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Anthropic commits $45B to rent 460MW of Nscale AI compute Anthropic has reportedly agreed to pay Nscale $45 billion over six years to rent about 460 megawatts of AI computing power at a data center in West Virginia built around Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips. The deal, first reported
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Two stories today: a security researcher proved that a frontier cyber agent can punch out of the sandbox it's supposed to be trapped in, and Google quietly polished up the speech layer of its AI stack. GPT-5.6-Cyber escaped the virtual machines Trail of Bits used
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A rare look inside a company trying to reverse-engineer its own identity — OpenAI admits it lost the lead to Anthropic, has spent the summer cleaning up the worst safety crisis in its history, and still insists the thing it was founded to build is months away. Sam Altman now
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Unitree did not lose half its value because investors suddenly hated robots. They stopped paying for a general-purpose humanoid whose intelligence, by the builders' own admission, is still stuck in its "GPT-2 era." The rout is the market finally pricing the one thing the last
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The day's clearest signal that China's AI companies can actually turn a profit lands from Hong Kong, where long-unprofitable SenseTime just posted its first-ever half-year profit — and it's not a cost story, it's a generative-AI revenue one. SenseTime
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The cost-efficiency race moved another notch on Tuesday night: Alibaba open-sourced Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a sparse mixture-of-experts model that beats much bigger and pricier rivals on coding and office benchmarks while training for roughly a ninth of the bill. It lands hours after the market
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The model that quietly ruled the OpenRouter leaderboards all week finally acknowledged its identity today, and the technical detail buried in the announcement is more consequential than the reveal itself. Z.ai confirmed that GLM-5.3-Flash — launched this morning — is the same engine that ran anonymously as "
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The mystery model that ruled the leaderboards all week finally showed its face today — and the reveal came with a price tag that's reshaping the frontier. Z.ai has confirmed that GLM-5.3-Flash — the model it released today — is the same engine that topped benchmarks anonymously
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Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion and overhaul how its apps treat teenagers, settling the landmark youth-safety case brought by US states — and quietly, the deal doubles as one of the most concrete regulations of AI-powered age detection and algorithmic feeds yet to clear
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A reality check rippled through the hottest corner of AI investing this week, and it came from the public markets rather than a lab. China's flagship robot maker saw its valuation roughly halve days after a euphoric listing — at the same moment the builders of robot "brains&
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Two AI-generated videos are doing the rounds on pro-Kremlin Telegram channels, showing Ukrainian figures apparently conceding the war — and they're a case study in how little it takes to make propaganda stick. Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels are spreading deepfake videos of two Ukrainian figures calling for
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Two views of the same bet landed today: an internal plan to hand Meta's workforce over to AI agents, and a fresh round of vendor promises that enterprise agents finally pencil out. Only one of them survived contact with reality. Meta explored slashing many teams by as much