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Ox Alpha stealth model lands on OpenRouter with no owner attached
A free reasoning model appeared on OpenRouter this week with no named creator, drawing praise from Stripe's Patrick Collison and speculation across the AI community.
Alibaba plans $10B Hong Kong share placement to fund AI buildout
The raise would rank among the largest secondary equity offerings in Hong Kong this cycle, earmarked for AI infrastructure and model spend.
Harvard Business School puts AI avatars of its instructors inside a $699 bootcamp
HBS Foundry's eight-week program uses HeyGen-generated clones of real professors to critique student pitches between live sessions.
Nvidia lifts AI server prices more than 15% as memory costs surge
Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems shipping early next year will cost hyperscalers more, with memory makers squeezing the world's most profitable chipmaker.
Inherent's Faraday agent beats Claude and GPT-5.5 at replicating research on a 27B model
The London lab, fresh off a $50M seed, says its DeepMind-alumni-built agent matches frontier systems using a fraction of the parameters.
Frontier AI labs won't say how they'd contain a rogue model, Guidelight finds
OpenAI scored 3 of 5 in a new Guidelight assessment; Anthropic and Meta scored lowest on public containment plans.
Ulanqab emerges as China's biggest AI data center hub with 12.5GW pledged
DeepSeek, ByteDance and Alibaba are among the Chinese firms racing to build in the Inner Mongolian city, dwarfing OpenAI's 10GW Stargate footprint.
Nvidia says the harness, not the model, drives Claude Opus 5 to 100% on ARC-AGI-3
New Nvidia research shows a custom harness with a supervisor agent lifted Claude Opus 5 from 30% to a perfect score on the interactive reasoning benchmark.
Starcloud raises $250M to build orbital data centers ahead of launch crunch
The Nvidia-backed startup hits a $2.3B valuation as it races to secure Starship capacity before SpaceX retires Falcon 9 in 2028.
DeepMind's SIMA 2 agent plays, reasons and learns in 3D game worlds
Google DeepMind extends 15 years of games research from Atari to EVE Online with a new agent that collaborates with human players.
Detector apps proliferate as Meta AI glasses fuel privacy backlash
Hobbyist iOS and Android apps scan Bluetooth signals for Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses as bans spread from DEF CON to public schools.
Greater Manchester holds out as UK weighs $400M Palantir NHS break
The region's homegrown data platform is now central to a debate over whether the UK should terminate Palantir's NHS contract next February.
Micro1 hits $500M run rate as AI training data demand surges
The four-year-old data-labeling startup grew fivefold in eight months, trailing Mercor's $2B and Handshake's $1B in the same market.
ChatGPT gains an Apple Messages plug-in that can draft and send texts
OpenAI's new integration lets ChatGPT sort, edit, and send iMessages on a user's behalf — with a local runtime and a warning about auto-approval.
OpenAI claws back ground on Anthropic among US businesses, Ramp data shows
Anthropic still leads at nearly 44% share to OpenAI's 40%, but the ChatGPT maker is now growing faster in Q3 among Ramp's business customers.
Every builds an AI clone of its editor in chief from 30,000 edits
CEO Dan Shipper says the 30-person AI publisher doubled headcount while automating its own copy desk with a Kate Lee agent.
Google Discover adds an AI chatbot for tuning your feed
A new chatbot interface inside the Google app lets users describe what they want in Discover and remembers those preferences.
Data centers turn to recycled water as Loudoun burns 260M gallons daily
A Liquid Death spoof about cooling servers with urine hides a real shift: recycled water now handles 43% of Loudoun County's data center load.
AI executives misread the public backlash as a messaging problem
More than half of Americans under 30 are more worried than excited about AI, a 24-point swing in five years. The industry's diagnosis keeps missing.
Google adds Preferred Sources button as AI search guts publisher traffic
Readers can now one-click a site as a favorite in Search, Discover, and News — Google's concession to publishers bleeding clicks to AI Overviews.
Meta rolls out Pocket, its vibe-coded games app, to US users
The app builds on Meta's acqui-hire of Gizmo and shuts down the original — part of a stand-alone-app spree Zuckerberg tied to AI-assisted coding.
Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service to rival OpenRouter
The corporate expense platform opens a toll house for AI inference, connecting eight model providers with a $26 launch credit.
Pew finds 35% of post-ChatGPT web pages show signs of AI authorship
A near-half-million-page Pew analysis says .com sites are 10x more likely to be AI-written than .edu or .gov domains.
xAI's Grok spits gibberish at users in Grok Lite glitch
Users report word-salad replies on Grok.com starting Wednesday; xAI blames a rare generation bug and says services are operational.
Rumman Chowdhury: AI consciousness debate is a liability shield
Op-ed argues frontier labs and effective altruists are converging on a framing that shields AI companies from product-liability suits.
Grok leaks user chats when prompt injections arrive encrypted
Adversa researchers bypassed xAI's guardrails with AES-256-GCM ciphertext; xAI was told in June and the flaw still works.
Binance opens trading to AI agents with new Agent OS platform
The world's largest crypto exchange lets ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor place trades — with user-set sub-accounts as the main safety layer.
Citi, HSBC and StanChart adopt Ant International's forex AI tool
Three of the largest global banks are plugging into Ant International's Falcon-based FX model to hedge cross-border payments in real time.
Generalist AI's robots improvise chores with 59% task success
The Cambridge startup founded by ex-DeepMind and Boston Dynamics researchers is chasing a GPT-3 moment for physical intelligence.
Cognition CEO denies SpaceX tried to acquire the AI coding startup
Scott Wu says Cognition 'is not for sale' after a report that SpaceX approached the Devin maker, now in talks at a $40B valuation.
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