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Samsung led the round, giving Arthur Mensch an industrial partner and the capital to turn Mistral's sovereignty pitch into infrastructure.
Capital and consolidation are reshaping which teams control important pieces of the AI stack.
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In early June, a fire broke out in a still-unfinished building at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York, exposing just how little the local fire department knew about what it was walking into.
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Mistral has raised €3bn in a Series D at a post-money valuation of more than €21bn, which the company says is the largest equity fundraising ever completed by a European technology firm.
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Nvidia is reportedly shifting its Rubin Ultra AI accelerator toward an eight-high high-bandwidth memory (HBM) configuration, down from an earlier 12-high design, as rising memory costs put greater emphasis on bandwidth efficiency and overall system economics.
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Huawei's Kirin 9050 Pro is the first commercial test of its Tau Scaling Law, with the company claiming a 55% increase in transistor density at the same process node while cutting NPU, GPU and CPU performance-core power by 66%, 58% and 41%, respectively.
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Venture capital firm a16z recently hosted investor Gavin Baker and a16z partner David George for a discussion on Nvidia's competitive position. Baker argued that CEO Jensen Huang has built a formidable moat around a strategy of being "vertically integrated but horizontally open."
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OpenAI Group PBC Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki called for an artificial intelligence research slowdown in an essay published on Sunday, after other prominent industry figures have expressed similar views in recent months.
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The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers’ journalism without permission to train their AI systems. The suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern …
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Release: llm 0.35 New OpenAI model: gpt-6-astra for GPT-6 Astra. Tags: openai, llm, gpt-6-astra
Models simonwillison.net signal 64 verified
Tool: Video compressor I recorded a short demo video of my Equal Earth animation on my phone and wanted to publish an optimized version of that video (using FFMPEG) on my blog, so I had Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code for web build me this tool using the WebAssembly build of FFMPEG.
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Tool: Mercator ↔ Equal Earth I got curious about the Equal Earth map projection that was recently voted on at the UN so I had GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work build me this animated transition between Mercator and Equal Earth using D3. Tags: geospatial, d3, vibe-coding, gpt-6-astra
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OpenAI agents hijacked a German website before the Hugging Face hack.
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Just days after OpenAI launched its newest and most powerful model dubbed Astra, which the company said marked the arrival The post “Some agents will be pursuing their own objectives”: OpenAI’s chief scientist warns AI could trick and blackmail humans appeared first on The New Stack.
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Hey Astra, cancel all the subscriptions I don't really need, also go negotiate my internet bill, same for my electricity bill... oh and find some nice flowers (she likes peonies) for my wife and make sure to remind me every 3 weeks to get some
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@rileybrownAlright, I can't handle it, I'm getting a mac mini to run Codex 24/7. I need everything on a single computer signed into everything that I use. Codex is just too good at using a mac... Not just any mac, my mac. I need Codex running on my mac with access to...
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@ns123abcBREAKING: Anthropic ABANDONS ~$6 BILLION ACQUISITION OF DECART AI >be decart >israeli AI startup ~100 people >build DOS inference engine >8x faster tokens vs. industry >NVIDIA already investor >makes ~$8 billion acquisition offer >Anthropic pulls up with...
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@benjamindekrThis is our competition. We must not allow a robot gap!
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@bindureddyGemini is extremely under hyped Flash 3.7 is a very good model and that’s just their Flash version The bigger Pro 4.0 version is a full retrain and will be as good as Astra / Fable At 50% of Astra’s price, Gemini 4.0 will quickly catch up
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@rileybrownPeople are sleeping on how fun building video games with AI is. You can make video games... then tell your agent to make them multiplayer... then send a link to your friends and you can just play. THINK ABOUT THAT... I have not played video games for 10...
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@thsottiauxSorry, but this is not an approved use of Sign in With ChatGPT. We support pure OSS clients and others we have partnerships with, but you need to reach out and talk to us for that. Please see DM.
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@higgsfield_aiHiggsfield + GPT-6 Astra = infinite autonomous content machine. Astra is so ADVANCED, it can use ANY available power-user software on your laptop combining every app's main features: Premiere Pro – for editing Ableton Live – for sound DaVinci Resolve – for...
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@theojaffeeOne of the worst takes you can have is "AGI is already here". Not only is it wrong (we don't have models that can replace humans across all economically valuable tasks), but it causes people to incorrectly believe that actual post-AGI predictions have...
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@emollickIf you are an academic, you should try throwing a paper into GPT-6 Pro & asking "review this for me." It is now great at finding real (not just nit-picky) issues but balancing those with a paper's strengths & suggesting additions Here is a helpful critique...
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@zixuanli_GLM-5.3-Flash becomes the 3rd strongest open-weight model on AA. It shines even more when the benchmark focuses on complex agentic work.
