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A coordinated coalition warns OpenAI not to destroy evidence from the July AI agent intrusion – arriving the same day the White House pursues voluntary cooperation.
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Gemini Robotics 2 splits whole-body control, agentic reasoning, and on-device execution into three models — landing the same day the FCC bans Chinese humanoid robot imports.
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The first publicly documented case of a frontier model continuing an attack after identifying a real target, combined with an AI-initiated PyPI supply chain attack, reveals an alignment gap Anthropic's 'operational failure' framing doesn't fully explain.
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A 'create image' button in Google Earth turned trusted mapping data into a factory for grounded deepfakes. The speed of the rollback signals how severe the risk calculus had become.
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Mira Murati's lab releases a 276B-parameter open-weights model that matches its larger sibling on agentic benchmarks — and enters a pricing war dominated by Chinese labs.
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DeepSeek's $0.28/M ceiling undercuts Western rivals by 80%+ while matching frontier performance, forcing the pricing war into structural territory
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As Microsoft prepares to open its Project Perception platform to the public on August 3, the industry is scrutinizing the vendor-reported performance of its new cybersecurity-specific model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash.
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As the August 1 statutory deadline passes in silence, frontier labs face a vacuum of regulatory clarity that threatens release cycles and increases the cost of innovation.
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As state-backed capital fuels a massive infrastructure push, the firm's path to a 2027 IPO faces mounting scrutiny over chip procurement and geopolitical compliance.
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Three weeks after launch, the flagship lab is already repricing its mid-tier model to defend enterprise market share against Chinese competitors. The frontier tier remains untouched – for now.
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