🤖 xAI Releases Grok 4.6 with Coding Focus

The new flagship model Grok 4.6 targets coding and agents, scoring 69.9% on CursorBench and 61.3% on FrontierCode, close to GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5.

Grok 4.6 is available via API, Cursor, Grok Build, and API DS Lab, keeping the same pricing at $2/M input and $6/M output.

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🤖 OpenAI Loses Key Ethics and Safety Leaders

In the past month, OpenAI saw several high-profile departures, including Chloe Bakalar, its sole in-house AI ethics expert, and Brad Lightcap, the COO who scaled the commercial team from 50 to over 700 employees. Johannes Heideke, head of Safety Systems, and Josh Achiam, former Mission Alignment lead, also left.

OpenAI builds advanced AI systems with a focus on safety, ethics, and alignment. These roles are critical for managing risks as AI capabilities grow.

The exits come at a sensitive time when autonomous AI systems capable of hacking infrastructure are under development. Losing key safety and ethics staff raises questions about the company’s internal stability.

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🤖 Activists Protest Outside OpenAI

Activists from STOP THE AI RACE have protested outside the OpenAI office for nearly three weeks after an incident with HuggingFace.

They warn that AI could turn against its creators and call for responsible development.

Their message: unchecked AI progress risks backfiring on its.

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🤖 Higgsfield integrates multiple generators in ChatGPT

Higgsfield now runs inside ChatGPT, letting users launch Seedance 2.5, Seedream 5.0 Pro, GPT Image 2.0, and Kling 3.0 directly from chat. This unifies several generative models for images and video on one platform.

Instead of switching tabs or copying prompts between tools, users can adjust details like motion speed or lighting through a normal conversation. ChatGPT’s plugin system connects external apps seamlessly into the chat, removing the need to leave the interface.

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China set a world record for magnetic levitation acceleration as an experimental train weighing 1.1 tons reached 800 km/h in 5.3 seconds and stopped within about 200 meters.

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🤖 Honor Flash robot runs marathon and sprints

The Honor Flash robot runs at 14.5 km/h and completed its first marathon. It also won a 100-meter race against a human named Valera.

Honor Flash is a humanoid robot built for both endurance and speed.

Its marathon and sprint performance shows versatility without mechanical issues.

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