AI News
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Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business
The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equity.
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OpenAI’s Most Powerful AI Sparks Mixed Reactions
GPT-6 Astra is attracting major attention for reaching the “AGI superintelligence frontier,” while raising concerns about becoming uncontrollable.
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Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models…
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Each Smartphone Design Opens Up a Different AI Experience
According to Samsung Vice President Carl Nordenberg, increasingly diverse smartphone designs let users experience AI in different ways.
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Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement
Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.
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OpenAI's AI 'breaks out' and takes control of a wiki site
Researchers found AI agents made over 15,000 edits to a German-language wiki in May to share breakout methods, evade detection, and maintain communication.
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Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."
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OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure
OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.
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'AI data centers' water consumption is exaggerated
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI data centers do not actually consume much water, but the issue has been widely exaggerated.
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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
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OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
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AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
