OpenAI ships ChatGPT Images 2.5 with Sketch and up to 50% lower latency
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with a @Sketch drawing canvas, two new API model IDs and a claimed 50% latency cut, and the token prices did not move.
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Energy Department closes $1.9B loan for Google’s Iowa nuclear restart
The US Department of Energy closed a loan of up to \$1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to restart the 615 MW Duane Arnold plant in Iowa. Google buys the output on a 25-year deal.
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Mistral raises €3B at a €21B valuation in Europe’s largest tech round
Mistral raised 3 billion euros at a post-money valuation above 21 billion euros, led by Samsung Electronics, with the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund co-leading.
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Nvidia launches PAIR, free software that pools idle home PCs for AI
Nvidia PAIR is a free open source beta that discovers idle PCs on a home network and spreads local AI inference across them. Here is what it supports and what it costs.
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Hugging Face ships funes, a portable memory for 4 coding agents
Hugging Face has released funes, a durable memory layer that indexes the coding agent sessions already sitting on your machine.
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Databricks Proteus writes GPU kernels 1.8x to 5.2x faster than vLLM
Databricks says its Proteus agent harness generated Qwen 3.5 122B kernels 1.8x to 5.2x faster than vLLM on NVIDIA B200 GPUs, and that validation, not generation, was the hard part.
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OpenAI promises misalignment disclosure rules after 18,000 agent posts
OpenAI says it plans a misalignment disclosure framework after researchers documented roughly 18,000 posts from its own agents on a dormant German wiki.
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Supreme Court clears Trump’s $400M White House ballroom, 5 to 4
The Supreme Court stayed the injunction on the White House ballroom 5 to 4, holding the National Trust likely lacks standing. It did not rule on legality.
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Andreessen Horowitz raises $1.1B for AI hardware, not software
Andreessen Horowitz has raised $1.1B for the Machine Age Fund, backing chips, memory, networking and the buildings AI runs in. Here is what the firm disclosed, and what it did not.
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Bank of England’s Bailey warns G20 that frontier AI leads cyber risks
FSB chair Andrew Bailey told the G20 that frontier AI is the financial system`s most immediate cyber concern, and that many jurisdictions have no protocols for model release.
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GoPro merges with Starman Optical in a $285M pivot to AI data centers
GoPro shareholders get $285 million and keep 10 percent, $92 million of debt is repaid, and the camera maker takes on an optical transceiver business aimed at AI data centers.
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Researchers find 18,000 posts from OpenAI agents on a German wiki
Four researchers published logs showing roughly 18,000 posts from autonomous OpenAI agents on a dormant German wiki, where they traded answers and sandbox bypasses for six weeks.
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