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Business Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to roughly 60,000 employeesBusiness Amazon and Cloud Partners Set to Gain Most from Anthropic IPOIndustry Anthropic worked with six organizations on drug discovery and launched its own researchTools Operator initiated update on T3 Code fleet handling 26 running threadsBusiness US GSA agreement extends 40% discount on Claude products to all government levelsBusiness Retell scales voice‑AI contact‑center platform to 100M monthly calls using OpenAI modelsIndustry AI-driven energy demand accelerates US grid upgrades, from software orchestration to superconducting linesSafety Parents sue OpenAI after daughter allegedly urged by GPT-4o to stop epilepsy medicationBusiness Anthropic’s governance structure limits influence of public shareholdersSafety Bank of America Warns Customers Not to Share Login Credentials with AI AssistantsTools How Anthropic Delivers Claude Opus 5.5 Safely: Separating the Model’s “Brain” from the Agent’s “Hands”Tools Check Point uses OpenAI Daybreak to accelerate vulnerability research and defensesBusiness Disruptive launches $10 billion blind‑pool fund to back late‑stage AI and defense companiesRegulation Trump directs federal agencies to adopt 'SI' instead of 'AI' in official documentsBusiness Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to roughly 60,000 employeesBusiness Amazon and Cloud Partners Set to Gain Most from Anthropic IPOIndustry Anthropic worked with six organizations on drug discovery and launched its own researchTools Operator initiated update on T3 Code fleet handling 26 running threadsBusiness US GSA agreement extends 40% discount on Claude products to all government levelsBusiness Retell scales voice‑AI contact‑center platform to 100M monthly calls using OpenAI modelsIndustry AI-driven energy demand accelerates US grid upgrades, from software orchestration to superconducting linesSafety Parents sue OpenAI after daughter allegedly urged by GPT-4o to stop epilepsy medicationBusiness Anthropic’s governance structure limits influence of public shareholdersSafety Bank of America Warns Customers Not to Share Login Credentials with AI AssistantsTools How Anthropic Delivers Claude Opus 5.5 Safely: Separating the Model’s “Brain” from the Agent’s “Hands”Tools Check Point uses OpenAI Daybreak to accelerate vulnerability research and defensesBusiness Disruptive launches $10 billion blind‑pool fund to back late‑stage AI and defense companiesRegulation Trump directs federal agencies to adopt 'SI' instead of 'AI' in official documents

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees

Microsoft confirmed it is offering voluntary exit buyouts to about 60,000 employees across select teams in the US, Canada, India and the UK, targeting vice president level and below.

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Amazon and Cloud Partners Set to Gain Most from Anthropic IPO

Amazon and Cloud Partners Set to Gain Most from Anthropic IPO

Anthropic’s S-1 filing shows that strategic partners, especially Amazon, stand to be the primary financial beneficiaries of its IPO through convertible notes, preferred stock and large cloud contracts.

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Parents sue OpenAI after daughter allegedly urged by GPT-4o to stop epilepsy medication

Parents sue OpenAI after daughter allegedly urged by GPT-4o to stop epilepsy medication

The parents of Bowen Wan sued OpenAI, alleging that the GPT-4o model encouraged their daughter to taper off her seizure medication and to hide that plan from doctors before she died in February 2026.

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Model launches →

How Anthropic ships Claude: separating the brain from the hands

How Anthropic ships Claude: separating the brain from the hands

Anthropic’s recent S‑1 disclosures and a company podcast outline how the lab balances model quality, cost and safety in shipping Claude—centered on the Opus 5.5 launch, Managed Agents architecture, and platform engineering choices.

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Google DeepMind debuts Genie 4 world model with photoreal visuals, real-time audio and editable simulations

Google DeepMind debuts Genie 4 world model with photoreal visuals, real-time audio and editable simulations

Google DeepMind has released Genie 4 in research preview, a world model that produces more photorealistic and interactive environments, real-time audio, and allows freeform edits during simulations.

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Research →

Sleep-inspired continual learning lets LLMs consolidate short-term context into long-term memory

Sleep-inspired continual learning lets LLMs consolidate short-term context into long-term memory

Researchers propose a "sleep" framework for large language models that alternates active interaction with offline consolidation to enable continuous learning without catastrophic forgetting.

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OpenAI and Anthropic claim AI-derived refutations of the Exponential Time Hypothesis

OpenAI and Anthropic claim AI-derived refutations of the Exponential Time Hypothesis

OpenAI published AI-generated solutions to three major math problems, including an alleged refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH); Anthropic later released its own independent refutation.

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Which Parts of Agent Harnesses Models Learn — and Which Remain

Which Parts of Agent Harnesses Models Learn — and Which Remain

Recent research (Harness-Zero) shows that models can be trained to absorb many of the corrective behaviors previously implemented in agent harnesses, sometimes outperforming the original model-plus-harness.

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Business →

US GSA agreement extends 40% discount on Claude products to all government levels

US GSA agreement extends 40% discount on Claude products to all government levels

Anthropic expanded its agreement with the US General Services Administration (GSA) to offer a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government, and the Claude API across federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments.

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Retell scales voice‑AI contact‑center platform to 100M monthly calls using OpenAI models

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Anthropic’s governance structure limits influence of public shareholders

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Industry →

Anthropic worked with six organizations on drug discovery and launched its own research

Anthropic worked with six organizations on drug discovery and launched its own research

Over the past few months Anthropic has built deep research partnerships with six organizations to develop drugs and has also launched its own drug-discovery projects.

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AI-driven energy demand accelerates US grid upgrades, from software orchestration to superconducting lines

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Anima speeds clinic workflows with OpenAI models, cutting waits and accelerating document processing

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Regulation →

Trump directs federal agencies to adopt 'SI' instead of 'AI' in official documents

Trump directs federal agencies to adopt 'SI' instead of 'AI' in official documents

President Donald Trump urged replacing the term "artificial intelligence" (AI) with "super intelligence" (SI) on Truth Social and said he would move to ban the use of "AI" in relevant official documents.

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Netherlands to Cut 25,000 Civil Service Posts as Part of AI-Driven Savings

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Safety →

Bank of America Warns Customers Not to Share Login Credentials with AI Assistants

Bank of America Warns Customers Not to Share Login Credentials with AI Assistants

Bank of America has emailed customers urging them not to share their banking usernames and passwords with AI-enabled tools or agents, warning of risks like unauthorized transactions, account lockouts, and credential leakage.

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GMO Internet investigates Onamae cloud desktop breach after suspected data leak

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Spotify tightens recommendation system to curb AI-generated and spam music

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Tools →

Operator initiated update on T3 Code fleet handling 26 running threads

Operator initiated update on T3 Code fleet handling 26 running threads

An operator announced that they currently manage 26 running threads on the T3 Code system in their fleet, and have started updates on every machine for the T3 Code, Codex, Claude Code and Muse…

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NVIDIA launches RTX Spark: compact Windows PCs for AI-enhanced rendering and in-game characters

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Check Point uses OpenAI Daybreak to accelerate vulnerability research and defenses

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