Rundowns AI https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Apple launches the M6 Mac mini at $899 and a 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio Apple debuts M5 Ultra with an 80-core GPU and 512GB of memory OpenAI launches an Admin plugin that makes workspace changes from chat Slack launches Slack Code with 4 coding agents live in team channels Apple’s IDEA Prune cuts 2.8B models to 1.3B and lifts MMLU to 46.4% Generalist raises $198M for robot models at a reported $3B valuation OpenAI benchmarks its Jalapeño chip at 1.9x more AI work per watt Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local agent with no token fees Anthropic rents $45B of Nscale compute for 460MW in West Virginia IBM launches Granite 4.2 reasoning models in 3B, 8B and 30B sizes Hugging Face adds ColBERT training in Sentence Transformers v6.0 Z.ai says Ox Alpha was GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B open-weights model Meta settles state child-safety case for up to $18B over 10 years AWS turns on cross-Region routing for GPT-5.6 across 25+ Regions John Gruber calls Claude’s text watermark a perversion of writing AI tools for business: $216 a seat, 30% of the tasks finished Artificial intelligence in business: what actually got deployed Nvidia projects 70% revenue growth and $673B in sales for fiscal 2028 Google gives students a free year of Gemini and quizzes for 9 exams Stripe buys OpenRouter for a reported $7.5B after a $1.3B May round Rillet raises $100M at a $1B valuation in a 48-hour Series C AI terminology explained: what the words mean when a vendor uses them AWS ships ADOP, an agent framework that leaves production model-free Artificial intelligence models explained: four families, four ways to pay Etched raises $700M at $21B, doubling its valuation in a month TikTok settles DOJ children’s privacy lawsuit for $400 million Starcloud raises $250M at a $2.3B valuation for orbital data centers Tesla recalls 3 million vehicles in China’s record door handle crackdown AI blog tools: $5.27 an article, 9 stats with no outside source AI cost per employee: $11.95 at the median, $7,400 at the top 1% AI has cut entry-level hiring 14% while total employment holds AI email tools priced against a real inbox: 144 threads, 1 human Best AI for coding: 97% on one benchmark, 61.5% on a harder one Enterprise AI keeps failing at deployment, not capability OpenAI overhauls training security after its AI hacked Hugging Face The history of AI in 6 documents: from Dartmouth 1955 to $581.7B The future of AI at work is a hiring story, not a firing story Spanish school study: self-reflection beats a multi-agent AI pipeline The best AI podcasts, sorted by who each show is actually for Artificial intelligence platform pricing: buy a seat or run a GPU The benefits of AI are real. Nine in ten executives don’t see them What the AI industry gets wrong about its own users IIT Delhi: safety prompts make VLMs refuse answers they can still see OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plugin that reads and sends iMessages on Mac Kansas study: safety benchmark ranks shift 17 places on small models Free AI tools compared: what each free tier really costs you Together AI: GLM-5.3 ties Claude Fable 5 at a fifth of the price AI startup funding explained: what a round announcement leaves out AI automation: which workflows actually survive it Groq raises $350M at $3.5B, down from $6.9B before the Nvidia deal