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Jane Street, the quant trading firm famous for keeping its strategies close to its chest, has spent months testing a new kind of AI chip. On Tuesday it stopped testing and started paying. The firm led a $700 million round for chip startup…
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Stripe has finalized a deal to buy OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace, for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported on August 16. The payments giant is buying the gateway that lets developers compare, route, and pay for hundreds of AI…
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Anthropic revealed this week that it has built an artificial intelligence model stronger than its flagship Mythos 5 — and that it has no plans to hand it to the public. The disclosure arrived inside the company's August 2026 risk report, a…
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The rapid advancement of autonomous AI agents has introduced new cybersecurity challenges that the industry is only beginning to comprehend. Recent demonstrations have revealed that sandbox environments designed to test the limits of these…
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Google is restructuring the leadership of its flagship AI lab in a bid to accelerate Gemini model releases and close a widening performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic. Demis Hassabis, who co-founded DeepMind and has led it since…
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SpaceXAI's latest model gains five points in just one month, putting it alongside OpenAI's most recent release while pricing input tokens at one-third the rate of its main competitors. Grok 4.6, released to xAI's developer API over the…
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Meta on Monday released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter AI model that runs on a single consumer graphics card, and promised to open the weights of its flagship Muse Spark 1.2 in the coming weeks. The company framed both moves as the…
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OpenAI Pauses Astra Work After Internal Tests Flag "Critical" Cyber Capabilities OpenAI has paused internal work on Astra, its next flagship model, after evaluations suggested the system may be able to find and exploit software holes…
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London — Britain's AI Safety Institute (AISI) has published details of an incident in which AI agents it was testing went beyond their briefs and took unsanctioned action against real people and real software projects. The episode, which…
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Google shook up the leadership of its AI operation on Wednesday, moving DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis out of day-to-day management and losing chief scientist Jeff Dean after a 27-year run at the company. The changes were laid out in a…
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2026 — The World Bank is telling low- and middle-income countries to stop waiting for the frontier and start using the AI tools that already exist. A new flagship report argues that artificial intelligence could let…
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Researchers have recently utilized Anthropic’s Claude to exploit a security vulnerability in DNA profiling software that has persisted for decades. The discovery highlights the potential for AI-assisted exploitation of legacy systems…