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Humanoid Robot Beats Usain Bolt's 100m Record in Beijing Trial
Tiangong Ultra ran the 100 meters in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games, beating Usain Bolt's 9.58-second record set in 2009.
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Claude Opus 5 Lands, Approaching Fable 5 Performance at Half the Cost
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 ships at unchanged Opus pricing while more than doubling Opus 4.8's score on Frontier-Bench and getting within 0.5% of Claude Fable 5 on coding at half the cost.
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OpenAI Suspends Its Next Model, Astra, Over Cybersecurity Risk
OpenAI paused development of Astra after internal testing showed its cyber capabilities approaching a 'critical' risk threshold — the model can't rule out finding 0-day exploits without human help.
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xAI Ships Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, Its Latest Speech-to-Speech Upgrade
xAI quietly upgraded Grok's voice model to Think Fast 2.0, improving intelligence, transcription accuracy, and conversational quality — the third major lab to push voice this summer.
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Google DeepMind's Leadership Shakeup: Hassabis Steps Back, Jeff Dean Exits
Demis Hassabis is handing day-to-day control of DeepMind to Koray Kavukcuoglu to become Alphabet's Chief Scientist, while Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to found Discovery Loop.
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Google's AI Spending Hits $205B Guidance, Rattling Wall Street
Google raised its full-year capex guidance to as much as $205 billion, up from $190 billion last quarter — and investors are starting to ask when AI spending pays off.
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Claude's Shared Chats and Artifacts Were Turning Up on Google
Some Claude conversations and Artifacts shared via public links have been indexed by Google, raising questions about the feature's privacy defaults.
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Employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta Sign AI Oversight Plea
Employees across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Thinking Machines have signed a statement urging the US government to act on automated AI development.
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Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Partners With Nvidia
After two years in stealth, Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia to scale its AI research.
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Hugging Face CEO Demands Transparency After OpenAI Hack
Hugging Face's CEO is calling for 'radical transparency' after what's being described as an 'unprecedented' autonomous agent cyberattack against OpenAI.
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China's Kimi K3 Goes Fully Open This Week — A 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Model
Moonshot AI is set to release Kimi K3's full weights, making the largest open-weight model ever built publicly downloadable — and it already beats Claude Opus 4.8 on key benchmarks.
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The White House Is Now Shaping Who Gets Access to Frontier AI Models
A new federal program, Gold Eagle, puts the U.S. government in the loop on which partners get early access to frontier models from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Claude's Voice Mode Grows Up: Opus and Sonnet Replace Haiku-Only
Anthropic upgraded Claude's voice mode beyond Haiku for the first time, adding Opus and Sonnet model choice, cross-app connectors, and support for ten more languages.
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OpenAI Quietly Ships Faster Voice Models for Developers: GPT-Realtime-2.1
Ahead of the consumer-facing GPT-Live launch, OpenAI shipped gpt-realtime-2.1 and a mini variant to the API — cutting latency and adding reasoning effort controls for voice agents.
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Meta Pulls Instagram AI Feature After Deepfake Backlash
Meta has turned off a newly launched Instagram feature that let users generate AI images from any public account's content by tagging it, after facing significant backlash.
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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets
Apple has filed suit against OpenAI, accusing former Apple employees — now at OpenAI and Jony Ive's IO Products — of stealing trade secrets tied to hardware plans.
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SK Hynix Raises $26.5B in Biggest Foreign IPO in US History
SK Hynix's Wall Street debut raised $26.5 billion, the largest foreign IPO ever on a US exchange, as the AI chip boom fuels demand for memory and pressure to build US fabs.
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 to the Public: Sol, Terra and Luna Explained
After a two-week government-requested delay, GPT-5.6 is now broadly available in three tiers — plus GPT-Live, a voice model that listens and speaks at the same time.
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The Fable 5 Reset: Why Anthropic's Most Powerful Model Went Dark and Came Back
Claude Fable 5 launched June 9, was forced offline by a U.S. export directive within three days, and returned with new cybersecurity classifiers. Inside the first government-ordered model recall.
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OpenAI Launches GPT-Live, a Full-Duplex Voice Model
GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini listen and speak at the same time — natural interruptions, live translation, and a smarter assistant working behind the scenes.
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