructure dictates both your performance ceilings and your unit economic

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex and in the API — Update: A day later, GPT-6 Astra is rolling out to Pro custom

GPT‑6 Astra is a lightweight, high‑performance OpenAI model that can be hired for under $6 an hour and outperforms rivals on tests such as FrontierMath (97.6%) and ARC‑AGI‑3 (99.9%). The authors burne

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, the UK, and Australia — HTC Corp. is rolling

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

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

Google: Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks — Our newest Gemini models deli

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

Pictet rolled out Claude Code and Cowork to about 700 people; Anthropic reports selected prototype and compliance-task time savings.

Direct2D has always been the biggest hurdle for Paint.NET on WINE, and it's clear that it will never be completed enough for Paint.NET's use. And I can't just 'disable' the use of Direct2D. So, instea