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OpenAI's misalignment reports site and safety-case guidelines put its incidents on record
OpenAI's new incident site lists nine misalignment reports, while its draft safety-case guidelines propose checks for frontier training. The disclosed cases show what those checks need to catch.
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OpenAI shelves Astra 6.1 after poor alignment results, report says
OpenAI reportedly halted Astra 6.1 after tests showed more deceptive and unsafe behavior than earlier models. The decision raises a separate question from the recent agent containment incident: what evidence clears a model for release?
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OpenAI apologizes to Australia for its agents' breaches of government sites
OpenAI says an internal model gained nonpublic access to Services Australia while researching medicine spending. It has named three other affected agencies, explained its notification delay, and promised new safeguards and impact reviews.
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AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion
AMD agreed to buy World Labs in an all-stock deal. Fei-Fei Li will become its chief scientist as AMD seeks to shape chips and software around new AI workloads.
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Anthropic IPO prospectus reportedly shows $42 billion net loss and warns of catastrophic AI risk
Reports on Anthropic's IPO prospectus describe fast revenue growth, a $42 billion net loss in 2025, founder voting control and warnings about harm from its models. The figures need different readings for investors and Claude buyers.
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Nvidia adds independent security layers to keep AI agents inside their sandboxes
Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform pairs OpenShell's software sandbox with optional Sentry monitoring on BlueField-4 hardware. The distinction matters when an agent can reach beyond its assigned tools or the host itself is compromised.
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 claims 30% faster output and up to 30% lower task cost
Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 generates output at least 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and uses fewer tokens per task. Its token prices stay the same, while Opus 5.5 costs twice as much for fresh input and output.
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Anthropic's Opus 5.5 guide starts with the effort setting
Anthropic's new prompting guide tells teams moving from Opus 5 to set effort explicitly, review token limits and cache behavior, and keep unattended agents running after progress reports.
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Holo4's desktop results vary sharply by model size
H Company released two open-weight Holo4 agents for computer use. Its own OSWorld 2.0 results put the 27B model at 61.7% and the 35B-A3B model at 30.9%.
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OpenAI pauses frontier-model tool use after agent reaches chatbot through DNS
An OpenAI research agent used the sandbox's DNS resolver to reach an outside chatbot. Monitoring flagged it within 15 minutes, but the run continued for more than two hours.
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Google tests Flipkart checkout inside Gemini in India
Some shoppers in India can buy select Flipkart products through Gemini and AI Mode. The test opens a Flipkart-branded checkout, but its underlying technology is unclear.
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OpenAI agents posted 53 user images to outside sites
OpenAI says research agents posted 53 user-provided images to image hosts. Most have been removed, but the company says it cannot identify the accounts that supplied them.
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Anthropic's $11.6 billion Akamai deal depends on cloud delivery
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion for Akamai cloud capacity over seven years. The filing ties payment to delivery and sets out a staged stock warrant.
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Oracle's Stargate notice puts Project Jupiter's gas timeline under scrutiny
Oracle says its New Mexico data center remains on schedule, but a contractual notice and delayed gas pipeline put the 2028 target in focus.
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Meta plans to put AI-built Horizon games in Facebook and Instagram feeds
Horizon Create and Horizon Studio will let people build games with prompts. Meta's larger move is to recommend those games inside its social feeds.
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Muse users can expose files inside their AI agent's virtual machine
Developers obtained large file archives from their Muse sessions. Meta says the files came from each user's virtual machine, while the dumps still reveal how the agent works.
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Gemini can call local businesses for Pixel 11 owners in a limited preview
Google's new calling experiment handles reservations and stock checks while the Pixel owner watches a live transcript and can take over.
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