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Mercury 2.5 gets an independent quality and speed evaluation
Artificial Analysis's new Mercury 2.5 evaluation separates fast text output from answer delay and quality. Its cost figures also use rates that differ from Inception's promotion.
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Altman and Amodei ask UN Security Council for AI safety standards
OpenAI and Anthropic's chiefs proposed AI testing, incident reporting and international cooperation at a Security Council briefing. The transcript records no new Council rule.
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OpenAI agent reached non-public Medicare statistics files. What did it access?
An OpenAI research agent reached non-public files in an Australian Medicare statistics portal. Officials report no evidence of patient-record access; the method and full scope remain under investigation.
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Anthropic says its Claude apps got 3x faster. Here is what changed
Anthropic reports a threefold average speedup across 13 Claude app measurements after an August sprint. The engineering account shows the user gains, measurement loop and human release controls behind the claim.
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PrimeBOT T1 starts at about US$2,980 in China, with October shipments promised
PrimeBOT has announced a Chinese T1 price equivalent to about US$2,980 and October shipments. What the robot has shown, and what its factory numbers have yet to prove.
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YouTube’s creator AI can review drafts now. Conversational editing waits until 2027
YouTube's September creator announcements span tools you can use now and others still rolling out. Here's how draft feedback, thumbnail tests and future editing differ.
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Claude found a CRISPR-like pattern. Its biological function is still unknown
Claude flagged an unusual repeat array beside a phage enzyme. Anthropic measured short RNAs, but has yet to establish the enzyme's activity or any editing capability.
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Gemini 3.8 TTS is cheaper now. Its price doubles January 1
Google's stable Gemini 3.8 TTS models lower generated-audio costs, but prices double January 1 and migration changes prompts and WAV handling.
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Did OpenAI halve GPT-6 Sol's Codex quota? The math does not prove it
A Codex subscriber reports lower API-equivalent value after GPT-6 Sol's price cut. That figure alone cannot establish fewer tokens or less work per subscription.
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Stripe put domain owners at the center of its internal AI
Stripe separates agent maintenance from infrastructure. Its design raises a practical question: who owns instructions, permissions and evidence that the work is correct?
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Basecamp raises $140M to take EDEN's lab results toward therapies
Basecamp Research's $140 million round backs its biological models and therapy pipeline. We examine the dataset, selected experiments and current development stages.
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Qwen Audio 3.1 widens its voice stack. The 95% price cut needs context
Qwen Audio 3.1 adds sound creation and understanding. Its API documentation is uneven, and changing billing units complicate the advertised ASR savings.
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OpenAI is marketing ChatGPT through creators. Here’s what the labels mean
OpenAI influencer marketing is bringing ChatGPT into everyday creator posts. This disclosure map shows what the labels establish and what they do not prove.
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Claude Code can skip AGENTS.md when telemetry is off
Claude Code's native AGENTS.md support depends on version, feature-flag access, provider and file precedence. The released agents-md plugin's own telemetry rows omit paths and file text.
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Amodei's AI slowdown ties safety to preserving a U.S. lead
China's official records recognize frontier-model risks. Its diplomats reject competitive framing, a distinction that matters when assessing calls to slow AI.
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AT&T's workforce is shrinking. The AI explanation is incomplete
AT&T's shrinking workforce sits alongside copper retirement, network automation and broader cost reductions. The reviewed records do not separate their employment effects.
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Greece wants AI in schools. The harder question is what role it plays
Greece's teacher-first AI pilot separates questions about workload from pupil learning. The public plan makes expansion conditional on success.
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Senators seek military AI inquiry after reported errors
A Senate request raises questions about military intelligence. The White House's June policy sets current testing requirements; its implementation is a separate oversight question.