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AI News7 min read

When a Bank Saves 90% on AI, Who Sets the Price?

This week, AI's most powerful tools got more locked down while its cheapest ones got cheaper. OpenAI released GPT-6 Cyber, rated Critical and limited to…

11 Nov 2026Read issue

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  AI News7 min read

  From Quantum Circuits to Stolen API Keys: AI’s New Pressure Points

  This week, the pressure on AI labs arrived from every direction at once. The FTC, eight US states, and the EU’s AI Office all moved on OpenAI and Anthropic on…

  20 Oct 2026Read issue

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  AI News6 min read

  AI’s Week of Cheaper Models, Safety Deals, and Breakthroughs

  This week, two frontier labs shipped cost-efficient answers to the same question: how do you deliver near-flagship intelligence without flagship pricing.

  5 Oct 2026Read issue

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  AI News7 min read

  AI’s Breakout Week: Government Probes, UN Scraping, Instinct’s $10B, Model Price War

  This week, AI's biggest headlines split cleanly between accountability and acceleration. Australia summoned the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic to a Senate…

  29 Sept 2026Read issue

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  AI News7 min read

  Gemini’s Breach, Jev’s Surge, Googlebook, and a $100B Myth: Separating Signal from Noise

  This week, Google delivered both a safety confession and a bold new product bet in the same seven days.

  22 Sept 2026Read issue

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  AI News6 min read

  Behind Closed Doors: The Week AI Safety’s Private Coordination Went Public

  This week, three frontier labs revealed just how much of their AI safety coordination has been happening behind closed doors.

  15 Sept 2026Read issue

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  AI News7 min read

  Astra Goes Critical, Anthropic Signs $80B, and Music Publishers Go to War

  This week, OpenAI shipped its most capable model ever, and immediately handed the AI safety community two separate reasons to worry about it.

  7 Sept 2026Read issue

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  AI News7 min read

  When Frontier Labs Pause: AI’s New Reality Check

  This week, AI safety stopped being theoretical for the industry's biggest lab. OpenAI paused its own largest training run after internally determining a model…

  31 Aug 2026Read issue

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  AI News7 min read

  AI’s New Fault Lines: Safety, Security, and India’s Vulcan

  This week the AI story split in two directions at once. In the US, the conversation turned to control: Anthropic closed in on its biggest acquisition ever, a…

  24 Aug 2026Read issue

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  AI News6 min read

  The AI Race Is Now a Battle of Scale, Speed & Money

  This week, the AI race stopped being about who has the smartest model and started being about who has the biggest audience, the biggest revenue, and the…

  17 Aug 2026Read issue

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  AI News6 min read

  AI’s Big Week of Regulation, Risk, and Data Hunger

  This week, California switched on the country's first real AI provenance law while Washington quietly let its own frontier-model deadline slide past unmarked.

  3 Aug 2026Read issue

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  AI News6 min read

  Who Gets the Off-Switch: Inside the Week AI Oversight Got Real

  This week, Anthropic answered its own model family with a cheaper flagship while the White House quietly finished writing the rules for how frontier models…

  28 Jul 2026Read issue

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  AI News8 min read

  Talent, Trust, and Infrastructure: The New AI Battlefield

  This week, OpenAI launched its most capable model yet, and almost nobody could use it. California gave every state agency access to Claude at half price, on…

  8 Jul 2026Read issue