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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
OpenAI Seeks $30bn at $1.4tn to Put Off Its IPO The Decoder: ChatGPT passes 1.2 billion weekly users, OpenAI says
NEWBurry Moves Up His AI Bubble Timeline CNBC: Cramer says Wall Street is losing the narrative battle over AI
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWStaff Warned on Security. Execs Cited Deadlines.
Two employees emailed executives in the months before the Hugging Face breach warning that model testing was not adequately monitored or secured; the replies cited release deadlines, and the exchanges had not been reported before.
Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots to GitHub
NEWAnthropic: GLM-5.3 Ships Without Safeguards BBC: jailbroken Kimi models gave researchers bioweapon and assassination instructions
The WorkbenchTools and agents
OpenAI Adds a $500 Tier, Thins the $200
Your ChatGPT Plan Now Pays for Devin
Codex Gets Reusable Cloud Workspaces
NEWMCP Agents Stop Polling, Start Listening Forkast: the working group behind it is co-led by AWS and Anthropic
OpenAI Agents Run Inside AWS
The FightLaw, policy and power
Nonprofit 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.
His Own AI Site Said Trump Lost in 2020 CNBC: the portal runs on Google's Gemini and Musk's Grok, Gebbia says
NEWAccord Signed: Outside Audits, Board Review Nextgov: the rename order gives OSTP 60 days to draft a legal definition of SI
OpenAI Skipped Nvidia's Rogue-Agent Pact
NEWFirst AI Fair-Use Appeal Lands. It's Sealed.
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
AI 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
Apple Shelves Plan to Cut 5,000 for AI MacRumors: Ternus wants fewer hires, fewer managers and more from each engineer
NEW500,000 Faces Scanned, One Wrong Match
NEWRobinhood Hands 29m Accounts a Trading Agent CoinDesk: the same summit added 10x crypto perps and weekend stock trading
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
BBC Boss Liked the AI 'Doctor Who'
Ghost Note AI Told Her to Shoot the Snipes. She Confessed.
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