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Introducing new capabilities to GPT-Rosalind

GPT-Rosalind advances life sciences research with enhanced biological reasoning, medicinal chemistry expertise, genomics analysis, and experimental workflow capabilities.

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Model releases reset developer expectations, competitive pressure, and the capabilities builders can immediately put into products.

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Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations — Arrangement comes as AI lab is locked in legal battle with Pentagon over Claude model — Anthropic is helping …

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In a letter to Utah Senate President, Kevin O'Leary says he will cut a 40,000-acre AI data center project in Utah by roughly half, after backlash from lawmakers (John Ainger/Bloomberg)

John Ainger / Bloomberg: In a letter to Utah Senate President, Kevin O'Leary says he will cut a 40,000-acre AI data center project in Utah by roughly half, after backlash from lawmakers — A proposed Utah data center that would have been almost three times the size of Manhattan will be drastically scaled back after...

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Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude — Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

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Honeycomb, which offers an AI-powered insurance platform for multi-unit residential properties, raised $40M led by Zeev, bringing its total funding to $95M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Honeycomb, which offers an AI-powered insurance platform for multi-unit residential properties, raised $40M led by Zeev, bringing its total funding to $95M — Itai Ben-Zaken might be one of the only insurance tech founders who doesn't need investors' money—but he'll still take it.

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Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, such as Brazil, Japan, the UK, and Canada (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, such as Brazil, Japan, the UK, and Canada — Americans are far more likely to oppose the construction of AI data centres than citizens of other big economies …

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Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation — The company raised $400 million in a funding round led by Radical Ventures — Generalist AI, a robotics startup …

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AlphaSense Raises $350M at $7.5B Valuation, and Surpasses $600M in Annual Recurring Revenue

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — AlphaSense, the AI platform redefining market intelligence for the business and financial world, has announced the close of a $350 million funding round valuing the company at $7.5 billion — nearly double its most recent $4 billion valuation and bringing its total funding to well over...

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Enterprises and systems integrators are forming cloud and software partnerships to accelerate the deployment of agentic workflows, highlighted by new partner hub programs and expanded enterprise service provider commitments.
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The developer ecosystem is increasingly optimizing tooling for agentic workflows, using models like Codex to build edge runtimes, automate enterprise software remediation, and interface directly with open-source model repositories.
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As enterprise focus shifts toward autonomous agents, industry players are establishing standardized agentic terminology, developing structural agent logic frameworks, and building dedicated monitoring infrastructure to oversee deployed autonomous workflows.
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OpenAI is outlining federal blueprints and global policy agendas that advocate for safety standards, youth protection, and democratic governance structures to guide the societal deployment of frontier artificial intelligence.
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High investor demand is driving substantial capital rounds and IPO preparations for AI startups, with funding targeting diverse applications ranging from generative music platforms to biological neural research.
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OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its biological reasoning model, GPT-Rosalind, for life sciences research and biodefense applications, granting vetted developers and government partners access to genomics analysis and workflow tools.
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Anthropic announced two new components to its Claude Partner Network to help enterprises navigate the network and integrate Claude models into production workflows.
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Google and OpenAI are constructing new data center projects in Texas, Sweden, and Michigan, highlighting the significant energy and infrastructure footprint required for scaling intelligence applications.
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