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Trump announced that AI industry leaders including Dario Amodei, Greg Brockman, and Jensen Huang signed the White House Accord, a non-binding safety commitment, and said his administration is considering a 10-person committee to oversee the industry.
A confidential IPO prospectus reveals Anthropic could pay up to $84.5 billion through 2029 for Nvidia GPU capacity at SpaceX's Colossus data centers — almost double the roughly $45 billion SpaceX itself disclosed earlier.
A high-severity vulnerability in Anthropic's official MCP Python SDK allowed a malicious server to steal OAuth credentials and take over user accounts. The flaw, CVE-2026-52869, is now patched in versions 1.30.0 and 2.2.0.
OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has surged to nearly $70 billion, up more than 70% since July, with business-to-business sales more than doubling in Q3 2026.
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.