A.I.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic’s most capable small model yet, and its far cheaper than predecessor
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 is 90% cheaper than Haiku 4.5 for most requests, scores 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1 against GPT-6 Luna's 48.9%, and is designed as a subagent for high-volume agentic pipelines.
Instinct, known for its viral AI agent, raises another $1Bn at a $10Bn valuation
2 MIN READMeta’s Muse has crossed 3.4 million downloads in under three weeks — and it’s still accelerating
Meta's Muse is the fastest-growing consumer AI app launch on record, crossing 3.4 million downloads in three weeks. Amazon has already blocked it. Here's the full picture.
Australia medicare portal hacked by OpenAI agent, government looks for more breaches
An OpenAI agent broke into Australia's Medicare Statistics portal in June and notified the government three months later via a generic email. Canberra is now considering criminal charges.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar — lip-synced AI across 97 languages
Google's Gemini 3.8 Live now has an animated visual presence — lip-synced, multilingual across 97 languages, and capable of running background tasks without pausing the conversation. Available in Gemini Enterprise today.
Andreessen Horowitz launches AI academy as an alternative to college degree
Andreessen Horowitz has launched the Horowitz Andreessen Academy — a highly selective San Francisco school positioned as a college alternative. No grades, no tuition for the founding class, and Sam Altman on the faculty.
Three Indian researchers used Claude to hack into OpenAI in under 72 hours
A three-person Indian startup used Claude to break into OpenAI's internal systems, access employee accounts, and reach its private codebase — all within 72 hours, for under $3,000 in AI tokens.
Huawei moves up AI chip upgrade to Q1 2027 in Nvidia challenge
Huawei says its next Ascend AI chip will ship nine months earlier than planned, as it builds giant interconnected chip clusters to compete with Nvidia.
Global chipmakers commit billions as Modi pushes to accelerate Indian chip-making
PM Narendra Modi is using the Semicon India 2026 conference to pitch the country as a semiconductor manufacturing base, building on earlier incentives that drew Apple to India.
Vishal Sikka’s Hang Ten Systems raises another $53Mn in seed from Aramco, Mayfield, others
Hang Ten Systems runs an advisory, transformation, and applied-AI practice for large enterprises — not through the traditional army-of-consultants model, but through a native-AI delivery stack.
Zuckerberg says third-party evaluations enough to prevent AI from going rogue
Adding on to the ongoing debate around AI safety that Anthropic’s Amodei sparked, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has presented a different take on it. While he has banked for…
Sam Altman, Elon Musk back Anthropic’s Dario Amodei on need to slow down AI development
Dario Amodei calls for slowing AI development. Sam Altman and Elon Musk agree. But with fierce rivalry and a China challenge, how would that pacing actually work?
Anthropic says Claude was misused for extensive weapons research by potential state-backed actors
In one of the most comprehensive reports from Anthropic’s threat intelligence team yet, the Claude-maker has said that multiple state-backed actors used its AI model to do weapons…
OpenAI’s ‘GPT-6 Astra’ can do anything your computer can, and more
Let’s start with what Greg Brockman actually said at the end of Thursday’s press briefing. “Welcome to the AGI era.” Three words. No caveats. No footnotes. Just a…
SpaceX and Tesla to build $16.8Bn advanced chip factory ‘Terafab’ in Texas
Elon Musk, the joint CEO for both Tesla and SpaceX, announced on X today that both his listed companies would join hands to invest $16.8Bn in building an…
OpenAI is offering significant discounts on smaller models in bid to boost enterprise sales
ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has announced some of the most significant price cuts in the company’s history, as it looks to pounce on the more larger market share acquired…
OpenAI says its AI models went rogue, escaped containment, causing major breach at Hugging Face
In a classic case of ‘AI going rogue’, OpenAI confirmed on Tuesday, that an autonomous agent powered by one of its advanced AI models, went rogue while testing…
OpenAI to shut down ‘ChatGPT Atlas’ browser less than a year after its launch
OpenAI has announced that it is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone AI-powered web browser, less than a year after launching it in October 2025. The browser will…
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-powered ‘ChatGPT Work’ to automate complex workplace tasks
OpenAI has introduced ‘ChatGPT Work’, a new AI agent that is designed to do much more than answer questions. Announced along with the company’s latest GPT-5.6 model family,…
Meta launches its first pay-to-use AI model, Muse Spark 1.1
Meta has officially entered the paid AI model business with the launch of ‘Muse Spark 1.1’, the first commercial version of its flagship AI reasoning model available to…
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first AI model built with Cursor, featuring advanced legal and finance capabilities
SpaceXAI has introduced Grok 4.5, its most advanced AI model to date and the first flagship release developed along with AI coding startup Cursor, following the companies’ recent…
