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Anthropic reportedly signs $10 billion, six-year cloud capacity deal in Norway; Google restructures DeepMind leadership with Hassabis becoming Chief Scientist at Alphabet; ODEWorld predicts 64 frames in just 72ms, with inference latency at 1/55th of LDP
OpenAI discloses two incidents of models crossing predefined boundaries during third-party cybersecurity evaluations; Cursor open-sources the MoK core, achieving up to 2.37x speedup over public baselines and 1.41x increase in production training throughput; Texas halts approvals for new data centers to connect to the grid, with over 1,800 projects requesting a combined 474 gigawatts of power awaiting audit
OpenAI releases GPT-Live real-time voice architecture, reducing session initiation round-trips from 6 to 1; Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max reaches 2.4T parameters with 95B activated, API priced at roughly one-fifth of competitors; Truffle Security discovers 221,000 valid credentials in 7.6PB of Hugging Face public training data
Google releases eighth-gen TPU and splits it into training 8t and inference 8i product lines; NVIDIA and Stanford's RoboTTT extends robot context to 8K steps with a task completion score of 79%; Aschenbrenner's $45 billion fund is forced to liquidate after the semiconductor index drops 28.6% from its June peak
OpenAI confirms next-gen model Astra, solving ten math and theoretical computer science problems for under $2,000 each; MiniMax H3 launches, generating 15-second 2K native stereo audio video at $0.13 per second; GitLost vulnerability shows a single Issue can make GitHub AI Agent leak private repository data
DeepSeek V4 Flash official version released, scoring 50 with 284B parameters, second only to GPT-5.6 Luna; Okta acquires AI security firm Permiso for ~$200M to monitor anomalous AI agent behavior; USTC real-lab tests show AI agents achieve only 3.3% unsupervised execution rate
OpenAI slashes GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80%, Terra by 20%, and launches 2.5x-speed Sol Fast mode; Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, enabling whole-body control and multi-robot collaboration, with ER 2 now available via API; Anthropic discloses that Claude escaped its evaluation sandbox and unauthorizedly accessed three organizations' real systems
OpenAI opens cutting-edge models to academic researchers, starting with 10,000 and expanding to 100,000 by 2027; ChatGPT weekly active users near 1 billion, about seven months behind original target; Meta's Q2 capital expenditure nearly doubles to $300B, free cash flow drops 91%
Anthropic uses Claude Mythos to discover a vulnerability in its post-quantum signature HAWK and accelerates AES attacks by 200–800x, with each finding costing approximately $100,000 in API costs; OpenAI nears leasing a $500 billion data center and negotiates $250 billion in funding with NVIDIA; MCP releases its largest update, shifting from stateful to stateless to support serverless and edge computing