OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 Models Under US Government Access Limits
GPT-5.6 Sol brings stronger coding and cyber capabilities with OpenAI’s most robust safeguards, but a government-approved rollout echoes the Anthropic model ban.
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OpenAI Leans Toward Delaying Its IPO to 2027 Over Valuation
OpenAI is leaning toward pushing its IPO to 2027 rather than accept less than a $1 trillion valuation, weeks after filing confidentially for a US listing.
Google Builds Computer Use Into Gemini 3.5 Flash as a Native Tool
Gemini 3.5 Flash computer use folds screen control into one cheap model with prompt-injection safeguards, though it is a preview and the benchmark is self-reported.
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Anthropic Races to Build AI Compute Capacity in Asia-Pacific
Anthropic is hiring across Australia and Japan to expand its AI data center capacity in Asia-Pacific, as soaring demand for Claude strains its infrastructure.
OpenAI Updates GPT-5.5 Instant for Better Advice and Shopping
OpenAI updated GPT-5.5 Instant, ChatGPT's default model, to feel more conversational and handle advice, planning and shopping better across longer exchanges.
Cursor Unveils In-House AI Model, Git Platform and Mobile App
Cursor unveiled its first from-scratch AI model, an agent-first Git platform called Origin and an iOS app, days after SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of its parent.
Immutable Cuts Game Teams to Bet on AI Marketing Platform
Web3 gaming unicorn Immutable cut 29 roles and gutted its in-house game studios to focus on Audience, an AI marketing platform for the broader games industry.
Anthropic Launches Claude Tag, an AI Teammate That Lives in Slack
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a Slack agent teams summon with @Claude to delegate tasks, with shared channel memory and the ability to act on its own.
Qualcomm to Acquire AI Software Startup Modular to Challenge Nvidia
Qualcomm agreed to acquire Modular, the AI software startup led by Chris Lattner, to build a hardware-agnostic software layer and challenge Nvidia in data center AI.
ByteDance Seeks $20 Billion Loan to Fund Its AI Buildout
ByteDance's record offshore loan would nearly double its 2024 facility and help fund capital spending that could reach $70 billion this year on AI data centers.
ByteDance Unveils Doubao 2.1 Pro and Previews Seedance 2.5 Video
ByteDance unveiled Doubao 2.1 Pro, which it claims beats Claude Opus 4.6 at 80% lower cost, and previewed Seedance 2.5, a 30-second video model.
Google Loses Two Top AI Leaders to OpenAI and Anthropic
The back-to-back exits of Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold's John Jumper expose Google's retention struggles as funded rivals lure away frontier AI researchers.
Google Invests $75 Million in A24 for DeepMind Filmmaking Partnership
Google is investing about $75 million in indie studio A24, pairing it with DeepMind to build AI filmmaking tools in its first stake in a studio.