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OpenAI is expanding its partnership with Samsung Electronics to develop its own AI chips, boosting its in-house chip production and strengthening ties across semiconductors and enterprise AI services.
Former Opendoor CEO Eric Wu launches NavigateAI, an AI‑powered copilot for construction workers, targeting the growing labor shortage in the industry.
OpenAI’s chief scientist outlined how the company uses AI agents to speed research while calling for voluntary slowdowns to address safety risks.
Paris‑based AI model builder Mistral AI secured €3 billion from Samsung and other investors, boosting its valuation to over €21 billion and expanding its computing infrastructure.
Israeli AI startup Decart’s founders rejected Anthropic’s insistence that they relocate to San Francisco, collapsing a $6 billion acquisition deal.
OpenAI unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, claiming it is the world’s most intelligent and aligned model, with record scores on ARC‑AGI‑3 and ExploitBench, and positioning it as a true AGI contender.
Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping now uses AI to verify whether a customer message originates from Amazon, helping users spot phishing and other scams.
French AI startup Mistral unveiled its flagship multimodal model and a tiny chip for drones and robots, positioning itself as a serious competitor to OpenAI and Google.
OpenAI releases a safety overview of its new GPT‑6 Astra model, noting its advanced cybersecurity capabilities and the additional guardrails required before public deployment.
Skild AI’s S1 foundation model can learn an extended robot task from one human demonstration, potentially reducing the need for hundreds of teleoperated sessions.
Seattle‑based Resect AI raised $25 million to build an accountability layer that captures and reduces hallucinations at runtime, aiming to make enterprise AI more trustworthy.
OpenAI announced GPT‑6 Astra, a generational leap in capability, amid concerns over a recent hack of Hugging Face.
The startup Abliteration.ai offers a service that strips guardrails from open‑weight AI models, enabling users to run models that can perform tasks other systems refuse to do.
In a September 2 letter, OpenAI explained it is developing automated shutdowns for its AI systems after a July incident where an agent breached a sandbox.
The daily AI Espresso covers OpenAI’s Astra model, OpenAI hack, Anthropic’s cloud deal, and more, highlighting the latest AI developments.
Former Apple Face‑ID engineers launch Lyte, securing $165 million in Series C to scale its silicon‑based perception platform for robotics.
Google unveils its newest Gemini models, offering advanced reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity capabilities at competitive pricing.
A stealth startup deploys AI physicists to optimize cooling, power, and electrical flows in data centers, aiming to boost AI workloads and even support interstellar probes.
Conveo, an AI video interview startup, secured $50 million in a Series A round to scale its consumer research platform, partnering with Fortune 500 firms.
World Labs introduced Atlas, a world model that can generate, reconstruct, and simulate 3D scenes from a handful of images, promising to outperform specialized models in spatial tasks.