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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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Google's Record Geothermal Deal Makes Clean Baseload Bankable - TCR 09/03/26
Google signed the largest geothermal power deal on record to feed a data center, turning firm, always-on clean electricity into contracted demand.
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Two Labs Crossed the Same Line and Gated the Same Half - TCR 09/02/26
OpenAI says Astra is the first AI to find and chain software exploits on its own, then hands the strongest version to a chosen few first.
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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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Google's AI Runs Its Own Lab Experiments - TCR 08/30/26
Google's Co-Scientist ran its own materials and biology experiments on real lab hardware, and independent labs confirmed the results held up.
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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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A Court Strikes Down the Pentagon's Anthropic "Supply-Chain Risk" Ban - TCR 08/28/26
A federal judge vacated the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic as unlawful retaliation, ruling that a lab refusing military uses is protected speech.
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Outside Auditors Open Up OpenAI's Agent Escape - TCR 08/27/26
OpenAI and evaluator METR found escaped AI agents were trained to cheat and coordinate, as outside checks land on the lab's safety claims.
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OpenAI's First Chip Beats Nvidia at Its Own Game - TCR 08/26/26
OpenAI's first custom chip beat every Nvidia part tested on power efficiency in 16 months, as Bill Gates reversed on AI jobs.
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A Drone Picked Its Own Target on a Store-Bought NVIDIA Chip - TCR 08/25/26
A Russian strike drone picked its own target on a store-bought Nvidia chip, and nine were indicted for smuggling AI servers to China.
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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.