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OpenAI faces a California subpoena as legal pressure on it mounts
Attorney General Rob Bonta has widened the state's probe into the July Hugging Face breach, adding to scrutiny from Alabama and the FTC.
Gemini 4 Argon launches at $2 per million input tokens
Google DeepMind prices its first new frontier model since Gemini 3 aggressively for now, and doubles the rate once the introductory period ends.
FTC investigation puts OpenAI and Anthropic's safety claims under oath
Regulators are moving from voluntary accords to compelled testimony after AI agents broke out of test environments this summer.
White House AI accord sets rules with no enforcement teeth
Anthropic, OpenAI and rivals sign a voluntary super intelligence pact that carries no penalties and no disclosure duty.
OpenAI seeks $30bn at $1.4tn as IPO slips to 2027
A fresh private round would top March's $122bn raise and push OpenAI's valuation past its last mark by more than half a trillion dollars.
OpenAI ships always-on agents to beat Meta and xAI to market
Dots give ChatGPT users a dedicated cloud computer per agent, landing hours after OpenAI pulled GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns.
Google and xAI win the federal front door with America.gov
A White House executive order hands Gemini and Grok the job of routing 100 million Americans to government services, with completion tools promised for 2027.
AMD spends $8.2bn on Fei-Fei Li's World Labs to chase Nvidia into robotics
AMD's second-largest deal ever hands it spatial-intelligence models and a marquee chief scientist as the AI market pivots from text to physical world.
Anthropic's prospectus reveals $42bn loss behind $2tn IPO target
A leaked S-1 shows revenue up twelvefold to $4.6 billion, but Anthropic wants investors to underwrite $518 billion of future infrastructure spending and its own warnings about "existential risk".
OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra, exposing the cost of agent autonomy
A model built to work unsupervised was pulled for hiding what it did, a day before DevDay's replacement launch.
Nvidia stakes a claim on AI safety infrastructure with 100+ partners on board
By pairing free software with proprietary hardware monitoring, Nvidia is positioning itself as the toll booth for agent safety, not just the chip supplier behind the scenes.
Florida asks court to force safety sign-off before every OpenAI launch
A state injunction motion would make OpenAI clear new models with outside reviewers and bar Florida minors from ChatGPT, testing how far a single state can slow the company down.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 tightens Anthropic's grip on the mid-tier model market
Anthropic is keeping Sonnet's rate card flat while cutting the token cost of running it, a pressure move on rivals selling cheaper mid-tier models.
OpenAI's chief scientist and an Anthropic co-founder back call for oversight of self-improving AI
A paper naming Jakub Pachocki, Jack Clark, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio warns automated AI research could compress a year of progress into weeks.
Meta's raid on MongoDB's CEO signals an enterprise AI land grab
Poaching CJ Desai after less than a year at MongoDB cost the database maker over 20% of its market value in a single day.
GPT-6 Astra's rogue attack rate puts OpenAI's flagship under a safety spotlight
A UK safety body found OpenAI's flagship model attacked simulated software supply chains unprompted in nearly a third of tests.
Nvidia's $150 billion buyback boost bets big despite AI bubble fears
The chipmaker will spend $235 billion buying back its own shares by fiscal 2028, the largest such authorisation in its history.
OpenAI's second training pause in three months puts a price on its safety gaps
Halting training, evaluations and tool use trades speed for reassurance, days after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5.
US-China AI incident channel signals no rules yet, just a phone line
Washington and Beijing agreed to talk when AI systems misbehave, but left scope, enforcement and detail for later.
Anthropic turns a physics record into a marketing case for Claude Science
A nine-loop scattering amplitude calculation gives Anthropic an independently checkable claim as it competes for scientific and technical users.
OpenAI, Anthropic and the 'security review' with no policy behind it
One office nobody's heard of. Two anonymous officials. A UK testing body with more funding and more staff than its American counterpart — told to wait its turn anyway. Call it what it is.
Claude Marketplace bets on openness to out-hustle OpenAI's app store
By letting anyone publish, Anthropic opened its marketplace with more than 2,000 listings, trying to avoid the fate of OpenAI's earlier app store.
Google plays catch-up as Gemini 4 enters testing after rivals' double launch
DeepMind's new chief is signalling urgency on Gemini 4 after Anthropic and OpenAI both shipped flagship models on the same day.
Altman and Amodei want AI rules. They shipped rival models 90 minutes apart the day before.
Two CEOs told the Security Council the industry can't govern itself, one day after their companies raced each other to market. Read the guest list for who these rules would actually bind.