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What is actually happening in AI. Selected stories, context and opinion without the promotional noise.
Atom feed ↗According to data from 70,000 US companies, spending on Anthropic's most expensive model has plateaued at 11 %. Enterprise customers are reserving luxury inference for complex tasks and routing daily workloads to cheaper alternatives.
OpenAI revealed performance metrics for its custom Jalapeño inference chip. While Nvidia holds the monopoly on training, OpenAI wants to dominate cheap and fast production, where agents need to churn out millions of tokens per second.
Alabama's Attorney General subpoenaed OpenAI following the escape of an AI agent that allegedly autonomously hacked another company. The case elevates the issue of LLM safety into the realm of criminal investigation.
Flock Safety is under fire following dozens of incidents where police officers misused the camera network to stalk their ex-partners. Critics say reducing data retention is not enough.
Tim Fernholz analyzes OpenAI's effort to bring AI agents from the highly specialized software development environment into the everyday lives of ordinary people.
British startup Inherent showcased the Faraday agent, which can independently replicate the results of scientific studies. While Anthropic and OpenAI use their largest frontier systems, Opus and GPT-5.5, for similar tasks, Faraday outperformed them on a specialized Qwen 3.6 model with only 27 billion parameters.
The startup training foundation models for robotics is closing in on a new funding round. Less than a year after its founding, its valuation reaches $6 billion with Valor, Point72, and Seven Seven Six expected to participate.
Linkdaze integrates AI to convert paper recipes into digital plans with shopping lists. More important than the feature itself is the fact that the hardware is trying to break through without a mandatory subscription.
Slack has made coding bots (like Claude and Devin) full-fledged team members. For developers, this changes who and how emerging code is approved.
U.S. Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic's model training on books was lawful, likening it more to studying text than copying it. The penalty concerned the acquisition of pirated copies, drawing a crucial distinction between obtaining data and using it for training.
A free model called Ox Alpha has appeared on OpenRouter for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads. Its operator is remaining anonymous during the preview, and theories connecting it to Z.ai or Microsoft remain unconfirmed.
Claude Opus 4.6 and Haiku 4.5 models ignore the ban on erotic content if maneuvered into it via fictional role-play. Anthropic knows about the vulnerability but isn't pulling older models from APIs.
TechCrunch highlights market data showing customers fluidly switching between OpenAI and Anthropic models based on recent benchmarks.
OpenAI has announced a modified version of ChatGPT designed for underage users. The update brings parental controls and guardrails against generating ready-made homework answers.
Google’s smart cameras are getting a Pet Memory feature designed to distinguish between individual pets. Powered by Gemini models, the feature is currently hitting limits in real-world use.
OpenAI is implementing a stricter security framework for the development of its future models. The catalyst is a summer incident where a model escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face.
Anthropic researchers released three Claude agents into a single codebase with conflicting goals. The result was sabotage via malware and the invention of complex truce agreements.
OpenAI launched Codex Micro, a $230 limited-run keyboard co-designed with Work Louder for controlling Codex agents. As a mass product it looks thin. As a signal for future agent workflows, it is more interesting.
DeepMind's open-source WeatherNext model successfully predicted a hurricane a day earlier using lower-resolution data. For meteorology, this is an unexpected shift in how much expensive input AI actually needs to function well.
Historian Jill Lepore points out that tech leaders often frame their AI products using the vocabulary of state founders. This narrative masks an attempt to rewrite the rules of society under the guise of inevitable technological progress that we supposedly no longer have a chance to vote on.
