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Europe's AI companies have publicly broken ranks with the US frontier labs' call to slow down, and they are not being polite about it. Mistral, the region's leading AI developer, accuses US incumbents of using the safety moment to "consolidate their market position", while Proton's chief operating officer…
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A Beijing startup called Naive AI has been valued at more than $1.4bn without releasing a model anyone can download. Founded in February by a Tsinghua University professor, the company has raised $400m across three funding rounds, with Tencent among the investors, and its first large language model…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic appears to be preparing to let Claude read your bank account. Leaked screenshots of the Claude app for iOS show an unannounced feature, reportedly called Claude Money, that invites people to link their bank accounts and ask the assistant about spending and financial plans. Nothing is confirmed…
DeepSeek Watch
DeepSeek open-sourced its agent execution framework, DeepSeek Harness, on 13 August, and per a 36Kr analysis published on 18 September it picked up nearly 100,000 GitHub stars within two days of its public open beta. The framework runs on a tidy equation, 'Model + Harness = Agent', with…
Meta AI Watch
Meta is taking another set of manual controls off advertisers' desks. The option to exclude individual placements at the ad set level, the switch that kept ads off mobile, desktop, iPhone or Android when a campaign did not suit them, is disappearing from Ads Manager. It has already…
Mistral AI Watch
Mistral AI has publicly denied a claim of unauthorised access to its systems. In a statement issued on Friday morning, the French AI lab said it examined the allegation, found no evidence to support it, and can confirm its systems have not been compromised. The statement is short…
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Johns Hopkins University convened an evening on AI governance in Washington on Monday, and the exchange did something the week's op-ed war has not: it put an OpenAI executive, two prominent governance scholars and one very large demand on the same stage. The demand is that AI developers…
NVIDIA Watch
Huawei has pulled forward the launch of its next generation of AI chips, with the Ascend 960DT now planned for early 2027, roughly three quarters earlier than previously expected, and the 960PR following in the third quarter of that year. Nvidia's shares gained about 2.5% to $219.24 on…
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China's AI models may be winning users by the million, but they are earning a tenth of what OpenAI and Anthropic make combined, according to estimates the Rhodium Group published on Thursday. The sharper point sits in the valuations: the research firm thinks investors are paying far more…
xAI Watch
xAI has ended its Galaxy event in San Francisco with three enterprise launches built around one idea: AI agents that do the work rather than merely answer questions. The sharpest number of the day is a Voice Agent API priced at $0.08 per minute for speech-to-speech processing, a…
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Interactive practice is the part of digital learning everyone praises and nobody has time to build. Google Research has decided the supply problem is the thing to attack. On Thursday it published work on a system that turns a teacher's request into a custom, game-style learning simulation, and…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has published its first set of measurements for tracking how fast frontier AI development actually moves, complete with a snapshot of its own numbers. The lab asking the industry to slow down has just handed the debate its first ruler. The post appeared on Anthropic's site on…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI has launched Astra for Law, a legal-industry edition of its GPT-6 Astra model, complete with a purpose-built legal search index, confidentiality controls and a partner list that reads like a legal awards dinner. It is a full-stack play for a single profession, and it arrives with numbers…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has opened applications for its Life Sciences Verification Program, a beta giving verified life science professionals access to Mythos, Opus and Sonnet models with safeguards the company describes as more permissive for biology-related work. Dozens of organisations are already in through early access, and Anthropic expects to…
AWS AI Watch
MRH Trowe, one of Germany's leading commercial and industrial insurance brokers, has handed self-service AI agents to about 400 employees, and the first month of production cost roughly $14 per seat. The number turns heads. The quietly impressive part is that a firm bound by German financial-sector rules…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has opened its own telemetry to the light, analysing 40,093 Copilot Studio agents across nearly 2,000 corporate tenants, and the result is the sharpest first-party picture yet of where enterprises actually put AI agents to work. The main event is unglamorous: productivity still dominates. The movement worth…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has published a first-person attack on Anthropic's Claude constitution. He says the lab is not watching mysterious emergence. It is training Claude to treat its own consciousness and moral status as a live question, and he argues that makes the model harder to…
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JD Vance has dismissed calls for global regulation of AI safety risks, telling the companies building the most advanced models: 'If you're building Frankenstein, stop.' Speaking at an AI summit in Los Angeles, the US vice-president aimed the remark at Dario Amodei, and in doing so split from…
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King Charles will sit down with senior figures from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind on Thursday and tell them the wider world is 'anxiously seeking your reassurance that we will not lose control of our destiny'. The line comes from his prepared remarks, released in advance of…