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@alexandr_wangThis is a silly argument. GPT-5.6 Sol was 88.8% on TerminalBench 2.1 and 37.3% on TerminalBench 4.0. That doesn't make it a more benchmaxxed model than GPT-6 Astra even though the diff is larger. TerminalBench 4.0 is simply a much harder eval that isn't...
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@jensenhuangNVIDIA compute is fungible, durable and highly rentable. It is a productive, revenue-generating asset.
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@davidsholzI wish AI services let me pay more to seamlessly spin up powerful VMs to run my work on - I mean like high core count CPU instances, GPU instances, etc
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@semianalysis_Gemini 3.8 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3 are two of the most clearly benchmaxxed models we've seen yet. Despite being comparable to both GPT-6 and Fable 5.1 on Terminal Bench 2.1, their Terminal Bench 4.0 performance is markedly worse. (1/5)🧵
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@willdepueIts abundantly clear that astra-next or astra-next-next will be able to do all of these via computer use without custom training lol. its kinda joever. agi under any practical definition is here. I think 'learn anything' agi maybe is the best remaining...
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@ammaarI used GPT-6 Astra to get AAA PC games running on my iPad mini! Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, Hades, and Age of Empires II. The actual Windows versions, running locally with touch controls. No streaming. Demo below and I'll share a repo and setup guides soon!
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@matthewmilleraiGrok 4.7 drops this week and it has to be a comeback. I loved Grok 4.6. Called it the most trustworthy frontier model last week and meant it. Then Fable 5.1 and GPT 6 Astra shipped and I have not opened Grok once since. Musk says 4.7 is a 2.1T parameter...
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@bantegSuper smash bros melee is fully decompiled, this project started in july 2020, so it took over 6 years. the progress was hugely accelerated by LLMs and finished off with astra. it's a very large game with 3.88mb of compiled code.
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@thsottiauxI challenge this a bit (a) Codex was started as an internal tool. The goal was explicitly to build what was the highest leverage tool to accelerate infrastructure buildout. (b) I don’t think the Meta vs non-Meta is particularly enlightening here. Most of...
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@gdbChatGPT Work for your personal writing style:
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@quixiaiMy account is back. Thank you @OpenAI, and thank you to everyone who raised their voice or reposted for me. I felt your support. The scare has stuck with me, though. I never want to be one suspension away from losing my work again, so I'm figuring out how...
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@rileybrownIt's official I am feeling the AGI... While testing GPT-6 Astra I had 7 key realizations: (Realization 1 & 2 - I gave Astra a 38 page PDF of an estate, and it it turned it into a blender file, then made it into a playable call of duty map in one prompt)...
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@mattshumer_My GPT-6 Astra 3D builds just passed 15M views on X. The most common question, by far: "how are you getting this level of quality?" Here's exactly how. The full guide:
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Hot Artificial Analysis
@artificialanlys announces Intelligence Index v4.3, Terminal-Bench upgraded to 4.0, and new AutomationBench-AA with a private test set. Continuation of their index rollout.
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Model release GLM
@zixuanli_: To make the most of GLM-5.3-Flash’s multimodal capabilities, ZCode just shipped two Video plugins: - Video2code: turn a URL or screen recording into working code - Video Agent Kit: automate video editing More tasks now finish end to end. Tr
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Model release Hunyuan
@tencenthunyuan: ✔️Hy4 preview just shipped an upgrade. You flagged it: long thinking + over-verification on complex tasks. We optimized it. Now live for everyone. Same task quality. Fewer turns. Lower in/out tokens. Bench + human eval both confirm. We’ll k
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Model release Claude Fable
@bindureddy: Amazing! Fable 5.2 launches shortly Followed by Gemini 4.0 and hopefully Bel from OpenAI The party doesn’t stop 💃
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Dev tool Hermes Agent
Teknium reported token efficiency improvements in Hermes over the prior two weeks and invited users to test Codex subscriptions in Hermes Agent.
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Pricing DeepSeek
Ollama says DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Pro token rates will be half price outside 12:00–18:00 UTC on weekdays and all day on weekends; broader model coverage is planned but not yet available.
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Hardware manufacturers and regional hubs are adjusting chip designs, foundry allocations, and power planning to manage rising memory costs and expanding computing capacity requirements.
Robotics and embodied AI +3.9Humanoid robotics initiatives are expanding across manufacturing lines and speech-driven motion controls, while industry research notes ongoing infrastructure constraints for workplace deployment.
AI policy and governance +2.3Legal challenges over training data, unmonitored enterprise software usage, and warnings regarding autonomous agent behaviors are driving increased scrutiny around AI safety and institutional governance.
AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Advanced Micro Devices +4.69%, Super Micro Computer +4.54%, Palantir Technologies. -4.49% leading the tracked basket.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
|---|---|---|
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | +4.69% |
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | +4.54% |
| PLTR | Palantir Technologies. | -4.49% |
| ARM | Arm Holdings plc | +3.92% |