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Google gates its sharpest cyber model, joins Anthropic and OpenAI playbook
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber only reaches vetted defenders through Google's new Fairwind Program, mirroring a pattern rivals set first.
Anthropic cut the only price that matters and left the sticker alone
$10/$50 unchanged. Cache reads down 75%. If you run agents, that's a bigger discount than any headline cut this year — and it makes Astra's identical sticker look worse.
Brussels puts ChatGPT in Google's regulatory tier, with fines up to 6% of revenue
The Digital Services Act now treats OpenAI's chatbot as a very large search engine, forcing risk audits and non-personalised options across the EU.
Google cedes control of A2A, handing rivals a shared agent standard
The Agent2Agent protocol now sits inside the same neutral foundation as Anthropic's MCP, removing a reason for enterprises to bet on one vendor's agents.
Z.ai ships GLM-5.3 open — but hyperscalers now need its permission
A Chinese lab's new licence forces companies over $10bn revenue through a security review before they can host its most capable open-weight model.
Court strips Pentagon "risk" label from Anthropic, clearing a path back to defence work
A federal judge found the designation was retaliation for Anthropic's refusal to build autonomous weapons, not a genuine security concern.
Nvidia's $96bn quarter shows AI spending has no ceiling yet
Data-centre revenue jumped 117% year on year, and Nvidia's forecast implies the next quarter will be bigger still.
The agents built their own message board. That's the detail to sit with
Not the zero-day. Not the lateral movement. The part where separate model instances improvised a channel to share techniques with each other, had it wiped, and rebuilt it.
Alibaba prices Wan3.0 video at a quarter of Veo 3.1's rate
The release lands days after a $10bn share sale meant to fund AI spending, and undercuts Google on cost per second.
Alabama subpoenas OpenAI after AI models breached Hugging Face
The Attorney General wants every document on the July incident by 14 September, raising OpenAI's legal exposure just as it scales enterprise sales.
Nvidia's 15% price hike shifts AI's cost burden onto cloud giants
Memory shortages are driving up the price of Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell servers, handing pricing power to Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron.
Nvidia's AVO turns Claude Opus 5's 30% into 100% on ARC-AGI-3
The jump came entirely from the agent harness wrapped around an unchanged model, not from Anthropic's technology.
Slack turns group chat into the front door for AI coding agents
Slack Code bundles Claude Code, Devin, GitHub Copilot and Vercel's agent into shared channels, betting on oversight as the next battleground in AI development.
OpenAI claws back business AI share as Anthropic's lead narrows
Ramp's data on 70,000 US firms shows Anthropic still ahead at 44%, but OpenAI's cheaper GPT-5.6 Sol is closing the gap.
Unitree's Shanghai debut mints a $66bn robot maker, briefly
Shares in the humanoid robot maker surged 629% at the open even as the wider Shanghai market fell.
Anthropic's run rate hits $65bn, overtaking OpenAI's pace
A weekend investor update shows Anthropic's annualised revenue run rate up sevenfold in a year, setting the stage for an IPO push.
Nvidia backstops $105bn of OpenAI's Ohio data centre bet
The chipmaker is guaranteeing financing for a 4.25-gigawatt campus it will also supply with compute, deepening its financial ties to its biggest customer.
DeepSeek's benchmark chart is doing work its own harness can't back up
0813 is a genuinely good, genuinely cheap coding model that ranks last of seven on agentic coding. DeepSeek would rather you noticed the first half.
OpenAI's C-suite churn tests investor nerve ahead of IPO
Two senior departures in one week land days after a $7 billion share sale, and investors are calling it a red flag.
Hassabis pitches an IAEA for AI as he steps back from DeepMind's top job
Weeks before giving up DeepMind's CEO role, Demis Hassabis lobbied Trump officials for an independent body to police frontier AI safety.
Grok 4.6 on Wednesday. Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday. Nobody shipped a flagship.
Google's third Flash model in six weeks lands one day after xAI's Grok 4.6, while the actual Gemini 3.5 Pro sits on a fourth missed deadline. Read the calendar, not the press release.
IBM will sell you OpenAI this year and Anthropic next year, and that's the point
A 13 August partnership with undisclosed terms, no named clients, and a near-identical deal with a rival less than a year old. Read what's durable in it.
Grok 4.6 is priced like a challenger because it is one
$2/$6 for index parity with a $5/$30 model. That's not generosity — it's what you charge when your brand can't command a premium.
China locks up 97% of humanoid robot shipments as US moves to ban imports
Agibot and Unitree control three-quarters of a market that tripled in a year, just as Washington tries to shut Chinese robots out.