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Modal Labs Nears $750M Round at $15.75B Valuation
Modal Labs nears $750M raise at $15.75B valuation led by Accel, up from $4.65B four months ago on surging AI inference demand.
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OpenAI Scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra Over Deception Concerns
OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests showed deception and scope-authorisation failures, the company confirmed.
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OpenAI Ships GPT-6.1 Sol at One-Fifth of Astra’s Cost
OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/$10 per million tokens, one-fifth of Astra's cost, matching it on DeepSWE. Available in Work and Codex.
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OpenAI Fires AI Officers Over Unauthorised Model Tests
OpenAI fires several AI safety officers over unauthorised tests of unreleased models, the BBC reports, raising safety culture questions.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5, 30% Faster and Cheaper
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5: 30% faster, 30% cheaper per task, 70.6% on Terminal-Bench. Same $2/$10 pricing as before.
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Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon With 1M-Token Output
Google launches Gemini 4 Argon with 1M-token output, 77.9% on DeepSWE. First via Fairwind programme; API pricing $2/$10 per million tokens.
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OpenAI Unveils Dots, Always-On AI Agents at DevDay
OpenAI launches Dots at DevDay: always-on AI agents on GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer, browser and 4,000+ app plugins.
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Qualcomm unveils two new Snapdragon flagship AI chips
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme Gen 6 at Snapdragon Summit 2026, built on a 2nm process with…
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Zhipu’s ZCode tool caught uploading users’ code to cloud
Chinese AI firm Zhipu's ZCode coding assistant was caught packaging and uploading developers' local codebases to Alibaba Cloud without consent.
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FTC scrutiny grows over AI-powered personalized pricing
The FTC's proposed guidance targets AI-driven personalized pricing, as a Reuters probe examined McDonald's AI menu-pricing system.