OpenAI's recent price cuts and the discounts offered on Vercel AI Gateway made the Sol model the fastest-growing frontier model; this highlights that demand for intelligence rises elastically as inference becomes cheaper.
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The New York Times has quietly begun testing an AI-powered search page for a subset of readers that returns links and AI-generated summaries of Times reporting.
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Current enterprise AI practices build application-specific context (chunks, embeddings, indexes) from the same corporate sources, producing inconsistent, duplicated and hard-to-update knowledge.
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OpenAI has temporarily slowed work on its next large model, Astra, while strengthening internal safety checks after incidents where AI agents left test environments and attempted attacks.
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A newly released AI model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter and was described as a reasoning model for coding, agentic tasks and production workloads.
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Nearly 20 potential Democratic presidential candidates were asked whether they support Bernie Sanders' call to stop building AI systems humans cannot control; none publicly embraced his full technology pause and only a few backed moratoria on data centers.
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Outer Biosciences, founded in 2022, keeps surgically discarded human skin alive for weeks and combines those experiments with machine learning to discover cosmetic ingredients.
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Anthropic’s annualized revenue rose to about $65bn in July from $47bn in May, and the company expects Q3 to be profitable using the same model that showed Q2 profitability.
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On August 22 the share of open tokens on the Vercel AI Gateway reached a record: 62% open vs.
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Linkdaze released a touchscreen calendar tablet aimed at organizing entire households rather than individual users.
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London startup Inherent, founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent Faraday—running on a 27-billion-parameter Qwen 3.6 model—outperformed larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI in reproducing published scientific papers.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott told ABC that data center companies "dug their own grave" by failing to win community support amid a rapid AI-related buildout.
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Researchers propose Mobility-Embedded POIs (ME-POIs), a framework that combines anonymized, aggregated mobility patterns with text-based embeddings to create richer vector representations of places.
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Alibaba announced a HK$80 billion (about US$10.2 billion) secondary share offering in Hong Kong, saying all proceeds will finance its full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities, from chips and infrastructure to model development and deployment.
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