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Google is folding DeepMind's AI-safety work into its corporate policy arm, the clearest sign yet that the lab's responsible-AI function is being absorbed into the company's wider machine. It's the kind of reorganization safety researchers have long worried about — and
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The AI build-out has a new eye-watering milestone: Nvidia just turned in a record quarter and told Wall Street the next one could be even bigger — the clearest signal yet that the compute arms race shows no sign of slowing. Nvidia posted a record $96.2 billion in
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The long-simmering question about whether generative AI will eat the software incumbents is getting its clearest answer yet: the incumbents are racing to put the models inside their own products. Salesforce and Anthropic on Wednesday deepened their alliance, and the enterprise giant's results show just how much
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Two Google model releases dominate the AI news cycle this afternoon — neither a weight-dump spectacle, both quietly aimed at making AI's messier inputs tractable. One turns raw audio into clean, structured text; the other turns a stream of glucose readings into transferable medical insight. Here's
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The Chinese model labs' financial scoreboard keeps shifting — and MiniMax just posted the loudest growth number yet. Its first-half 2026 report lands the same week DeepSeek's leaked books and SenseTime's first-ever profit redrew expectations for how this generation of frontier AI actually makes
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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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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
The Frontier
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
The Frontier
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