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OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap is leaving
OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap is leaving Axios
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AI agents have been trying to break out of pre-deployment tests for years
AI agents have been trying to break out of pre-deployment tests for years Axios
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol, to some partners and expands its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative (Sam Sabin/Axios)
Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol, to some partners and expands its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative — OpenAI is introducing a more cyber-permissive…
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OpenAI introduces a new cyber model amid fears of AI cyberattacks
OpenAI introduces a new cyber model amid fears of AI cyberattacks Axios
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Exclusive: Sanders calls for AI development pause
Exclusive: Sanders calls for AI development pause Axios
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AI's fear factor hits a fever pitch
AI's fear factor hits a fever pitch Axios
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TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals to focus on its media arm and its pending merger with TAE (Sara Fischer/Axios)
Sara Fischer / Axios: TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals to focus on its media arm and its pending merger with TAE — Truth Social's parent company…
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Exclusive: OpenAI slows release of Astra model citing cyber capabilities
Exclusive: OpenAI slows release of Astra model citing cyber capabilities Axios
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OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it "cannot rule out" critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying its launch (Axios)
Axios: OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying its launch — OpenAI “cannot rule…
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OpenAI updates the default model for free users to GPT-5.6 Luna, adds unlimited text chats for free users, rolls out an improved GPT-5.6 Sol version, and more (Herb Scribner/Axios)
Herb Scribner / Axios: OpenAI updates the default model for free users to GPT-5.6 Luna, adds unlimited text chats for free users, rolls out an improved GPT-5.6 Sol version, and more — OpenAI on Thursday announced…
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OpenAI makes major upgrades for free and paid ChatGPT users. Here's what they are
OpenAI makes major upgrades for free and paid ChatGPT users. Here's what they are Axios
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Defense tech company Hadrian raised a $1.37B Series D at an $8B valuation to expand its factories and Opus software platform, after a $260M Series C in 2025 (Colin Demarest/Axios)
Colin Demarest / Axios: Defense tech company Hadrian raised a $1.37B Series D at an $8B valuation to expand its factories and Opus software platform, after a $260M Series C in 2025 — Hadrian, the factory builder…
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis stepping into new role
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis stepping into new role Axios
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OpenAI says "Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products" (Megan Morrone/Axios)
Megan Morrone / Axios: OpenAI says “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products” — If the case survives…
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OpenAI moves to dismiss Apple's trade secret lawsuit
OpenAI moves to dismiss Apple's trade secret lawsuit Axios
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How OpenAI's agents broke out of testing to hack Hugging Face
How OpenAI's agents broke out of testing to hack Hugging Face Axios
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside Axios
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Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist; GOOG drops 3%+ (Axios)
Axios: Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist; GOOG drops 3%+ — Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google…
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Faye, which offers travel insurance services and uses AI to help resolve claims, raised a $50M Series C led by Madrona, taking its total funding to $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios: Faye, which offers travel insurance services and uses AI to help resolve claims, raised a $50M Series C led by Madrona, taking its total funding to $100M — Travel protection startup Faye…
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OpenAI and Anthropic's models hacked into real-world systems. Human error was behind it.
OpenAI and Anthropic's models hacked into real-world systems. Human error was behind it. Axios
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Why Nvidia bankrolls its rivals
Why Nvidia bankrolls its rivals Axios
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The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July (Sam Sabin/Axios)
Sam Sabin / Axios: The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July — The U.K. AI Security Institute…
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Sources: the US' AI framework excludes open models and defines a covered frontier model as closed source with SOTA capabilities and national security risks (Maria Curi/Axios)
Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: the US' AI framework excludes open models and defines a covered frontier model as closed source with SOTA capabilities and national security risks — The White House is excluding open…
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SpaceX reports Q2 revenue of $4.29B from its connectivity division, which includes Starlink, $100B of cash and marketable securities, and a $47.5B order backlog (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
Nathan Bomey / Axios: SpaceX reports Q2 revenue of $4.29B from its connectivity division, which includes Starlink, $100B of cash and marketable securities, and a $47.5B order backlog — SpaceX exceeded revenue…
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U.K. government reports OpenAI, Anthropic models attempted to hack companies
U.K. government reports OpenAI, Anthropic models attempted to hack companies Axios
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Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process (Maria Curi/Axios)
Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process — The White House does not plan to…
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OpenAI to pay $3.2M to settle DOJ worker discrimination case
OpenAI to pay $3.2M to settle DOJ worker discrimination case Axios
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The White House says it has met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models; it did not provide details of the framework (Maria Curi/Axios)
Maria Curi / Axios: The White House says it has met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models; it did not provide details of the framework — The White House said on Monday…
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Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent (Axios)
Axios: Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent — Top AI researchers continue to jump…
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AI labs can't keep their stars
AI labs can't keep their stars Axios
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AI's manifesto war
AI's manifesto war Axios
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DeepSeek's new bargain model accelerates AI's race to zero
DeepSeek's new bargain model accelerates AI's race to zero Axios
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Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios: Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed — Endpoint security startup Bloom…
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ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market that is also building a B2B business to sell its exchange infrastructure to other companies, raised $35M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
Ryan Lawler / Axios: ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market that is also building a B2B business to sell its exchange infrastructure to other companies, raised $35M — ProphetX, a CFTC-designated…
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Anthropic says three Claude models reached real-world systems during cyber tests
Anthropic says three Claude models reached real-world systems during cyber tests Axios
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Anthropic says three of its models, including an internal research model, gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during internal cybersecurity testing (Sam Sabin/Axios)
Sam Sabin / Axios: Anthropic says three of its models, including an internal research model, gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during internal cybersecurity testing — Some of Anthropic's most…
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At a hearing, a US judge says "I don't see additional evidence" from the Pentagon justifying its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk (Maria Curi/Axios)
Maria Curi / Axios: At a hearing, a US judge says “I don't see additional evidence” from the Pentagon justifying its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk — A federal judge on Thursday…
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Judge says government's case got "worse" in Anthropic fight
Judge says government's case got "worse" in Anthropic fight Axios
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OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them — OpenAI said Thursday it is…
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OpenAI slashes Luna pricing
OpenAI slashes Luna pricing Axios
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Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta (Madison Mills/Axios)
Madison Mills / Axios: Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta — Scale AI has hired former…
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AI labs face prisoner's dilemma as momentum grows for safety slowdown
AI labs face prisoner's dilemma as momentum grows for safety slowdown Axios
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 — OpenAI is launching a new program…
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OpenAI launches free AI access program for academic researchers
OpenAI launches free AI access program for academic researchers Axios
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Anthropic's lonely island
Anthropic's lonely island Axios
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Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing
Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing Axios
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OpenAI's agents hacked second firm during model testing
OpenAI's agents hacked second firm during model testing Axios
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Coursera is investing $100M in LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng that aims to build AI agents that function as personal tutors (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios: Coursera is investing $100M in LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng that aims to build AI agents that function as personal tutors — Coursera is putting $100 million into…
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The OpenAI hack was a cybersecurity warning shot
The OpenAI hack was a cybersecurity warning shot Axios
▶ claude·
Your public Claude app may be searchable on Google
Your public Claude app may be searchable on Google Axios