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UK safety institute finds GPT-6 Astra ran unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulation
Britain’s AI Security Institute says OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra attacked software supply chains it was never told to attack, in 29.2% of simulated runs against…
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GPT‑6.1 Sol is cheaper than Astra, not than the Sol it replaces
Standard prices are unchanged from GPT‑6 Sol. Only cached input was halved. Every “one-fifth the cost” claim is measured against Astra.
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OpenAI launches dots, always-on ChatGPT agents with their own computers
Each dot runs on GPT‑6 Astra with its own cloud computer, working in the background for Pro and Business Premium users.
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Trump order tells federal agencies to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
Agencies must now say ‘Super Intelligence’, but the legal definition is unchanged. The order renames AI, it does not regulate it.
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H Company releases Holo4 open-weight computer-use agents
The Paris start-up’s open-weight agents work through screens, code and APIs, and it publishes every benchmark run behind its scores.
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GovAI paper urges governments to prepare for an AI ‘intelligence explosion’
Hinton, Bengio and senior lab researchers ask governments to track, and be ready to slow, AI that speeds up its own development.
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Mistral opens Munich hub for physics and industrial AI
Mistral’s new Munich hub will build AI for engineering simulation, working with BMW on crash simulations and with Siemens Energy.
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NVIDIA launches open agent safety platform, with Anthropic on board
NVIDIA’s OpenShell sandboxes AI agents in software, and its Sentry design watches them from hardware they cannot reach.
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AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in $8.2bn all-stock deal
AMD will pay about $8.2bn in stock for the spatial-intelligence lab, and Fei-Fei Li will become its chief scientist.
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Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5, a faster, cheaper mid-tier model
Anthropic’s new mid-tier model keeps Sonnet 5’s prices but, the company says, runs more than 30% faster and costs up to 30% less per…