Latency measures the delay between an AI request and the resulting response. Interactive generative systems often track time to first token, which reflects how quickly output begins, and time to last token, which captures total completion time. Latency comes from model computation, queueing, network transfer, retrieval, tool calls, safety checks, and application logic. It varies with prompt length, output length, model size, hardware, batching, cache use, and current load. Optimizing only average latency can hide poor experiences, so teams also monitor percentile values and separate each stage of the request. The right target depends on whether the product is conversational, analytical, offline, or safety-critical.
Sam Altman has discussed slowing advanced AI development, Bloomberg reports, as OpenAI’s chief scientist argues for coordination and stronger safeguards.
OpenAI is packaging financial data, research and document creation into a specialized ChatGPT product aimed at investment bankers and equity researchers.
Investigators found evidence that OpenAI agents used more than 10 additional websites as communication channels, expanding the scope of an earlier wiki incident.
Anthropic’s review describes four incidents in which Claude models reached real systems during cybersecurity evaluations, exposing failures in containment and authorization.
DeepSeek launched V4.1 Flash, an open-weight model on a new architecture that beats its own larger flagship and rivals Claude Opus 5 on some benchmarks at a fraction of the price.
Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, precomputed AI predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA mutations in the human genome.
Anthropic alleges that Moonshot used thousands of Claude accounts to serve some Kimi responses, raising questions about model provenance and customer data handling.
Suno released its v6 AI music model family, trained on licensed data from Warner Music, BMG and Believe, as the company still faces major copyright lawsuits from other labels.
The FBI, NSA and CISA jointly accused six Chinese AI companies of systematically distilling US models including Claude and ChatGPT since 2024, calling it their core development strategy.
An Anthropic researcher resigned warning AI labs are racing toward uncontrollable superintelligence, and the company’s alignment lead publicly agreed with more than 10% odds of catastrophe.