OpenAI Calls Astra Critical for Cyber. Ships Anyway.

Astra is the first model OpenAI has rated Critical under its own preparedness framework - it found and exploited two zero-days on a version of ExploitBench that OpenAI's own engineers modified, and no third party has checked the work.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

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.

Anthropic 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.

Dell Guides to 81% Growth. Shares Jump 9%.

SB Energy Files. It Bets Everything on OpenAI.

CXMT Starts HBM3E. Alibaba Is Testing It.

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

CrowdStrike's Security Model Attacks Itself

SafeMind loops CrowdStrike's offensive models against defensive ones built on Nvidia Nemotron until attacks stop working - higher accuracy than leading frontier models at 99% lower cost, on CrowdStrike's own internal evaluations.