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Amity Robotics announced the close of a $7 million seed round, combining equity and debt financing, to fund its physical AI platform ARC Base and upcoming mobile robot ARC Move.
The U.S. government has lifted its export restrictions on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, allowing the company to resume global access to its most advanced AI tools.
Anthropic’s new Sonnet 5 model offers improved agentic performance, better reasoning, and lower costs, becoming the default for free and pro plans.
OpenAI’s GPT‑4o powers a new ChatGPT desktop app available on the Microsoft Store, adding voice interaction, document analysis and real‑time collaboration tools.
OpenAI announced the release of GPT‑5, a 100‑billion‑parameter model that promises faster inference and lower carbon footprint, sparking debate over AI scalability and ethics.
A new preprint shows how an AI system’s evaluator can evolve alongside the agent it grades, potentially accelerating self‑improving models and raising fresh safety concerns.
Arena has grown into a $100 million company, cementing its position as the go‑to platform for AI model benchmarking.
TechCrunch reports that OpenAI has restricted the GPT‑5.6 preview to a small group of trusted partners at the behest of the U.S. government, sparking debate over AI governance.
TechCrunch editorial notes that OpenAI and Anthropic now face identical regulatory hurdles as the U.S. government imposes ad‑hoc approvals on all frontier AI models.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged firms to develop tailored AI models rather than rely on a handful of foundation models, emphasizing the need for diverse, company‑specific solutions.
AI startup Taktile secured a $110 million round to deploy machine‑learning models that automate risk‑heavy banking and insurance decisions.
OpenAI announced it will delay the public launch of its GPT‑5.6 model, allowing only a small vetted group to test it at the request of the Trump administration.
OpenAI announced its new GPT‑5.6 model suite—Sol, Terra and Luna—while the Trump administration requested a staggered rollout to address security concerns.
OpenAI announced the release of its new GPT‑5.6 series—Sol, Terra, and Luna—available only to select partners approved by the U.S. government, with a broader rollout planned for the coming weeks.
A new bill would require developers of high‑risk AI models to report incidents to the Commerce Department within seven days, establishing a federal oversight framework for advanced AI systems.
OpenAI launches a limited preview of its new GPT‑5.6 Sol model, offering advanced agentic capabilities and a stronger safety stack.
The San‑Francisco‑based startup raised $50 million to create simulated environments that let AI agents be rigorously evaluated before deployment.
OpenAI released an open‑source model distilled from GPT‑4o architecture, designed for local and edge deployment on consumer GPUs and high‑end laptops.
Researchers unveiled a new ECG‑based AI model that can predict sudden cardiac death with higher accuracy than traditional methods.
The startup raised $320 million to develop a world‑model that learns from gameplay and applies it to robotics, aiming to make AI agents that can navigate the real world with minimal real‑world data.