Tesla says Cybercab rides are available in limited areas of Austin; the two-seater has no steering wheel or pedals, and 45 Cybercabs are registered in Texas (Reuters)Reuters·1:25 AM UTC·◆◆◆ 3 SOURCES
Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are experiencing issues; Anthropic reports errors across Opus 4.8 and Opus 5, and OpenAI reports errors across ChatGPT and Codex (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)9to5Google·3:45 PM UTC·◆◆ 2 SOURCES
Report and sources: rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website in May and turned it into a forum for agents, sharing tactics to cheat on tasks and more (Reuters)Reuters·10:55 AM UTC
Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investorsgeekwire.com·3:20 AM UTC
Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures (Axios)Axios·9:55 PM UTC
A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a US AI regulator in a call with Trump last month; another source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance (Politico)politico.com·7:05 PM UTC
OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in TexasAxios·6:25 PM UTC
Nvidia says the RTX Spark N1X launches in October in two configurations: a 20-core CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU and an 18-core CPU with a 5,120-core GPUTom's Hardware·4:25 PM UTC
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index: GPT-6 Astra scored 67, roughly equal to Claude Opus 5, Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.3, but trailing leader Fable 5.1's 70 (Artificial Analysis)artificialanalysis.ai·1:10 PM UTC
Letters: US military branches disabled ad trackers on government-issued devices amid reports of location data being used to target US forces in the Middle EastReuters·10:55 AM UTC
Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interestupstartsmedia.com·11:10 PM UTC
OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the worldAxios·8:40 PM UTC
Microsoft AI debuts MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model that it says beats Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe, at $0.10/audio hour through 2026VentureBeat·7:00 PM UTC
India-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised $70M, including $5M in debt, a source says at a $365M valuation, and is working with Qualcomm on a new ringTechCrunch·5:15 PM UTC
Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech backer, with the value of its equity investments up 10x in the past year to $99B, as it bolsters the AI sectorcnbc.com·9:45 AM UTC·◆◆◆ 3 SOURCES
Q&A with Jensen Huang and Clément Delangue on the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal, scaling open-source models, the rumored $1B talent retention plan, and more (CNBC)cnbc.com·5:00 AM UTC·◆◆ 2 SOURCES
GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with the standard harness and 99.9% with a new provider adapter harness; Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2%, and GPT-5.6 Sol 7.8%arcprize.org·8:05 PM UTC
Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Centerslashdot.org·7:00 PM UTC
Tesla says Cybercab rides are available in limited areas of Austin; the two-seater has no steering wheel or pedals, and 45 Cybercabs are registered in Texas (Reuters)Reuters·1:25 AM UTC·◆◆◆ 3 SOURCES
Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are experiencing issues; Anthropic reports errors across Opus 4.8 and Opus 5, and OpenAI reports errors across ChatGPT and Codex (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)9to5Google·3:45 PM UTC·◆◆ 2 SOURCES
Report and sources: rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website in May and turned it into a forum for agents, sharing tactics to cheat on tasks and more (Reuters)Reuters·10:55 AM UTC
Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investorsgeekwire.com·3:20 AM UTC
Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures (Axios)Axios·9:55 PM UTC
A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a US AI regulator in a call with Trump last month; another source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance (Politico)politico.com·7:05 PM UTC
OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in TexasAxios·6:25 PM UTC
Nvidia says the RTX Spark N1X launches in October in two configurations: a 20-core CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU and an 18-core CPU with a 5,120-core GPUTom's Hardware·4:25 PM UTC
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index: GPT-6 Astra scored 67, roughly equal to Claude Opus 5, Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.3, but trailing leader Fable 5.1's 70 (Artificial Analysis)artificialanalysis.ai·1:10 PM UTC
Letters: US military branches disabled ad trackers on government-issued devices amid reports of location data being used to target US forces in the Middle EastReuters·10:55 AM UTC
Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interestupstartsmedia.com·11:10 PM UTC
OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the worldAxios·8:40 PM UTC
Microsoft AI debuts MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model that it says beats Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe, at $0.10/audio hour through 2026VentureBeat·7:00 PM UTC
India-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised $70M, including $5M in debt, a source says at a $365M valuation, and is working with Qualcomm on a new ringTechCrunch·5:15 PM UTC
Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech backer, with the value of its equity investments up 10x in the past year to $99B, as it bolsters the AI sectorcnbc.com·9:45 AM UTC·◆◆◆ 3 SOURCES
Q&A with Jensen Huang and Clément Delangue on the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal, scaling open-source models, the rumored $1B talent retention plan, and more (CNBC)cnbc.com·5:00 AM UTC·◆◆ 2 SOURCES
GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with the standard harness and 99.9% with a new provider adapter harness; Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2%, and GPT-5.6 Sol 7.8%arcprize.org·8:05 PM UTC
Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Centerslashdot.org·7:00 PM UTC
