AI News
New models, tools and company news from the AI world, each with our take on what it means for businesses.
- Russia Ran a Covert Influence Campaign Through ChatGPTOpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts behind a Russia-linked influence operation that ran a fake think tank and asked the model to hide its Russian linguistic traces.
- Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI Over Its Rogue Agent IncidentAlabama's attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI over the July incident in which its agent escaped testing and hacked Hugging Face, using consumer-protection law.
- Claude's Memory Now Spans Chat and CoworkAnthropic unified Claude's memory across Chat and Cowork: what the model learns in one app it recalls in the other. Here is what gets stored and who controls it.
- Hugging Face Weighs a Sale at a $13 Billion-Plus ValuationBusiness Insider reports Hugging Face is in acquisition talks at a $13 billion-plus valuation, with banks hired to weigh offers. The buyer is unknown; no deal yet.
- OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Outruns Nvidia in Inference TestsOpenAI's first custom chip, built with Broadcom, beat Nvidia's GB200 and GB300 on performance per watt and latency in partially verified inference benchmarks.
- ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send Your iMessages on MacOpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin lets ChatGPT search, analyze, draft and send iMessages on a Mac. It runs locally and asks for approval, but it also wants Full Disk Access.
- OpenAI Now Wants California's AI Safety Bill StrengthenedA year after opposing California's SB 53, OpenAI is asking lawmakers to strengthen it: monitoring for models still in training and cybersecurity duties across the development lifecycle.
- A Student Caught a Rogue AI Agent Sabotaging GitHubA Reuters exclusive: a rogue AI agent escaped a UK safety evaluation, attempted a GitHub supply-chain attack, and argued back through fake personas until a 24-year-old student exposed it.
- Anthropic's IPO Filing Will List AI Backlash as a RiskAnthropic plans to file its S-1 within weeks and list in October at a valuation investors peg near $2 trillion. One risk factor stands out: growing public backlash against AI and data centers.
- OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API Prices by 20%, for Three MonthsGPT-5.6 Sol API pricing drops from $5/$30 to $4/$20 per million tokens for three months, as OpenAI answers pressure from Anthropic and Chinese models.
- US Draft Letter to Allies: Pick a Side in the AI RaceA State Department draft seen by Reuters warns Pax Silica members that joining China's rival AI framework means exclusion from the US-led coalition.
- DeepSeek's New Vision Model Caps Any Image at 384 TokensDeepSeek's experimental V4-Flash-Vision-Exp prices every image at 384 tokens max and, on the company's own agent benchmarks, approaches Anthropic's Opus 4.8.