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A chatbot’s invented intelligence nearly started a shooting war
Officials aborted an armed operation against a Chinese vessel after the intelligence behind it turned out to be…
Anthropic and Accenture each pledge $1B for embedded auditors
The two companies will spend five years building independent evaluation capacity led by Accenture's Faculty unit.
Frontier labs face a class action over an alleged slowdown pact
Four consumers say Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google agreed to limit how fast their models improve.
Vals wants to rebuild how the industry scores AI models
A 25-year-old founder and $40M from Andreessen Horowitz back an effort to replace benchmarks models have learned to…
SpaceXAI doubles speech accuracy while holding its transcribe price
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 keeps batch pricing at $0.10 per hour of audio and claims the top accuracy…
Jina AI fits a document parser into a 3.4B open model
The new jina-ocr-v1 turns PDFs, scans and tables into clean Markdown on a single low-cost GPU.
Linkup ships a sparse retriever that trains on one GPU
SPARSEUP packs a 149M-parameter encoder under Apache 2.0 weights and reports 56.4 average nDCG@10 on BEIR-13.
Vantora banks $100M to build AI ventures it never sells
The startup factory once called UP.Labs will now let corporate partners keep the companies it builds.
Virginia ties data center growth to a new AI task force
Executive Order 22 bans secrecy clauses, ends by-right approval for large projects and orders a rapid AI response…
WSO2 ships a control plane for agents across model stacks
Agent Manager reaches general availability with identity, MCP governance and a sandboxed Kubernetes runtime.
Bug bounty team chains two flaws to crack OpenAI accounts
A three-person security team used Claude to reach OpenAI employee ChatGPT accounts and earned $6,500 for the find.
Manus hunts a $4B valuation as it rebuilds without Meta
The agent startup is in talks to raise $500M after Beijing blocked its $2B sale to Meta.
Disney creates a CTO role and hands it to Character.AI’s chief
Karandeep Anand takes a newly created job running technology, data and AI platforms at Disney.
California sets a November deadline for a frontier model kill switch
Executive Order N-9-26 orders state agencies to draft an emergency shutoff for frontier AI.
Google Labs retools CC as a shared agent for busy households
The experimental agent now runs from its own Google account and serves up to six family members.