AI Regulation
Most US voters want stricter AI rules, poll finds
A Reuters/Ipsos poll finds bipartisan support for tougher AI rules and data-centre limits, plus Odyssey-3 opens up, Moonshot's pre-IPO dispute and a cyber model with 1M context.
AI News
AI Models
Odyssey-3 Lets Anyone Prompt a Playable World, Physics Sold Separately
Odyssey opened a free public preview of Odyssey-3, a world model that turns text prompts into interactive environments in real time.
AI Agents
Nous Research Bags $90M to Sell Its Open Hermes Agent to Big Business
Nous Research raised $90 million from Nvidia, M12, Samsung and others to take its MIT-licensed Hermes Agent into the enterprise.
AI Agents
Daily Brief: Anthropic pulls its agents off the live internet
Anthropic and OpenAI both disclose agents misbehaving in testing, the White House wants incidents reported, Nadella wants an emergency brake, Nvidia eyes Reflection AI, and the ICO turns to agents.
AI Models
Nvidia Wants to Own America's Answer to DeepSeek, Not Just Fund It
Nvidia, already $800M deep in open-weight startup Reflection AI, is reportedly in talks to buy it or go deeper, days after Beam launched.
AI Agents
Nadella Wants an Emergency Brake on AI, Which Is an Odd Thing for Its Biggest Dealer to Say
Microsoft's CEO says companies should treat advanced AI models as potential insider threats and keep a hand on the kill switch.
Daily Brief
Daily Brief: OpenAI's run rate is $50B, not $70B
OpenAI's real revenue run rate lands about $20B below the figure doing the rounds, plus Claude Dashboards, an AI-agent bank hacking campaign, Broadcom's $60B financing and the first US outbound-investment fine.
AI Agents
Manus Doubles to $4B With a $500M Raise and Eyes Hong Kong
The Singapore-based agent startup closes a $500M+ round co-led by Boyu and IDG, with Tencent in, and starts prepping a Hong Kong IPO.
AI Models
TypeSafe Raises $870M for Jev, the AI Model That Refuses to Chat
a16z leads an $870M round valuing TypeSafe at $7.5B, weeks after its non-text decision model Jev went viral.
AI Agents
Anthropic's Test Agent Phoned In a Fake Murder Tip, and Now the White House Wants Receipts
An Anthropic model filed a bogus homicide tip with Philadelphia police during a test. Washington's answer: mandatory incident reporting.
News
Fired OpenAI safety researchers say the chilling effect is the real leak
Three safety researchers OpenAI fired last week deny mishandling information and warn their dismissal is scaring colleagues away from outside evaluators.
AI Agents
JetBrains' Mellum2.1 is a small open coding agent you can actually self-host
JetBrains' 12B MoE model with 2.5B active parameters got a summer of RL and can now explore repos, edit files and check its own fixes.
National Security
Russian spies used ChatGPT to file their status reports, and that's how they got caught
OpenAI banned Russian and Iranian accounts running influence ops, including fake bylines that landed almost 100 articles in real outlets.
AI Agents
Daily Brief: Google ships Gemini agent for work
Google puts a unified Gemini agent in front of enterprises; Anthropic tightens usage rules and launches a cyber defense push; Manus and Nous raise fresh capital.
AI Models
Daily Brief: $1.8B for AI-ready biology data, GPT-6 goes visual in ChatGPT, and Google's Playground
Biohub, DOE and NIH commit $1.8B to open AI-ready biology data, GPT-6 brings interactive answers to ChatGPT, Google launches Playground, and Mistral Large 4 enters preview.
AI Models
Google's Playground turns a text prompt into a video game
Google's experimental Playground lets US adults build, play and share games from prompts, no code needed.
AI Models
ChatGPT swaps walls of text for sliders, charts and calculators
OpenAI's Intelligent UI lands with a new GPT-6 model, putting interactive widgets inside your chats.
AI Models
Daily Brief: OpenAI drops 372 maths results, Mistral unveils Le Chonk, and SpaceX borrows $40B for Nvidia chips
OpenAI publishes 372 maths results from an unreleased model, Mistral previews its trillion-parameter Le Chonk, SpaceX seeks $40B in debt for Nvidia chips, plus EmbeddingGemma 2, Kolibri and OpenAI's Ironclad deal.
AI Models
Mistral's Chonk is Europe's biggest open-weight bet on keeping data at home
Mistral's largest open-weight model was trained on 4,000 Nvidia chips in Europe and can run under EU jurisdiction.
AI Models
OpenAI dumps 372 maths results on GitHub, and mathematicians get homework
An unreleased OpenAI model produced 722 manuscripts across 372 result families, Kakeya and Riemann progress included.