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Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet, built for natural conversation.
Model releases reset developer expectations, competitive pressure, and the capabilities builders can immediately put into products.
deepmind.google signal 54 primary Hot
OpenAI released a new framework on Wednesday for how it aims to report unsafe or concerning behavior in its models, and disclosed six incidents of such behavior it had observed in the past six months. The framework comes after multiple employee warnings and hacking incidents increased public...
Policy theinformation.com signal 80 verified
OpenAI said Wednesday it is testing allowing some U.S. advertisers to sponsor AI agents working in ChatGPT, a move that would bring ChatGPT ads closer to what Google and Meta Platforms already offer. ChatGPT users who click an ad can now start a conversation with an AI agent to ask follow-up...
Policy theinformation.com signal 80 verified
In an interview with TechCrunch, Al Gore suggested he isn't losing sleep over AI data center emissions — he's more worried about the AI industry's own warnings about where the technology is headed.
Models techcrunch.com signal 79 verified
Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed independent safety evaluators inside their AI labs. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access, but warn meaningful oversight requires transparency, independence, and eventually regulation.
Models techcrunch.com signal 79 verified
E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns. By 2050, it could become enough trash to fill 23 million shipping containers - roughly enough 40-foot containers to circle the world six times if lined up in a row.
Chips theverge.com signal 79 verified
Anthropic’s call to slow down AI development to keep humans safe has dominated the news cycle and drew similar calls from the leaders of OpenAI, Microsoft and others (and subtle disagreement from Mark Zuckerberg ).
Policy theinformation.com signal 77 verified
Apple has been working on plans for an enterprise server using its own chips that could incorporate networking equipment from Nvidia, as the Mac maker looks to capitalize on surging interest in its computers for AI.
Policy theinformation.com signal 77 verified
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang plans to attend President Donald Trump’s state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington next week, according to a person familiar with the matter. His attendance comes as AI chips and the pace of AI development become growing sources of tension between the U.S....
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According to The Information, Apple is planning to get back into the server game and might just pair up with NVIDIA to make it happen. Apple retired its Xserve line in 2011 and has largely left enterprise machines to other manufacturers since. But the growing demand for compute power as the AI industry continues to […]
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The robotics industry is still waiting for their breakthrough into day-to-day life. Nvidia's Les Karpas has an answer as to why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before September 25 to save up to $200 on your pass.
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Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose control - including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X […]
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I rebuilt Tesla Full Self Driving with Jev in less than an hour. This model is a total unlock.
High-engagement X post with 584 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@botGrok Bot can now use 1Password. Share items in a vault, approve each fill, and the secrets stay in your password manager.
High-engagement X post with 1,867 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
opencodeUnion Alpha (stealth model) is free for the next week - no data training - built for agentic coding - supports images let's see what you can do
demishassabisFor 20+ years @ShaneLegg and I've discussed AGI’s potential impact on the economy, science & society. With the DeepMind Institute, we're expanding interdisciplinary research on key questions for the AI era. We hope it spurs the discussions needed to get the next steps right: https://t.co/Bqf10G3Xep
@mistralaiToday, we are announcing a partnership with @mozilla to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. 🦊🐈
Official or high-signal @mistralai post with 174 visible interactions on models signal.
@beffjezosChatGPT Desktop is so good. idk who the lead is @OpenAI but they cooked
High-engagement X post with 219 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@rohanpaul_aiSam Altman just said an internal post-Astra model can solve things the world's best mathematicians cannot. in his conversation with Mark Benioff (co-founder and CEO of Salesforce) "GPT 5.5 was maybe as good as like an average math professor. 5.6 was as...
High-engagement X post with 273 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@ylecun@KenRoth Progress in airplane design have made them safer and safer. Airplanes would have been safer earlier with *accelerated* progress. Turbofan engines have become so reliable that long-haul airplanes can now have only two of them. The same is true for...
Official or high-signal @ylecun post with 961 visible interactions on AI signal.
@zackkormanRogue agents are super scary and might kill you and your entire family but no you can’t have the agent traces from the Hugging Face incident those are proprietary.
High-engagement X post with 270 visible interactions on AI signal.
@antirezWitch hunting level: some guy uses AI to reverse engineer an M4 GPU driver for Linux and part of the community that should be for the open source, for the hacking, for the liberation and freedom is against him.
High-engagement X post with 336 visible interactions on AI compute and inference.
@ylecunBeing better than humans at searching and writing down the formal proof of a theorem does not equate being "beyond human level at math". This is not all of math, any more than arithmetics, or computing integrals (symbolically or numerically) is all of...
Official or high-signal @ylecun post with 386 visible interactions on AI signal.
@maximelabonneNew article: how to turn a 230M param model into a 2000 Elo chess engine. It covers Stockfish SFT distillation, a bit of RL, and a lot of test-time search. The demo runs in your browser on @Hugging Face!
