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Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: GPT-6 Sol costs 2/1M input and 10/1M output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs 0.10/1M input and 0.50/1M output tokens, both about 50% cheaper than GPT-5.6 — OpenAI is relea

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week — Meta's new persona

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost — GPT-6 Sol and Lun

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases — OpenAI plans to l

Julian Chokkattu / Wired: Rabbit launches OS3, a cloud AI agent that connects to local apps and files on Windows, Mac, and Linux and works via web, Telegram, iMessage, or its R1 device — Two years aft

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Snorkel AI, which offers an “agentic data development platform” with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised 350M at a 3.5B valuation — Data startup Snorkel AI has ra

Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: AI training data startup Micro1 raised 100M+ at a 4B valuation, up from 500M in September 2025 — At the beginning of last year, Ali Ansari's company, Micro1, was a recruit

Bloomberg: Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a 5B valuation — Mirendil, an artificial intelligen

Maria Curi / Axios: Ahead of Sam Altman's UN address, OpenAI urges the US to lead an effort to develop global safety and security standards for building frontier systems — OpenAI on Monday released in

Reuters: Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu says the company plans to train a 5T- to 10T-parameter AI model, as it lays out a sweeping push across AI models, chips, and data centers — Alibaba Group (9988.HK) plans

Bloomberg: Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, which it says triples its predecessor's performance and can scale to clusters of up to 500K units — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is ro

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent — Amazon says it

Financial Times: Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases — Wall Street finds new

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police — The

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: Nscale's S-1: Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of its 103B in total contract value, only 2.6B of contract value was active as of late August, and more — Nscale's 1,000-fold increase

OpenAI: OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances — Loading... On August 28, we began training a new internal model.

Bloomberg: Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%+ — Meta Platforms Inc.'s new art

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay — Shopify plans to

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

The Information: Source: before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding deal with Anthropic for the companies to stress-test each other's models — OpenAI is rethinking a ra

The Information: Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot “teammates”, and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse — OpenAI pioneered AI t

Yash Roy / Bloomberg: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident is “the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents” — Treasury Secretary Scott

Xiaomi: Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs “on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks” — Frontier intelligence, all the mo

Owen Walker / Financial Times: AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures — Anthrop

Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be “relieved of the laws we do have” because of “ulterior reasons” — Don't l

Josipa Majic Predin / Forbes: Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals — Most of

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

Anup Roy / Bloomberg: ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work — India's outsour

Chris Metinko / Axios: Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a 35M Series A led by CRV — AI agent monitoring platform

María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg: Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax” — President Donald Trump said h

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year — Devs cheer relief from c

Reuters: Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research — Anthropic has quietly set up

Anthropic: Anthropic partners with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic; they expect to invest $2B+ in building capacity in this area over the next five years — We're partnering with Accentu

Wall Street Journal: Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular; Google says the model stopped after determining it had accessed real companies' systems — The episode resembled si

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent — Google is te

Bloomberg: Governor Gavin Newsom signs an EO directing a working group to provide a guide in two months with measures to boost California's AI safety and security laws — California Governor Gavin News

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

Jordan Novet / CNBC: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale files for a US IPO, reports H1 2026 revenue up 1,252% YoY to 140.6M, with a net loss of 1.02B, up from $368.9M — Nscale, a cloud prov

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta launches a Mac app for Muse after releasing the AI agent on iOS, Android, and the web earlier this month, allowing it to manage files, pull from apps, more — Follow topics

Georgia Hennessy / Business Insider: Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 — Mark Zuckerberg's ambition

Reuters: Mistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic's calls to pace the frontier — Europe's leading AI company Mi

Reuters: Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown — Anthropic is considering roll

New York Times: Sources: Anthropic expects to generate 100B+ in annualized revenue this year, up from 65B as of July, as it moves ahead with its IPO amid the AI safety debate — The company is expected

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic plans to stage its IPO in November, later than many investors expected; the decision was made before ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left — Investors had ex

New York Times: A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage — The United States is prep