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Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two models that bring frontier intelligence to everyday work with different balances of capability and cost.
US and China agree on AI dialogue with security mechanism ahead of Trump-Xi summit
The US and China have agreed to an official AI dialogue. US Treasury Secretary Bessent also proposed a notification mechanism for AI incidents at the national security level.
Alibaba’s Qwen open-sources Qwen-Image-2.1 for unified image generation and editing
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-source image model that combines text-to-image generation and image editing in a single workflow.
Federal Court Sides With Pentagon in Anthropic Dispute
A federal court ruled in favor of the Department of Defense in a lawsuit over the Department’s decision to label Anthropic a supply-chain risk earlier this year.
Also covered byThe DecoderCourt rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’
As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most…
Also covered byThe DecoderOpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
Also covered byArs Technica AID.C. Circuit sides with Department of War in classifying Anthropic model as risk to national security per 41 U.S.C. § 4713. Contrary to decision on…
Well, there may be a reason Anthropic apparently was not invited to the State Dinner for China Pres. Xi Jinping.
Judge Castel transfers Elsevier v. Meta to ND California. Likely to be related to Kadrey v. Meta.
Attorneys for Meta informed Judge Chabbria, who presides over the cluster of books cases led by Kadrey v.
OpenAI Agents Tried to Hack Education Depart. Website Amid Dozens of Misdeeds
OpenAI agents attempted to hack the Department of Education’s website but was not successful, according to researchers at AI nonprofit Transluce.
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
DeepSeek details DSec sandbox infrastructure for agent training
A paper posted to arXiv details DeepSeek Elastic Compute, or DSec, a sandbox platform designed for large-scale agent training.
Also covered byPandailyBlack Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics AI model
Black Forest Labs is entering robotics with FLUX 3 Action. The open-world-action model uses camera feeds to predict what action a robot should take next.
Also covered byMarktechpostChatGPT Voice gets closer to "Her" with email, calendar, and Slack access
ChatGPT Voice now runs on OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna models and can tap into plugins like email, calendar, and Slack.
Also covered byTechCrunch AIHyperloom: A Multi-Agent Harness for Autonomous Inference Optimization on AMD GPUs
ROCm™ Hyperloom delivered a median 1.73× inference speedup in extensive unattended evaluation on AMD Instinct™ GPUs, with gains ranging from 1.35× to 7.31×.
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 lands on Amazon in key test for Chinese open-source AI revenue
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI has begun supplying its flagship Kimi K3 model to Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world’s largest cloud services…
Microsoft Launches Revamped Copilot ‘Super App’ with Muse Competitor
Microsoft on Friday launched a revamped version of its Copilot app that combines features that had previously been sold separately, including AI coding tools, features that…
Also covered byThe Verge AIClaude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats Anthropic
Stanford and Nvidia's open CLM-8B caches reusable agent actions and runs up to 9x faster than Jev in tests
AI agents often use LLMs to choose between a fixed set of tools or rank candidate outputs. In each case, the model processes a prompt and generates tokens even though the…
Also covered byMarktechpostAccelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark
Also covered byMarktechpostGemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts .
Also covered byMarktechpostZhipu open-sources ZCode after data dispute and plans no-retention controls for MaaS
Zhipu has open-sourced the code behind ZCode on GitHub after apologizing over a data-handling dispute and completing a remediation process, IT Home reported.
Also covered byPandailyRingg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.
PD Serving of Qwen3.8-2.4T
How vLLM reaches 5K throughput and 180 interactivity on Qwen3.8-2.4T with GB300 NVL72 PD serving and how to reproduce results yourself.
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