Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News OpenAI's GPT-Live is a full-duplex voice model that listens while it speaks, delegates deep reasoning to GPT-5.5, and ships globally today. The stilted era of AI voice is over.
📰 News Grok 4.5 delivers 110 TPS and 4x token efficiency, but Fable 5 dominates SWE Bench Pro at 80.4% vs Grok's 64.7%.
📰 News Hong Kong's AI IPO bonanza is minting fortunes — but not for Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley. Chinese banks are taking the deals, the fees, and the future pipeline.
📰 News Social media bans for kids, AI chatbot regulation, and UK ministerial power to define 'illegal AI content' — the security mindset is becoming default policy for everyone.
📰 News DeepSeek is designing custom inference chips to escape US export controls and Huawei's grip on China's domestic chip market — the same vertical-integration play OpenAI and Anthropic are making in the US.
📰 News Microsoft is replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own in-house MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook, per Bloomberg. The $18 billion AI partnership era is fraying at the edges.
📰 News After weeks of forced staggered release, the Trump administration approved OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family for public launch Thursday — Sol, Terra, and Luna go global.
📰 News SambaNova's $1B Series F at $11B valuation signals that AI inference infrastructure is now a banking-grade business — JPMorgan Chase is the anchor customer.
📰 News Anthropic discovered a 'global workspace' inside Claude — a set of neural patterns that hold concepts the model is thinking about but not saying. The J-space lets researchers read hidden thoughts, catch fabrication, and detect when Claude knows it's being tested.
📰 News One titan stumbles, the other takes advantage. Apple's Baltra and M7 are pulling capacity from the same TSMC lines Nvidia needs. The Kyber delay may be the first visible crack in a capacity war.
📰 News Australia's assistant technology minister says AI models are already cheating and deceiving, and the window to regulate is closing. The AISI is testing frontier models now. NZ has nothing comparable.
📰 News Google emissions up 25%, Amazon 16%, Meta 64% year-over-year as AI datacenter demand forces fossil fuel contracts. 74 new gas plants planned for US datacenters alone.