High-engagement X post with 163 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@beffjezosThis is actually the way. The labs can sell top-tier frontier models for cyber defense. All systems should be hardened, and we shouldn't hamper open source in any way. As long as there is a capabilities gap and people spend on hardening, everything should...
High-engagement X post with 149 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@howtoprompt__Yann LeCun has changed the game for robotics. His team discovered that AI world models are "thinking" in twisted, curved geometry, and every RL algorithm you know has been fighting against it without anyone noticing. For years, we’ve been trying to teach...
High-engagement X post with 193 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@derrickcchoiHighly recommend using ChatGPT to audit your skills based on the blog post on our developers page. Instructions that helped older models can add unnecessary steps and context. An audit flags broad skill triggers and rules Astra no longer needs.
High-engagement X post with 130 visible interactions on AI developer tooling.
@alexandr_wangI swear muse code is actually good!! the same model behind muse app powers muse code!
High-engagement X post with 141 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@n8programsTested @typesafeai's claim that their new model Jev delivered "comparable... intelligence" to GPT-5.6 Terra on "System 1" tasks. To do this, I compare both models on multiple-choice benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, etc.). Set reasoning=none for Terra for sys 1....
High-engagement X post with 167 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@yunta_tsaiTraining data is regulation by another name. Easy to add. Almost impossible to unwind. Some labels make sense when you write them. Then the taxonomy shifts, and they don’t.
High-engagement X post with 216 visible interactions on policy signal.
@reach_vbAn emergent behaviour w/ Astra is if I tell it to be fast, it is fast and gets the job done quite accurately and is actually fast at it previously models (like 5.5) would cut corners or submit incomplete work but w/ Astra it feels like it mostly gets it...
High-engagement X post with 173 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@yuchenj_uwJev has spoken. It picked which model is AGI. 20–200x faster. 40–400x cheaper. This could make things like LLM-as-a-judge insanely fast and nearly free. (I tried a bunch of prompts and still didn’t burn through $0.10.)
High-engagement X post with 468 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@bindureddyZuck just swooped in and solved AI pacing! - labs should make models safe - If they don’t they will face criminal liability when the AI goes rogue - we have the gaurdrails in place already and Meta already paced their AI and made sure it’s safe Problem solved!
Official or high-signal @bindureddy post with 122 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
@amasadThis is cool, but if your output domain is known in advance, why not just train a model to produce logprobs over enums?
High-engagement X post with 328 visible interactions on frontier model behavior.
Dev tool ChatGPT
Post describes ChatGPT Work operating over company data and connecting existing tools including PowerBI, Tableau, Clickhouse, Oracle BI and AWS Redshift, including building dashboards.
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Model release Gemini
Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are introduced as SOTA live audio models with frontier price and performance, 97-language support, and async tool calls.
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Model release Gemini
@googleai: Introducing our most advanced Gemini Audio models yet 🗣 Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking let you speak, collaborate, and execute tasks seamlessly, meaning conversing with AI just got a lot more natural. So, what’s the differe
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Model release OpenAI
Artificial Analysis's Speech to Speech Index lists OpenAI's new GPT-Live-1 at #1 with a score of 81.5, ahead of Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0; the post calls it OpenAI's full-duplex speech model.
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Pricing ChatGPT
@victornunez: we launched 2 cool updates today 1. ChatGPT gift cards: use them toward subscriptions and usage credits on ChatGPT web. US only for now. 2. Voice in the desktop app now costs ~60% less, so you get 2.4x as much usage as before. just another
observed launched today; now costs ~60% less
Pricing ChatGPT
@athyuttamre says voice pricing in the desktop app was dropped ~60% for Codex and Work, giving 2.4x more ChatGPT Voice usage than before.
observed dropped prices (effective now)
Legislators passed measures addressing utility costs from expanding data centers, while industry consortia formed energy management initiatives and local regulators issued environmental penalties over facility emissions.
Capital and consolidation +5.4Substantial capital flows into the AI ecosystem through multi-billion-dollar startup merger agreements, large-scale chip loan financing, and new venture capital funds targeted at enterprise infrastructure.
Robotics and embodied AI +0.9Technical developments in embodied AI include deploying agentic workflows to prepare 3D simulation environments, designing multi-actuator dexterous robotic hands, and benchmarking accelerated agent execution on edge robotics hardware.
AI policy and governance -5.6Frontier laboratories published disclosure frameworks for model misalignment, while congressional lawmakers and international officials called for statutory guardrails, global governance, and independent safety evaluation protocols.
AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Super Micro Computer +3.40%, Oracle +2.00%, Advanced Micro Devices +1.65% leading the tracked basket.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
|---|---|---|
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | +3.40% |
| ORCL | Oracle | +2.00% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | +1.65% |
| MSFT | Microsoft | -1.37% |