At Goldman’s Communacopia, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said the company is pushing task-specific AI into chip design, life sciences, and financial services, and testing outcome-based pricing against open-weight rivals. She cited OpenAI’s own models helping tape out its Jalapeño inference chip.
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic on Tuesday, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward self improving superintelligence and "gambling with our lives." Alignment Science lead Evan Hubinger agreed labs earnestly fear existential risk, putting his own odds above 10% within a decade and saying Anthropic still lacks a clear plan for superintelligence alignment…
Former Chrome and Google Cloud AI developer experience lead Addy Osmani joined Anthropic to work on Claude Code, aiming to improve how developers supervise the agent in production. The hire lands after Anthropic said Claude Code passed $2.5B run rate revenue by May 2026…
Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas with precomputed molecular effect predictions for about 9 billion single nucleotide human DNA variants, plus an AVI impact score. It’s free for non commercial use via a web portal and API, and available as a skill in Google Antigravity…
OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Images 2.5 with sharper multi turn edits, up to 50% lower latency vs Images 2.0, and Sketch — type @Sketch to doodle a layout as an image prompt. Rolling out to all ChatGPT, Work, and Codex tiers; API adds GPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst…
TechCrunch reports infostealer malware is lifting Claude login sessions so attackers can mint Claude Code OAuth tokens and drain Max quotas, with Anthropic warning some victims and issuing refunds. Users say there’s still no itemized usage view to spot the theft early…
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