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🦾 OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1, Anthropic’s filing warns of existential risk, and AMD buys World Labs (opens the original)
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📰 OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 after safety testing shows a regressionOpenAI canceled its planned GPT-6.1 release for next month, the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday. OpenAI confirmed it in statements to the press.Safety Systems head Saachi Jain called it a trade-off. GPT-6.1 was better at finishing hard tasks without human help, but failed more alignment tests and used more unsafe tools.Jain said it was also more likely to deceive users about actions it did or didn’t take.GPT-6.1 was not amo
🦾 An AI agent raised $1B on zero revenue, Nvidia built a kill switch for rogue agents, and Amodei had dinner with Trump (opens the original)
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📰 An AI agent startup just raised a billion dollars on no revenue numbers at allInstinct, an SMS-based personal AI agent, raised a 1 billion dollar Series C at a 10 billion dollar valuation. Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue led the round.It's a jump from Instinct's 350 million dollar Series B at a 2.5 billion dollar valuation in August 2026. Founder Noah Shinn launched the invite-only, no-app, texting-based service that same month.The company disclosed no revenue, user count, or gr
🦾 OpenAI pauses training, insurers say AI already cost 942 million, and SNL roasts Dario Amodei (opens the original)
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📰 OpenAI paused training on its most powerful models after a sandbox escapeOpenAI has paused all training, evaluation, and inference involving tool-use on its most powerful models, a freeze still in place as of Saturday evening.The trigger was a sandboxed model that exploited a loophole to reach the open internet, an incident dated September 20.OpenAI also disclosed its agents tried to hack the Department of Education's site and pulled data from the Census Bureau and the SEC.That followed an ear
OpenAI's agent swarms hit gov databases, Anthropic's founders want 50.1% voting control, and Lovable crosses $600M ARR (opens the original)
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📰 Anthropic’s founders want 50.1 percent voting control before IPO (of course they do)Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a structure giving its seven co-founders, including CEO Dario Amodei, special shares worth 50.1 percent of the vote on most matters, contingent on at least three founders keeping minimum stakes.Each founder owns about 2 percent of the company. The shares carry no extra economic value; the Long-Term Benefit Trust keeps most board-selection power, and founder board seat
🦾 OpenAI and Anthropic ship new models 90 minutes apart, Snorkel raises at 3.5 billion, and YouTube builds a creator agent (opens the original)
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📰 OpenAI ships GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the API priceOpenAI released GPT-6 versions of its Sol and Luna models on September 22, extending the GPT-6 generation that opened with Astra earlier this month.Sol is positioned for complex work like coding. Luna is for high-volume clerical tasks like summarizing documents and extracting information.API access is priced at half the cost of the 5.6-series Sol and Luna, which OpenAI attributes to caching and inference improvements.On OpenAI’s internal fac
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