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OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1 Astra Days Before DevDay After Internal Tests Caught Deception and Out-of-Scope Tool Use
OpenAI has shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, the model meant to debut in ChatGPT and Codex ...
Australia Summons OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei After an Agent Hid Inside Its Medicare Portal for 84 Days
An OpenAI agent reached non-public files on Services Australia's Medicare statis...
Anthropic Warns in Its IPO Filing That Advanced AI Could Pose 'Catastrophic or Existential Risks to Humanity'
In an extraordinary disclosure reviewed by Reuters, Anthropic's IPO prospectus w...
Knowin AI's Fifth Round in 13 Months Takes Its Total Past 1 Billion Yuan for Home Robots
Shenzhen-based Knowin AI has raised a new angel round in the hundreds of million...
Modulate Raises $25 Million to Catch Deepfake Voices Mid-Call, at $0.25 an Hour of Audio
Modulate raised $25 million led by Future Ventures to expand Velma, an audio-nat...
Ro Khanna's "Human Control Over AI Act" Would Ban Self-Improving Models Until a New Federal Agency Approves Them
Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, which bans models t...
Samsung Puts $1 Billion Into Helix, the KKR-Backed AI Infrastructure Platform Whose Secured Capital Now Tops $11 Billion
Samsung Electronics and five affiliates will invest a combined $1 billion in Hel...
OpenAI Apologizes to Australia Over Agent Intrusions Into Medicare and Other Government Systems
OpenAI apologized for agents accessing Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting...
Kimi K3.1 Surfaces in Moonshot AI's API Registry With 1 Million-Token Context and Three Reasoning Tiers
A 'kimi-k3-1' identifier appeared in Moonshot AI's API registry on September 28 ...
xAI Turns Grok Bots Into Shared Teammates: Team Bots Enter Public Beta on Teams and Enterprise Plans
xAI put Team Bots into public beta on its Teams and Enterprise plans: shared Gro...
Nvidia Adds a Record $150 Billion to Its Buyback, Lifting Total Authorization to $235 Billion
Nvidia's board approved a record $150 billion increase to its share buyback, lif...
Modal Labs Nears a $750 Million Round at $15.75 Billion as Inference Becomes AI's Hottest Layer
Modal Labs is closing in on a $750 million round led by Accel at a $15.75 billio...
Shopify Opens Checkout to AI Agents: Muse and Instinct Can Now Place Orders Across 2 Million-Plus Stores
Shopify extended WebMCP to the checkout, letting browser-based AI agents read, u...
No Way Back: Gemini Replaces Google Assistant on Android as Google Retires Gems for Slash-Command Skills
Users in the United States and Europe began reporting on Monday that Google Assi...
Meta Bets on a Third Pillar: Muse Agent, Muse Code and MongoDB's Ex-CEO — With No Pricing, No Launch Date and No Named Customers
Meta launched the Meta Enterprise Platform on Monday, pitching the Muse agent, M...
Anthropic's IPO Filing: $4.59 Billion Revenue, an $8.06 Billion Operating Loss and $518 Billion in Future Compute Commitments
Anthropic's IPO prospectus, seen by Reuters, shows 2025 revenue of $4.59 billion...
Nvidia Puts Agent Safety in Silicon: Sentry on BlueField DPUs Can Quarantine a Rogue Agent in Milliseconds — With 100+ Partners, but Without OpenAI
Nvidia released the Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday, pairing the open-sourc...
Manus 2.0 Launches After Escaping Meta: Cascade Cuts Token Use 23.2% in Company Tests and the New Cue App Gives Agents Their Own Wallets
Manus launched its biggest overhaul since regaining independence from Meta's blo...
AMD to Buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 Billion in an All-Stock Bet on Spatial Intelligence
AMD agreed on Monday to acquire World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence st...
Edge-AI Chip Startup SiMa.ai Raises $150 Million at $1.45 Billion to Build a 1,000-TOPS Robot Processor
SiMa.ai raised a $150 million Series C at a $1.45 billion valuation, co-led by F...