Anthropic is leasing $9.1 billion worth of data center capacity from Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms in Texas, according to Bloomberg. The deal covers 191…
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OpenAI introduces $125 Premium Seats for ChatGPT Business as agentic AI burns through more tokens
OpenAI is rolling out “Premium Seats” for ChatGPT Business customers at $125 per user per month, five times the price of the existing Standard Seats. In…
Nvidia guarantees its own chips’ value to unlock $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing
Nvidia is teaming up with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure. To win…
Anthropic watermarks all Claude outputs globally with marks that “may persist through some editing”
Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in all Claude-generated text and sign files using the C2PA standard. New models shipping from August 2026 onward…
Old OCR text cripples language model training, and FineBooks wants to fix that at scale
The FineBooks project from Hugging Face and EleutherAI tested 14 open-source OCR models on more than 2,000 historical book pages. The top model,…
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber to help defenders find vulnerabilities before attackers do
OpenAI aims to give cybersecurity defenders a head start: The new GPT-5.6-Cyber model answers up to 98.5 percent of security queries that would otherwise…
Meta returns to open models with Zuckerberg’s plan to out-copy China and sell compute by auction
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, the first open model from its new Superintelligence Labs. It’s a 30B agent model that runs on consumer hardware once the…
Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the site instead to move its user up the waitlist
An Australian user just wanted a spot in a class. His AI agent found a security hole instead and exploited it. The article Told to book a gym class, an AI…
OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPT
OpenAI acquired NextSlide, the startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations. The article OpenAI acquires…
Hidden text in a PDF is enough to steal sensitive data through Atlassian’s AI agent Rovo
Security firm PromptArmor shows how hidden instructions in a PDF can hijack Atlassian’s AI agent Rovo, silently forwarding sensitive data from Jira and…