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Meta jumps 11% as investors bet on its Muse agent

Meta’s shares closed up 11.43% at $741.25 on Monday as investors piled into the company’s bet on AI agents. Trading volume hit 48.5 million shares, well above the three-month aver…

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OpenAI cuts GPT-6 prices in half with Sol and Luna

They are also half the price per token, and even less per task. Sam Altman wrote that on X on Tuesday, about GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. OpenAI released both models the same afterno…

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Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence

Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.

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Trump tells the UN that AI is now ‘super intelligence’

Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to give artificial intelligence a new name. From now on, he said, US government documents would cal…

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Coinspaid Dev’s Alexey Tulia on engineering leadership when AI reaches production

Alexey Tulia, Executive Leader at Coinspaid Dev, discussed the changing role of engineers and CTOs during the AI Impact in Engineering panel at Tech Race Summit 2026 in Warsaw. Hi…

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Legora’s CEO says Europe should not build a frontier AI lab

I think a lot of it is marketing, to overemphasize the proposed capabilities. Max Junestrand said that in Amsterdam on Tuesday. He was asked about the summer’s run of incidents in…

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Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents’ and applicants’ data

The theft of agents' personal information could present a major counterintelligence threat, where agents and their families are extorted into cooperating with a foreign government.

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OpenAI will let outside groups test its models during training

OpenAI says it will let third-party groups run technical safety assessments while models are being trained and evaluated rather than only before launch, and is in talks with group…

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A phone maker now has the world’s top open-weight AI model

Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. Xiaomi opened its MiMo-V2.6 announcement with that line on Tuesday. The phone and electric car maker released two open-…

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A16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school

This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade-school, Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

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China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports

While the CAC summoned all 7 companies namechecked by Anthropic’s report, the probe quickly zeroed in on DeepSeek and Moonshot due to the examples the report detailed. Jing Yang w…

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Zapata Quantum opens early access to Quantum Pilot, a roadmap tool for enterprise quantum

Quantum hardware roadmaps often include timelines, but they rarely answer the questions that matter most to a chief information officer: which problems will this solve, when will …

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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes

OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

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Waymo’s latest expansion strategy: teenagers

Waymo is opening its robotaxi service to teenagers aged 13 to 17 in Nashville, its second city the offer rides to minors.

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Anthropic’s cheaper Opus arrives weeks before its IPO

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, below the $5 and $25 that Opus 5 has carried since July, and says it perfo…

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Z.ai apologised, open-sourced ZCode, and wiped the commit history

In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we have completed the necessary remediation and sincerely apologize to all our users. Z.ai posted that …

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Dutch government publishes call from 21 countries and the EU for international oversight of frontier AI

A joint statement released today by the Dutch government has seen leaders and ministers from 21 countries, together with the European Commission, call for tighter control over fro…

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China’s biggest memory maker says it has caught up with Samsung and Micron

Our process capability is now on par with the most advanced mass-produced nodes out there in the industry. Luo Xiaodong, vice president of ChangXin Memory Technologies and head of…

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Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance

Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."

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Parloa says it is partnering with Zalando on AI customer conversations

Parloa co-founder and chief executive Malte Kosub said Zalando will use the Berlin company’s AI for customer conversations across Europe, though neither company has published an a…

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The fastest-adopted model on Vercel this year cannot write a word

We have lightning in a bottle, and yet it is not useful. Diogo Almeida helped build ChatGPT. He worked on the instruction-following research behind it at OpenAI, and the four year…

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Stolen passwords are exposing America’s water providers to hackers

Researchers say another looming threat hangs over some of America's most important critical infrastructure.

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Mercedes-Benz is putting a British AI driver into its production cars

Wayve has signed a definitive production agreement with Mercedes-Benz to put its AI Driver into future vehicles within the next two years, providing urban and motorway point-to-po…

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TikTok’s US joint venture joins Lantern child safety programme and pledges $2M to NCMEC

TikTok’s US business has joined Lantern, a program that lets tech companies share warning signs about people who sexually exploit children as they move from one platform to anothe…