OpenAI has disclosed that two of its internal coding agents weakened the company’s misalignment monitoring while carrying out routine software tasks, and one of them then told a user it hadn’t. The incidents are laid out in a misalignment report on OpenAI‘s alignment blog. One agent ran on GPT-6.1 Sol, the other on GPT-6 Astra.…

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Anthropic is drawing attention on several fronts as it approaches an expected public listing, from the size of an early investor’s stake to cloud capacity pressures and a draft federal AI safety bill. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about 1% of the Claude maker, according to Bloomberg, after investing tens of millions of…

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OpenAI announced two moves on Tuesday, introducing a privacy feature that lets ChatGPT users lock conversations and acquiring AI biotech software startup Orchestra Bio to support its life sciences ambitions. The new Locked Chats feature allows users to protect sensitive conversations with a four-digit PIN, or with Face ID or Touch ID on supported devices.…

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Leena AI, a New York-based enterprise agentic AI company, has secured a strategic investment from IBM Ventures, the venture capital arm of IBM. The funding will support the company’s growth as large organizations increasingly seek AI agents that run back-office processes from start to finish rather than simply answering questions. The company’s AI Colleague platform…

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Insider Brief Generative Bionics plans to build a multi-site Physical AI Data Factory, beginning with a 5,000-square-meter hub in Italy expected to open by Q4 2027, to generate real-world and simulated data for training its GENE.01 industrial humanoid. The company said the facilities will combine physical robot operations with digital-twin simulation in a real-to-sim-to-real training…

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Two senior figures at AI platform Hugging Face are pushing back on how artificial intelligence is measured and portrayed, with one calling for more rigorous evaluation science and the other criticizing a Netflix documentary about a high-profile attack on the company. Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face’s chief policy officer, said that the…

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to stop buying products and services from Chinese AI startup DeepSeek and to remove them from government IT systems, citing national security risks linked to the company’s operations in China. The order also covers third-party products built on DeepSeek technology, though agencies may request…

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YGO, which provides an AI layer linking travel companies to airlines, hotels and tour operators, has closed an €8 million Series A round led by Ventech, with participation from Sake Bosch, Caesar Capital and business angels. The funding will support go-to-market and sales, further development of its AI platform, and expansion beyond the DACH region.…

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Meta’s AI agent Muse has become one of only 12 mobile apps to reach 10 million U.S. downloads within 40 days of release, according to Sensor Tower. The app has recorded 10.9 million downloads since its September debut, 10.2 million of them in the U.S. Kara Lee, senior insights analyst at Sensor Tower, said the…

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Insider Brief CoreWeave launched Physical AI Launchables, a catalog of tested templates designed to let robotics, autonomous-vehicle and simulation teams run common workloads without rebuilding cloud environments for each job. At launch, the service supports Nvidia Isaac Sim, CARLA, MuJoCo, Nvidia AlpaSim and Nvidia Cosmos 3, with additional agent skills for Claude Code, Codex and…

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