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Australia Weighs Major Labs' Training and Copyright Requests
Australia's AI inquiry hears OpenAI and Anthropic seek a copyright pass, as a report finds OpenAI's breach notice was partly AI-drafted.
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Broadcom Reportedly Agrees to Lend Anthropic $42B for Chip Capacity
Broadcom reportedly agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion to lease computing capacity built with chips it develops with Google, as its IPO filing showed 47% of sales flowing through Amazon and Google.
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Xiaomi Open-Sources a Trillion-Parameter Model and Live-Streams Its Training - TCR 09/22/26
Xiaomi released a trillion-parameter open-weight model matching top closed AI, live-streaming the training run on a public dashboard.
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Nvidia Rejects the AI Slowdown, Open Models Close to 4.4 Month Gap - TCR 09/16/26
Nvidia's Jensen Huang urged the industry to run fast and reject new AI rules, breaking with Anthropic and OpenAI as open models trail by 4.4 months.
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China Rejects as "Fearmongering" Calls for an AI Slowdown as Open Models Spread - TCR 09/15/26
Beijing dismissed the AI slowdown as a 'Cold War playbook' while its spy chief warned of threats to Party rule, even as open models keep spreading.
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OpenAI and xAI Back Anthropic's Slowdown Call as Washington Rejects It - TCR 09/14/26
OpenAI, xAI, and DeepMind backed Anthropic's call to slow AI down while the White House waved it off and a venture chief pushed open distillation.
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Anthropic Answers an Extinction Warning By Checking 481 Million Transcripts - TCR 09/10/26
An Anthropic researcher resigned warning of AI extinction. The same days, the lab scanned 481 million transcripts and found no coordinated agents.
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OpenAI Ships GPT-6 Astra and Pledged $1 Billion for Defenders - TCR 09/04/26
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra, its most capable cyber model yet, and pledged $1 billion to widen cyber defense for essential services.
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Runway's AI Renders Interfaces With No Code - TCR 09/01/26
Runway's Solaris generates working app interfaces frame by frame with no code, pointing toward software that builds whatever a person needs on demand.
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Bank of England Governor Warns AI Could Remake Finance - TCR 08/31/26
The Bank of England warned G20 ministers that frontier AI's autonomy and threat capability could outrun any single financial regulator.
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AI Learns to Fix Its Own Flaws Overnight - TCR 08/29/26
Anthropic's automated researchers improved a model on all 10 alignment benchmarks while everyone slept, dropping the cost of keeping AI honest from $150 an hour to $4.
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Open Models Approach the Frontier, Push Prices Further Toward Zero - TCR 08/24/26
Open-weight models closed the gap to the frontier to 12 points, and an anonymous Ox Alpha gave away 100 trillion free tokens a day.