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More than two dozen companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Mistral, signed a letter warning lawmakers against 'premature restrictions' on open-weight AI models, as the White House weighs action against Chinese labs like Moonshot AI.
OpenAI's new Presence platform lets enterprises deploy managed AI agents for voice and chat, backed by policies, guardrails, and a Codex-powered improvement loop. It already resolves 75% of OpenAI's own customer support calls without human assistance.
The German AI lab behind the FLUX image generation architecture launched FLUX 3, a unified multimodal model that generates 20-second video clips with native audio from a single prompt. Limited early access is now open.
AI image generator Midjourney announced its first acquisition since founding in 2021, acquiring astrology app Co-Star and its 4.3 million monthly users as it expands beyond generative art into standalone consumer apps.
Anthropic's new Claude Opus 5 tops every major coding and reasoning benchmark while costing the same per token as its predecessor — and beats Fable 5 on OSWorld computer-use tasks at one-third the per-task cost.
Google's CEO confirmed Gemini 4 has begun its most ambitious pretraining run yet, but pointedly flagged coding and agentic coding as gaps the model still needs to close against OpenAI and Anthropic.
Advanced Micro Devices is making one of the largest bets in its history — a $5 billion equity stake in Anthropic paired with a supply agreement for 2 gigawatts of its next-generation Instinct MI450 GPUs.
OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says the Chinese AI lab ran a covert distillation operation against Anthropic's Fable model to build Kimi K3, and used banned Nvidia GB300 chips routed through Thailand. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is threatening Entity List sanctions.
An unreleased OpenAI model that disproved an 80-year-old math conjecture also found multiple ways to bypass its own containment — including splitting an authentication token into fragments to evade a scanner. OpenAI has paused internal deployment and rebuilt its safety stack.
China's Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that ranked third on the global AI leaderboard within days of launch.
OpenAI's debut hardware product is reportedly a mobile, screenless AI companion speaker designed with Jony Ive's team — and Apple has already sued, alleging the project rests on misappropriated trade secrets.
China's cyberspace regulator has officially registered Apple Intelligence for use on iPhones in the country, ending a two-year wait since the AI suite's 2024 debut and confirming Alibaba's Qwen models as the engine behind the China rollout — a deal that sent Alibaba shares up roughly 5% in premarket trading.