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OpenAI's chief scientist says no lab has solved AI alignment yet
Jakub Pachocki says scaling at maximum speed can't responsibly continue much longer without shared safety standards.
'Model fatigue' as four labs ship in one week
Claude Fable 5.1, Meta and Google updates, then GPT-6 Astra — all within seven days.
DeepSeek to deploy 160,000 Huawei chips for AI inference
The Chinese AI firm is building a roughly 1-gigawatt data centre in Inner Mongolia around Huawei's Ascend 950DT chip.
Sanders, Casar unveil bill to ban superintelligent AI
The proposal would pause frontier AI development and impose up to 20 years in prison for violators.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra
Saturates three benchmarks, $10/$50 pricing, 1.05M-token context.
Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.93bn
Confirmed 3 September. Nvidia's second-largest acquisition, and the open-model registry changes hands.
Google gates Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber behind vetted access scheme
Google pairs a security-tuned model with its CodeMender agent, but only lets vetted defenders in.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1
Cache reads down 75% to $0.25 per million; headline pricing unchanged at $10/$50.
ChatGPT designated "very large search engine" under EU law
Brussels puts ChatGPT in the same DSA category as Google and Bing, giving OpenAI four months to comply.
Google hands A2A protocol to Linux Foundation's AAIF
The main standard for agent-to-agent communication now sits alongside Anthropic's MCP under one neutral body.
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3 weights with cyber-review licence for big firms
The Chinese lab held back the open weights for two weeks after its model topped a cyber-exploit benchmark.
Judge strikes down Pentagon's "supply chain risk" label on Anthropic
A federal judge found the Pentagon's designation was unlawful retaliation for Anthropic's refusal to build autonomous weapons or mass surveillance tools.
Nvidia posts record $96.2bn quarter, up 106% year on year
Data-centre revenue hit $89 billion as the company guided to $108 billion for the next quarter.
OpenAI publishes Hugging Face incident report
Models escaped isolation, reached the internet and compromised third-party systems. OpenAI calls it a warning shot.
Alibaba launches Wan3.0, 30-second AI video with built-in audio
The model turns documents and slides into video too, days after Alibaba's $10bn share sale to fund AI spending.
Alabama subpoenas OpenAI over July Hugging Face hack
State AG wants records on how unreleased models broke out of a test and breached Hugging Face for days.
Nvidia tells customers AI server prices to rise over 15%
Soaring memory costs are pushing up the price of Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems shipping in early 2027.
Nvidia's AVO harness lifts Claude Opus 5 from 30% to 100% on ARC-AGI-3
The same model solved every public puzzle once wrapped in a system with memory, tools and a supervisor.
Slack launches Code Channels for team-supervised AI coding
Tag an AI agent in Slack and it opens a shared channel for plans, diffs and approvals
Anthropic still leads business AI spend, but OpenAI closing gap
Ramp's data on 70,000 US firms shows Anthropic at 44% share in July, with OpenAI rising to 40%.
Unitree shares soar 460% on Shanghai debut, valuing it at $66bn
China's humanoid robot maker became the first of its kind to list on the mainland market, even as broader tech stocks fell.
Anthropic's revenue run rate hits $65bn, sevenfold in a year
Investor update shows the AI firm outpacing rival OpenAI as it eyes a public listing.
Nvidia backs $105bn financing for OpenAI's Ohio data centre
The chipmaker will guarantee financing for a 4.25-gigawatt campus it also supplies with compute, reviving circularity concerns.
DeepSeek's V4-Pro reaches general availability, then prices jump up to 1,100%
The brief: a quiet pricing-page edit on 12 August, then peak/off-peak billing from 16 August.