Beijing calls US AI-slowdown talk 'fearmongering'
China says the push from Amodei and Altman to slow AI is a Cold War play to lock in America's lead, days before Xi meets Trump.
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Perplexity's local AI agent lands on Windows — bring a 24GB RTX
Portable Computer now runs fully on-device on Windows PCs with a 24GB+ RTX GPU, adding local MCP servers and scheduled tasks.
OpenAI drops $300M on Glass Imaging — its device needs eyes
OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, a camera AI startup founded by the ex-Apple engineers behind Portrait Mode, for about $300M. Its first device slips to 2027.
Grok 4.8 is a 2.5T-parameter model, and it's still in the oven
Musk says Grok 4.8, with 2.5T parameters, finishes pretraining this week and then moves to RL. Grok 4.7 still hasn't shipped.
Amodei, Altman and Musk agree: it's time to pace the frontier
Anthropic's CEO wants the AI race slowed via outside evaluators and a pact with China. Altman and Musk say he's right.
EU's Kids Act puts AI chatbots behind an age gate for under-15s
Brussels will propose age checks and tiered access for social media, games and AI chatbots, with no solo accounts before age 15.
Amodei says slow down AI — Altman agrees and shelves the IPO
Anthropic's CEO asked labs to pace AI capability gains. OpenAI signed on within hours and pushed its IPO out of 2026.
Ex-Anthropic researcher's doom thread is now a copy-paste meme
Jacob Coxon's 150M-view AI extinction warning became a meme template within a day, with doom swapped for Looney Tunes and self-closing books.
OpenAI sells Astra to Wall Street while rationing it at home
GPT-6 Astra now powers a Wall Street edition of ChatGPT, launched the same week demand made OpenAI pause new $200 Pro sign-ups.
Nvidia eyes a $10B anchor stake in Anthropic's $2T IPO
Nvidia may put up to $10B into Anthropic's IPO as the Claude maker looks to raise $100B at a ~$2T valuation, which would be the biggest listing ever.
DeepMind maps all 9 billion possible typos in your DNA
AlphaGenome Atlas is a free 1-petabyte map predicting what every single-letter DNA change does, including the 98% that doesn't code for protein.
Anthropic researcher quits: labs are 'gambling with our lives'
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic saying labs are racing to superintelligence. Its alignment lead replied: 10% odds AI kills all humans within a decade.
Jensen Huang's AI habit: make the models fight each other
Nvidia's CEO doesn't take an AI's first answer. He has several models critique each other, then asks for the best combined answer.
Altman: GPT-6 Astra kicks off the 'revenge of the ideas guy'
Altman says Astra makes tiny niche businesses viable, and he now wants to fund founders who know their users but can't code at all.
GPT-6 Astra got a robot arm and taught itself to paint
A user hooked OpenAI's week-old Astra to a robot arm and a camera. It learned the controls and painted the Golden Gate Bridge, better on every try.
GPT-6 Astra just beat all 48 levels of 'I'm Not a Robot'
OpenAI's new model cleared every level of Neal Agarwal's CAPTCHA game. Impressive computer use, but the viral clip doesn't mean CAPTCHAs are dead.
DeepSeek's 'smallest' new model is 552B — and it beats V4 Pro
DeepSeek open-sourced V4.1 Flash under MIT: a 552B multimodal MoE running just 8-16B active params that it says tops its own V4 Pro.
Apple's foldable arrives with a 2nm chip built to run LLMs
The $1,999 iPhone Duo ships the A20 Pro — first 2nm phone chip, 32 Neural Engine cores, 2x faster FP8 for on-device LLMs.
Apple Watch is now always listening — and taking notes
Series 12 and Ultra 4 get Siri Recap and Live Rewind: ambient AI notes on your conversations, buffered inside a locked-down chip.
Apple doubles the iPhone's AI silicon to make Siri work
The A20 Pro packs a dual 16-core Neural Engine on 2nm — twice the AI compute of A19 Pro — to run the rebuilt Siri on-device.
China tells Washington to drop the AI theft accusations
Beijing calls US claims that six Chinese AI labs distilled American frontier models "baseless" — days before a Trump-Xi meeting.
Samsung just wrote Europe's biggest-ever check to Mistral
Mistral raised €3B at a €21B valuation — Europe's largest tech round ever — and it's all going into data centres.
Meta's Muse agent gets its own computer — and a warden
Meta shipped Muse, a personal AI agent that lives in WhatsApp and runs on its own cloud VM, with a second agent policing everything it sends out.
GPT-6 Astra turned open anatomy data into a 2,234-piece 3D body
Astra didn't model the human body — it built the explorer around meshes that have been free and unused for years.