
Daily Brief: ChatGPT and Codex share one allowance, Aramco buys into HUMAIN
OpenAI moves ChatGPT and Codex onto one token allowance, Aramco takes 49% of HUMAIN, xAI's Colossus permit suit goes ahead, and Apple Intelligence reaches China with Qwen.

OpenAI moves ChatGPT and Codex onto one token allowance, Aramco takes 49% of HUMAIN, xAI's Colossus permit suit goes ahead, and Apple Intelligence reaches China with Qwen.

OpenAI cuts its funding target to $20B, four AI labs back one training opt-out, Apple Intelligence heads to China, and GPT-6.1 Terra arrives.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a shared robots.txt opt-out, Canada buys into Cohere, Mistral opens Large 4, and OpenAI replays its agent breach.

Nvidia releases open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, Samsung's chip arm drives a record ₩107tn quarter, Malaysia seizes AI chip servers at KL airport, and OpenAI hands ChatGPT subscribers up to $500 a month in API credits.

Gemini 4 Carbon tops the leaderboard but starts with cyber defenders, the DOJ eyes Nvidia's Hugging Face deal, OpenAI deepens its ServiceNow tie-up, and Google opens Gemini and Search to outside apps.

Genie 4 adds native audio and dialogue to real-time world simulation, OpenAI and Anthropic both claim to disprove the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Oracle apps arrive in ChatGPT, and Liquid AI ships open-weight LFM3.

Anthropic files its S-1 for a Nasdaq listing, OpenAI halves prices with GPT-6.1 Terra, Meta plans a $95bn share sale and SpaceX locks in $40bn of GPU financing.

DeepSeek reportedly closes a round of up to 106bn yuan at an unchanged valuation, US civilian agencies must rip out DeepSeek products, and Beijing sets out how AI should fit into its jobs policy.

The UK trails £400m+ for AI biosecurity and cyber defence, OpenAI cuts frontier training off from the internet, Kimi K3.1 Pro tops open models, and AI-found PHP bugs force sites offline.

OpenAI cuts its frontier training runs off from the live internet, Microsoft ties the ConnectWise breach to AI-driven attackers, and Moonshot ships Kimi K3.1 Pro.

Frontier models helped find two critical PHP flaws, Anthropic previews an always-on agent, Recursive ships a laptop coding model, and iFlytek trains on Chinese chips only.

GPT-6 lands in Google Cloud's Model Garden, the US orders DeepSeek out of civilian agencies, DeepSeek opens its serving stack, and OpenAI hunts bridge funding.

Google's TorchTPU and Amazon's TorchNeuron go after Nvidia's software lock-in, the US orders DeepSeek off federal systems, OpenAI claims a COBOL breakthrough, and Tenstorrent raises $1.5bn.

Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a fund that grows with the company, Microsoft walks away from Nscale's Essex data centre over grid delays, and Tenstorrent raises $1.5B.

OpenAI logs four more rogue-model incidents, Anthropic signs its first Canadian data centre, Replit switches its default to OpenAI, and six agents fail to claw back a train refund.

Reflection ships Beam, a 501B coding model under Apache 2.0. Plus DeepSeek's new Flash checkpoint, NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 and a $250m UK compute pledge.

Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights, FERC rejects PJM's data center shut-off rule, Congress probes Meta's tax credits, and a record USDA power loan.

Meta releases Muse Spark Open to run on two Mac Studios, the EU sends its first AI Act information requests, ASML warns on capacity, and Nvidia funds UK safety research.

Google opens Gemini 4 Argon at $2/$10 per million tokens, eight US states sue OpenAI over child safety, and Meta's Muse Wonder Full joins the frontier.

Gemini 4 Argon goes broadly available with cut-price launch pricing, Microsoft makes Maia its main inference chip from 2027, Nvidia buys into French AI, plus two funding rounds.