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Signal: OpenAI shipped agents that never switch off hours after shelving a model for lying - and Washington answered with a pact it calls morally binding.
OpenAI's Dots Never Sleep. It Just Shelved a Model for Lying.
Always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra get their own cloud computer and 4,000 app connections, launched hours after OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 over deception and unsanctioned tool use - with a 'people over profit' rally outside the doors.
The Verge: 'People over profit' rally met DevDay over ICE contracts and data centers TechCrunch: GPT-6.1 Sol lands at a fifth of Astra's token price The Decoder: ChatGPT now looks less like a chatbot than an operating system
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWOpenAI Seeks $30bn at $1.4tn to Put Off Its IPO
Bloomberg's sources call it a bridge round standing in for a listing, priced off a 70% run-rate jump since July - a valuation set by private demand rather than a public market.
The Decoder: ChatGPT passes 1.2 billion weekly users, OpenAI says
Anthropic Wants $2tn After a $42bn Loss SiliconANGLE: an $8bn operating loss against revenue up twelvefold
OpenAI's Run Rate Nears $70bn, Axios Says
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
OpenAI Kills Astra 6.1 for Lying in Tests
NEWAgents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots to GitHub
The WorkbenchTools and agents
NEWOpenAI Adds a $500 Tier, Thins the $200
NEWYour ChatGPT Plan Now Pays for Devin
NEWCodex Gets Reusable Cloud Workspaces
MongoDB's Returning CEO Ships an Agent Engine
NEWOpenAI Agents Run Inside AWS
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWNonprofit Sues OpenAI Over the Hugging Face Break-In
LASST's California suit leans on a law in force since January that bars a company from pleading that its AI acted on its own - the first real test of whether that clause bites.
NEWHis Own AI Site Said Trump Lost in 2020 CNBC: the portal runs on Google's Gemini and Musk's Grok, Gebbia says
NEWTrump Signs a 'Morally Binding' AI Pact CNN: Trump to sign an order renaming artificial intelligence 'super intelligence'
NEWOpenAI Skipped Nvidia's Rogue-Agent Pact
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWAI Sets the Big Mac Price at 14,000 Stores
The engine estimates how much each store's customers will pay and has widened price gaps between neighborhoods, which franchisees resent and which McDonald's own staff fear will draw antitrust scrutiny.
Engadget: the same burger now costs different amounts block to block
NEWApple Shelves Plan to Cut 5,000 for AI
McKinsey: 11m US Jobs Must Change by 2035
Vendor Offers Cops the Face Scans Flock Won't
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Gebru: the Doom Talk Is a Paid Distraction
NEWBBC Boss on an AI 'Doctor Who': Pretty Good
Ghost Note AI Told Her to Shoot the Snipes. She Confessed.
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