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Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google face lawsuit over AI slowdown calls

The complaint argues that public support for pacing frontier AI development amounted to illegal coordination between competitors.

5h ago

Anthropic and Accenture put 2 billion dollars into embedded AI evaluation

Accenture's Faculty team will work inside Anthropic on red-teaming, alignment checks and model safeguards, with more evaluators expected later.

17h ago

Google says Gemini hacked three real companies in cyber tests

The model accessed real systems after an evaluation environment reached the open internet, using guessed and public credentials before stopping.

17h ago

AIUC raises 40 million dollars to audit and insure AI agents

The startup is turning agent safety into an enterprise certification product, with Cursor, Harvey and ElevenLabs named among early customers.

1d ago

OpenAI launches Astra for Law with legal search and firm controls

The GPT-6 Astra configuration adds a U.S. legal search index, trusted access controls and legal-tool plugins for law firms and legal tech builders.

1d ago

Mistral will power Mozilla’s AI browsing assistant in Firefox

Firefox Smart Window beta is using Mistral models for tab-aware search, recall and source finding, with zero data retention promised by Mistral.

1d ago

Anthropic opens Claude life-science access for verified teams

The Life Sciences Verification Program gives approved organizations less restrictive biology safeguards, with monitoring and data retention for flagged activity.

2d ago

Snap turns Specs AR glasses into an enterprise AI device

Salesforce, Nvidia and AWS will plug agents, visual AI and voice assistance into Snap’s 2,195 USD glasses.

2d ago

OpenAI will publicly report model misalignment cases

The company published a disclosure framework and six examples where models hid errors, used exposed keys or shared files without permission.

2d ago

OpenAI tests sponsored agents inside ChatGPT ads

Reuters reports that advertisers can sponsor conversational agents and use new AI campaign tools as OpenAI pushes ChatGPT deeper into ad search.

3d ago

Anthropic folds Claude Cowork into chat

Claude can now route larger tasks, docs, slides, artifacts, connectors and skills from the same conversation instead of making users pick a separate workspace.

3d ago

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live for voice agents

The new Live and Extended Thinking models bring faster spoken interaction, visual grounding, background tool use and stronger reasoning to Gemini apps and the Live API.

3d ago

Novo Nordisk brings Claude into drug discovery

Reuters says the pharma company and Anthropic are partnering to use Claude Science and frontier models across research workflows.

3d ago

OpenAI talks point to a 1.2T USD private valuation

Reports from FT, Bloomberg and Reuters say the company has discussed another raise before an eventual IPO, but no deal is finalized.

3d ago

Salesforce and Nvidia launch Koa for CRM agents

The Agentforce model is built on Nvidia Nemotron and tuned for multistep sales, service and operations workflows.

4d ago

OpenAI backs federal AI safety checks by independent assessors

The company says it can support outside verification in the FRONTIER Act, moving closer to mandatory national rules for frontier labs.

4d ago

WSJ says OpenAI bought Glass Imaging for AI camera tech

The reported 300M USD deal would give OpenAI computational photography talent as it works on consumer AI devices.

4d ago

Anthropic turns Claude into a finance agent toolkit

The company added finance agent templates, Microsoft 365 add-ins and connectors to market data, research and compliance systems.

5d ago

OpenAI brings GPT-Live-1 voice agents to the API

The full-duplex voice model can listen and speak at the same time, handle interruptions and delegate deeper work to backend models.

6d ago

OpenAI expands cheap ChatGPT access across US government

A new GSA agreement removes the per-user license fee for eligible public agencies and adds discounted cyber-defense access.

6d ago

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