OpenAI unveiled a tailored enterprise ChatGPT for financial services, bundling premium datasets (Daloopa, PitchBook, LSEG News) with GPT-6 Astra reasoning for research, model building, and templated client materials with evidence tracing.
Anthropic detailed real-world misuse of Claude spanning cyber operations, influence campaigns, surveillance, and weapons development, and said it disrupted every highlighted operation and shared its findings with law enforcement.
Huawei raised the suggested price of its Ascend 950DT AI accelerator about 60% over three months to roughly 250,000 yuan (~$37,300) per card, as demand outruns supply amid the data-center boom and a high-bandwidth-memory shortage.
Compiles CFR game-tree sweeps into static dataflow graphs with CUDA graph replay, delivering an 80x speedup over prior GPU implementations and, for the first time, making CFR run faster on GPUs than CPUs.
An 8B mixture-of-transformer multimodal model that understands, reasons about, and generates visual content in an encoder-free, VAE-free architecture, supporting native resolutions up to 4K via spatially coherent patch reconstruction.
Introduces a retrospective-thinking mechanism for speech-LLMs that recovers reasoning quality on complex tasks without the latency cost of full chain-of-thought, narrowing the reasoning gap to text-only models under real-time constraints.
A benchmark evaluating topological (deformation-invariant) spatial reasoning across foundation models, showing they lean on metric and viewpoint-dependent relations and exposing systematic gaps in topological intuition.
A standardized benchmark of structural causal models and evaluation protocols for causal discovery, targeting the emerging use of foundation models to uncover causal structure from data.
A newly released open-weights model handling both text-to-speech generation and audio editing in one framework, trained on about 3 billion instance pairs with preference optimization, with weights and code released.
Together AI shared open-source Thunderkittens kernel work reaching high performance on NVIDIA's new Rubin architecture — an inference-efficiency contribution rather than a new model release.
Nous Research showed an updated Hermes Agent with detailed live activity on all sub-agents and the ability to steer or stop individual agents from both the CLI and a desktop app.
NVIDIA detailed how Skild AI built its S1 physical-AI model on NVIDIA infrastructure, spanning synthetic data generation, model training, simulation, and real-world robot deployment.
At China's World Humanoid Robotic Games, a humanoid robot reportedly outpaced the fastest human in history, a showcase meant to gauge how quickly robots are improving toward real-world work.
TechNode examines China's humanoid robot shipment share for the first half of 2026 using Counterpoint research, exploring when the sector might reach its 'ChatGPT moment' amid surging investment.
Swarmer agreed to acquire Ukrainian uncrewed ground vehicle maker Ratel Robotics in a deal worth up to $224 million, expanding its autonomous systems lineup.
Local, fast AI models that run entirely on device, targeting edge and privacy-preserving inference without cloud connectivity.
Brings any AI agent into Slack, Teams, and Discord chat, letting teams invoke agents directly inside their existing messaging workflows.
An AI sales rep that engages your website visitors autonomously, qualifying leads and responding in real time.
A spatial canvas IDE designed for AI coding agents, giving a visual workspace for multi-agent development.
Automated penetration testing specifically for AI-built apps, surfacing security issues before shipment.
EUR 28M Series A (~$32M) for the Paris-based topological neural network developer, co-led by redalpine and OTB Ventures with Bpifrance Defence Innovation Fund, Vsquared, 10x Founders and Xavier Niel.
$70M Series C at a $550M valuation, led by NewView Capital with Insight Partners, Primary, Scale, Vintage, Lightbank, Avenir and Camber Creek.
Roughly $30M in new strategic investment from Citi, Barclays, BNP Paribas, MUFG and Societe Generale, following a $160M Series D at about a $2B valuation.
$13.3M round led by Insight Partners with Bessemer Venture Partners; the Graph Safety platform automates pharmacovigilance.
A$10M pre-seed from Main Sequence (CSIRO-backed) for a persistent-memory, reasoning and control layer beneath frontier models — a record Australian pre-seed.
Free means $0 per token today, not unlimited or unconditional: both platforms rate-limit free use and require a free API key, some OpenRouter free endpoints may train on your prompts unless you opt out in account settings, and the roster changes daily. Verified against each provider's own pricing data at generation time — but pricing changes without notice, so confirm it's still free on the provider's own page before you rely on it.
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