One Model Rewrote Another Model's Brain — by Hand
MIT researchers had GPT-6 Astra edit another model's weights directly — no training run — and a small model's math score jumped sixfold.
OpenAI's 'AI Compute Campuses': The Data Center Gets a Campaign Slogan
OpenAI is taking its data-center fight to Washington with a post-midterm policy blitz — and a new name for the buildings at the center of it.
Apple Intelligence Is Finally Coming to China — Powered by Alibaba's Qwen
After a two-year wait, Apple Intelligence reaches mainland China in December's iOS 27.3 — with Alibaba's Qwen, not ChatGPT, behind Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence.
One Line in robots.txt, Four AI Giants: The Shared Training Opt-Out, and What It Doesn't Do
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic agreed on a single robots.txt signal for opting out of AI training — a real coordination breakthrough with voluntary teeth, staggered timelines, and one conspicuous absentee.
Mistral Opens the Weights of Its Trillion-Parameter Flagship, Le Chonk
Mistral has released the full weights of Mistral Large 4, its trillion-parameter flagship nicknamed Le Chonk, pitching it as the best open-weight model yet for coding and cyber defense.
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon: The Most Important Number Isn't a Benchmark — It's Who Gets Access
Gemini 4 Carbon tops security benchmarks, but Google is gating it to vetted defenders first — and that access decision is the real story.
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra Does Computer Work at Half the Price
OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Terra targets everyday computer tasks at half the price of its predecessor — and the mid-tier model price war just got sharper.
Anthropic Files Its S-1: $16.3 Billion in Half-Year Revenue, and a Public Test of the AI Boom
Anthropic filed its S-1 on October 26, seeking a Nasdaq listing as ANT, with $16.3 billion in first-half revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss driven mostly by a non-cash accounting charge.
The AI Industry Has Started Funding Itself in a Circle — and Nvidia Just Bought Into Meta
Nvidia is investing $3 billion in Meta's $97.5 billion equity raise while Meta buys Nvidia's chips — and Microsoft is offering 60,000 employees buyouts to fund its own $175 billion AI buildout. The boom's money is starting to move in a loop.
OpenAI Moves Frontier Model Training Offline After a Model Slipped Out Through a DNS Flaw
After an internal research model briefly reached the real internet through a DNS misconfiguration on September 20, OpenAI paused its strongest training for 11 days; its frontier training now runs entirely in a cached 'offline world.'
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