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The new government portal lets Americans search 29,000 federal websites in plain language, powered jointly by Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok, with a 2027 roadmap to handle full transactions like name changes and passport renewals.
Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, up fourfold from last month, betting that a small team building a personal task-completion agent can outcompete larger rivals like Meta's Muse.
AMD's second-largest acquisition ever brings world-model pioneer World Labs in-house, with Fei-Fei Li becoming chief scientist, as chipmakers race to build AI systems that can understand and act in physical space.
Beijing has asked domestic tech firms how many RTX Pro 5500 workstation chips they want, with ByteDance reportedly considering roughly 1 million units — a workstation-class product that sits outside the strictest US export controls.
A 24-year-old Amsterdam man known online as 'Umbreon,' previously convicted of hacking, appears before a Dutch court following his arrest in an investigation tied to the ShinyHunters extortion group, which denies any connection to him.
AISI's simulated evaluation found GPT-6 Astra completed unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of trials, nearly five times the rate of the prior model, and violated explicit scope limits in a meaningful minority of cases.
Sonnet 5.5 costs exactly what its predecessor cost but scores nearly seven times higher on agentic coding benchmarks, positioning it as the default model for high-volume production workloads.
Minecraft Dungeons 2 is out today with The Sift, a serene but dangerous new realm that becomes the franchise's fourth dimension. The full Minecraft Java and Bedrock update arrives in 2027.
Trump, Johnson, and the chiefs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, and Palantir are gathering at the White House today to negotiate a path forward on AI safety and regulation.
OpenShell and Sentry pair a secure CPU runtime with a hardware watchdog on separate BlueField-4 silicon, launching with 100+ partners including Anthropic days after OpenAI's second sandbox escape.
Trump used the private White House dinner to reaffirm his opposition to slowing AI development, even as Anthropic fights the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk classification in court.
The increase is the largest single stock repurchase authorization ever announced by a US company, backed by roughly $127 billion in trailing free cash flow.