OpenAI is closing in on a new funding round of up to $30 billion but has lowered its valuation target to get there. The article OpenAI lowers valuation…
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Google’s Gemini 4 Argon found critical PHP flaw affecting millions of websites
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol discovered a critical PHP vulnerability as part of the Patch the Planet initiative that could affect millions of websites. Security…
Google Cloud now offers OpenAI models alongside Gemini and Claude, becoming the only major provider with all three
Google Cloud is the first major cloud provider to offer Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI’s GPTs on a single platform. At launch, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and…
Major US banks are locking out AI agents that log in with customer credentials
Customers are letting AI agents use their credentials to access accounts at Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and other major U.S. banks, sometimes without direct…
Google’s Agent Compute Engine gives every Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated micro virtual machine
With Agent Compute Engine, Google is introducing a runtime environment designed specifically for AI agents, while also expanding the governance…
Deepmind founder Hassabis shortens AGI timeline from five to two to three years
Demis Hassabis keeps moving up his AGI timeline. The Nobel laureate and former Google Deepmind CEO now expects artificial general intelligence within two…
Only 13 percent of companies see real returns from AI, Gartner survey finds
Only 13 percent of companies are getting real business value from their AI investments, according to a Gartner survey of 2,002 CIOs. At the same time, 51…
Inception’s Mercury 3 diffusion model claims to beat GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at a fraction of the wait
Inception says Mercury 3 is the most capable diffusion language model released so far. The company claims it runs four to eight times faster than GPT-6…
Mistral and Nvidia want to speed up industrial design with physics AI
Mistral and Nvidia are teaming up to speed up engineering simulations and industrial product design with AI. The article Mistral and Nvidia want to speed…
Recursive shows first result of its AI-driven research process with Flint
The AI startup Recursive is unveiling Flint, its first language model, a 40-billion-parameter MoE for local coding developed by former DeepMind…