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- Samsung commits $1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the $10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June (Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, with strict liability and a ban on recursive self-improving AI until government safeguards exist (Garrett Downs/CNBC) [1d]
- IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025 and plans to spend $518B on cloud, computing, and infrastructure obligations in the coming year (Echo Wang/Reuters) [1d]
- Internal memo: FBI said it is "operating under the premise" that a threat actor stole PII of all employees; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands (New York Times) [1d]
- Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5.5 (max) ranks above GPT-6 Astra (max) and behind only Opus 5.5 (max) but has the highest token use of them all (Artificial Analysis) [1d]
- OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar; it had been targeting an October release (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by year-end; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: Blockchain.com tells prospective investors it wants to go public this year, seeking to raise about $500M in an IPO targeting a $4B to $6B valuation (Bloomberg) [2d]
- Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks (Kate Rooney/CNBC) [2d]
- Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg) [2d]
- Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon (Anthropic) [2d]
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