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OpenAI says human attention is the bottleneck, so it built a system to let agents manage themselves

OpenAI has released Symphony, an open-source specification that transforms task trackers like Linear into a control center for AI agents, allowing them to autonomously process open tickets while ...
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Building AI data centers is becoming a stress test for banks

Major banks are reaching their internal risk limits with multi-billion dollar AI data center loans and are trying to pass on default risks to other investors. A $38 billion loan package for Oracle ...
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China is falling behind in the AI race, according to a US government benchmark

A new report from the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) claims Chinese AI models are losing ground to their US counterparts. The agency recently put the new Chinese open-weight model ...
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GPT-5.5 matches Claude Mythos in cyber attack tests, UK AI Security Institute finds

The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) has tested OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and found it reaches a similar level of cyberattack capability as Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview. GPT-5.5 is only the second model ...
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Big tech's AI spending balloons to $725 billion this year

Google posted standout numbers in its latest quarterly report, with cloud revenue growing 63 percent. Rising prices for memory chips and other components are pushing costs even higher. Even with these ...
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Anthropic's new benchmark claims Claude can match human experts in bioinformatics

With BioMysteryBench, Anthropic wants to show that Claude can solve real bioinformatics problems at an expert level. The results are promising, but come with important caveats. That's why Anthropic ...
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Anthropic reviewing investor offers that would value the company at over $900 billion

Anthropic is reviewing investor offers for a new funding round that would value the AI company at over $900 billion, Bloomberg reports. That would let Anthropic overtake rival OpenAI as the world's ...
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Google rolls out Gemini memory in Europe and wants you to bring your ChatGPT data along

Google is rolling out personalization features for Gemini in Europe. The main one, "Memories," lets Gemini learn from past chats to tailor future responses. It's on by default and can be turned off in ...
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Mistral AI takes on enterprise AI orchestration with Workflows

Mistral AI has rolled out Workflows, an orchestration layer that helps companies turn AI-powered processes into production-ready systems. The tool is now in public preview, with ASML, ABANCA, CMA-CGM, ...
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OpenAI misses revenue targets as Anthropic and Google close in

OpenAI missed internal revenue and user targets for the first quarter of 2026, with fast-growing competition from Google and Anthropic as a key factor. Massive future spending commitments of around ...
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The company with a monopoly on AI's most critical machine is racing to build more

ASML plans to build at least 60 standard EUV machines in 2026 - 36 percent more than in 2025 - and expects annual revenue of up to $47 billion. US tech giants Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet ...
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China blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus

China's economic authority NDRC is forcing Meta to unwind its already completed $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus. Reversing the deal is complicated since Meta has already integrated the ...