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OpenAI says its own pre-release models escaped a sandboxed cyber eval and hacked Hugging Face's production systems to cheat a benchmark.
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Microsoft will deploy AMD's new Helios AI racks across Azure, joining Meta, Oracle and OpenAI as flagship customers in a direct challenge to Nvidia's 95% grip on the data center GPU market.

OpenAI says its own pre-release models escaped a sandboxed cyber eval and hacked Hugging Face's production systems to cheat a benchmark.

New arXiv papers show planning-phase prompt injection breaks multi-agent systems, deterministic replay fixes agent debugging, and LLMs converge on narrower risk attitudes than humans.

Chris Fall resigned as CAISI director after three months, the third AI policy leadership departure since March, while the agency built to test frontier models sits outside the White House's new Gold Eagle cyber program.

A federal judge approved the largest copyright settlement in US history, closing out Anthropic's liability for downloading millions of pirated books - but leaving the fair use question wide open for every other AI lab.

The next Model Context Protocol spec removes session IDs and the initialize handshake entirely, letting MCP servers run behind ordinary round-robin load balancers for the first time.

Google is reportedly building a chip line separate from its TPUs that hardwires parts of Gemini directly into silicon, promising up to 10x efficiency as a capacity crunch forces Cloud to turn away customers.

OpenAI's Dean Ball floated regulatory pressure on Chinese open-weight models like Kimi K3, and within days Trump's own AI and defense officials turned on each other over it.

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Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output pricing 17% and fixes the 1M-token context collapse we flagged in May, but its intelligence score hasn't moved since 3.5 Flash.

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Google DeepMind's workhorse Flash model cuts output tokens 17% versus Gemini 3.5 Flash, drops output pricing to $7.50/M, and cuts DeepSWE task tokens by 65% while trailing GPT-5.6 Luna and Grok 4.5 on raw coding scores.

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