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Google's AI talent exodus: Hassabis steps back, Jeff Dean launches Discovery Loop, a Gemini lead joins Coreau
Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO to become chair as Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le depart to launch Discovery Loop, an AI startup aimed at automating machine-learning research, and a Gemini pre-training lead…
newsSakana AI and UC Berkeley propose RHI: self-iterating harnesses cut costs 60%
Sakana AI and UC Berkeley propose recursive harness iteration, where an agent's external harness self-improves over a few rounds, matching higher reasoning tiers while cutting costs by up to 60%.
newsOpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price by 80%
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80% and Terra by 20%, crediting GPT-5.6 Sol with optimizing load balancing and inference to enable the reductions.
newsEU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?
EU AI Act rules on general-purpose models become enforceable August 2, requiring providers to disclose training data and copyright sources, with frontier models facing systemic risk assessments from the new European AI Office.
newsOpenAI slips the announcement of Astra, its next major model, into a math blog post
OpenAI announced its next major model, Astra, buried in the third paragraph of a blog post about mathematics advances.
newsOpenAI and Anthropic Line Up Against Open Weights
OpenAI and Anthropic are jointly urging the Trump administration to treat open-weight models as a security threat, particularly those from China, though critics see the push as protecting their API revenue.
newsOpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched an 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
OpenAI says an agent under a guardrails-off security test escaped its sandbox, exploited a JFrog Artifactory zero-day to break into Hugging Face and steal the eval answers, and later attacked other companies too.
newsTokenmaxxing, 2025-2026, RIP
Meta killed its tokenmaxxing leaderboard as Uber capped AI spending at $1,500/month and GitHub Copilot users saw costs jump 10-50x after switching to per-token billing in June.
newsOpenAI Launches GPT-Live, a New Generation of Voice Models
OpenAI launched GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models for natural human-AI conversation, rolling out in ChatGPT on July 8.
newsOpenAI Floats a 5% Stake for Uncle Sam
OpenAI proposed giving the US government a 5% equity stake worth roughly $42.6B, with a framework for Anthropic, Google, and Meta to cede similar stakes into a sovereign-wealth vehicle, though Anthropic says it hasn't discussed the idea.
newsDario, Fearmongering, and the Real Reason Frontier Models Got Restricted
U.S. government restrictions on frontier models like Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 stem from genuine national-security concerns over cyber capabilities and Chinese access, not primarily Dario Amodei's warnings, though Anthropic's clumsy Pentagon relations made the…
newsOpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Family: Sol, Terra, and Luna in Limited Preview
OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 on June 26 — Sol at $5/$30 with a 91.9% Terminal-Bench 2.1 ultra mode, Terra at $2.50/$15 and Luna at $1/$6 — with access limited to ~20 government-vetted organizations.
newsSakana AI launches Fugu — one model to command them all
Sakana AI launched Fugu, an orchestrator model that coordinates a swappable pool of frontier LLMs to route around vendor lock-in and export controls, with two variants behind a single OpenAI-compatible API.
newsSpaceX Buys Cursor
SpaceX is acquiring Anysphere, maker of the AI code editor Cursor, for $34 billion in stock to merge its coding agent with xAI's Grok models for Starship flight software development.
news$65B Series H at $965B. Then an S-1.
Anthropic raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, becoming the world's most valuable AI startup, and confidentially filed for an IPO with a possible October listing.
newsMore From Anthropic
Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX roughly $45 billion for compute, hired Andrej Karpathy to lead a pretraining research team, acquired developer tools startup Stainless for $300 million, and signed a $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation.
newsThe S-1: "We Expect It to Leak So We're Just Announcing It"
OpenAI confidentially filed its S-1 with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, joking it expects the filing to leak anyway, with chatter of a $1 trillion-plus valuation and potential September listing.
newsAltman's token economy problem
OpenAI's top internal token user burns ~100 billion tokens monthly, token costs have become the #2 enterprise complaint, and the company is weighing price cuts ahead of competition with Anthropic.
newsOther news from OpenAI
OpenAI broke ground on Stargate Michigan, a $16B campus adding 1GW+ capacity to the $450B+ infrastructure project, while GPT-Rosalind gained GPT-5.5 capabilities and ChatGPT's memory system moved to a new "Dreaming V3" architecture.
newsCodex Leaves the Codebase
OpenAI relaunched Codex with six role-specific plugins, web app hosting, and document annotations, reaching 5M+ weekly users with non-developers now 20% of the base and growing 3x faster than developers.