Matt Shumer’s hands-on GPT-6 Astra review: everyday engineering, computer use, ambitious game-world experiments, and the Manager Loop coordination setup.

CEO Tom Conrad on cleaning up Sonos’ app redesign mess and turning a speaker company into a software platform.

OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki.

Update: A day later, GPT-6 Astra is rolling out to Business and Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plan....

Nscale, a cloud computing firm focused on artificial intelligence, is in talks with potential investors to raise as much as $3.5 billion in financing ahead of a planned initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

An artificial intelligence startup is attempting to wrest away a vast trove of Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc.’s business records from Google LLC.

The probe comes as new reports suggest the breach by autonomous artificial intelligence models went even further than first disclosed.

The cat is out of the bag.

Publishers and authors are suing Microsoft and OpenAI on copyright grounds.

Negotiators offered access to advanced AI hardware to help secure a preliminary agreement last year to end decades of conflict, the latest example of chip diplomacy.

The downround, which marks a nearly 70% correction from Slice’s earlier valuation, comes after funding talks with Accel, Elevation Capital and Peak XV Partners, as reported by Moneycontrol, failed to materialise.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.K.'s National Crime Agency and Crown Prosecutor signed a memorandum to cooperate on cases involving Southeast Asian scam operations.

A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

John Borthwick’s venture firm wrote the first check Hugging Face ever received, and now owns a stake that could be worth $650 million. Other early investors also did handsomely.

Would you pay top dollar for the very best AI model, or much less for one that’s six months behind? Former Google China chief Kai-Fu Lee thinks that tradeoff could give Chinese AI a global edge

How we think about the “wiki incident,” where our agents wrote to several internet sites: it’s past time for us to define standards for when and how we share misalignment incidents, not just misal…

Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country.