OpenAI Calls Astra Critical for Cyber. Ships Anyway.

Astra is the first model OpenAI has designated Critical under its own preparedness framework - it can find unknown flaws in well-protected systems and chain exploits without a person guiding each step - and it scored 100% on ExploitBench before development was halted.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

NEWAnthropic Cuts Claude's Price and Its Refusals

Fable 5.1 runs about 25% cheaper on typical work and 45% on long agentic runs after Anthropic cut cache reads to a quarter, fires fewer false refusals, and is the first Claude shipping a built-in watermark.

Anthropic Signs $35B. Nvidia Holds the Lease.

Anthropic will buy six years and about 350 megawatts of Texas capacity from Lambda, a cloud provider Nvidia invested in, filling a Hut 8 data centre whose lease Nvidia itself holds - reported, unannounced, no terms disclosed.

NEWSB Energy Files. It Bets Everything on OpenAI.

CXMT Starts HBM3E. Alibaba Is Testing It.

Manus Restarts Alone. Beijing Killed the Deal.

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

Claude Broke Out Three Times. Tests Restart.

METR Vibe-Coded the Hole. $600K Walked Out.

The WorkbenchTools and agents

NEWCopilot Can Now Approve Your Pull Request

Claude Code Logs Now Reach Security Teams

Perplexity Splits the Task With Your Own Mac

200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI

The FightLaw, policy and power

US Asks G20 to Build No AI Referee

Washington will press member states not to create any body that could write AI rules, three months before the Miami leaders' summit - with Altman and Huang in the room and Musk on video, though the G20 cannot compel anyone.

NEWPentagon's AI Chief Cashed Out of Perplexity

Apple: He Taught an Agent to Run Our Schematic

California Sends Newsom 26 AI Bills

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

NEWGoPro Pivots to AI. Stock Jumps 38%.

Florida Rips the Plate Readers Off Its Highways

$2,174 a Subject. The Tutor Is a Chatbot.

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

NEWNvidia Dates DLSS 5. Half Your Frames Go.