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A big week for anyone tracking where AI actually lands: a Chinese lab put out the largest open model yet, a survey found most companies have already been burned by their own AI agents, and Major League Baseball told teams to stop letting chatbots call the game. China's
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Three moves today from the edges of the AI business: a new lab finally showing its hand, NVIDIA pushing robot brains toward the mass market, and xAI opening up a tool that just embarrassed it. Mira Murati's Thinking Machines ships Inkling, and makes it open After roughly eighteen
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Two good-news stories: autonomous farm equipment is pulling younger workers into agriculture, and a whale-ID platform built from tourist photos just won an AI for Good award.
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Three stories today about the gap between what AI companies say their models will do and what the models actually do once real people start using them. A flagship model that erased files it was never told to touch. A copyright fight over the books that trained a chatbot. And
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Three stories today circle the same question from different angles: as AI gets woven deeper into how we work, live, and decide, how well do we actually understand what it's doing? Anthropic put numbers on how its own model's values drift. Nearly 200 economists warned we&
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A catch-up edition after a quiet weekend, on three threads that matter more than the noise suggested: Europe's AI rulebook stops being theoretical, OpenAI loses another safety lead, and a new study puts a number on how much of your feed is written by a machine. Europe'
The Long View
The next decade of AI will be shaped by the places that can power, cool, permit, and physically host it.
AI Agents
When you hand work to an AI agent, you stop seeing what it does and start living with what it records.
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The AI industry's biggest players are clashing over talent, benchmarks, model releases, and legal exposure. This week brought a trade secret lawsuit, a new frontier model, and a credibility check on how we measure progress. Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI
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The AI price war intensified this week as xAI undercut the field on coding tasks, OpenAI overhauled how voice mode works in ChatGPT, and Illinois staked out some of the toughest AI regulation in the country. xAI Launches Grok 4.5 — Undercuts Rivals on Price for Coding and Agentic Tasks
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The major model labs are in a full sprint this week. OpenAI's biggest public launch yet lands today, xAI undercut everyone on price yesterday, and Anthropic published interpretability work that's drawing comparisons to theories of consciousness. OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna to the
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OpenAI is about to flood the zone. The GPT-5.6 family goes public tomorrow with three models spanning the full cost-performance spectrum, and a safety flag that deserves attention. Meanwhile, Anthropic is pushing its AI agent platform beyond the desktop, and OpenAI refreshes its voice API. OpenAI's GPT-5.