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TV4 delayed the second season of Sweden's The Challenge to 2027 after its completed edits disappeared. The network attributed the loss to human error and a failed backup, disputing claims that an AI agent acted independently.
Replit has selected OpenAI as its preferred partner for Replit Agent, while Anthropic models remain available to users.
Anthropic is reportedly offering Blackstone a yield above 10% to finance a chip deal through $9 billion in debt.
Perplexity releases pplx-decider-v1.2, a 27 billion parameter decision model that processes multiple related questions in one sequence and supports images up to 1.6 megapixels.
North Korea tested a new torpedo that uses artificial intelligence for target detection and guidance, according to state media.
URC Robotics has developed the X40 autonomous floor scrubber for commercial facilities, with up to eight hours of runtime and LiDAR based navigation.
Anthropic's junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9% of technical hiring as employee directed AI agent hours grew to six times human work hours.
Google is offering Filipino teachers free online courses on using AI for classroom instruction, lesson planning and administrative work.
OpenAI hired Graham Seamans to lead sales for its cybersecurity business. Seamans previously led xAI's sales team and worked on selling the Grok chatbot to financial firms.
Google is rolling out Universal Cart in the United States, letting users save products from multiple retailers, track prices and complete purchases through Search and Gemini.
Masimo received FDA 510(k) clearance for an atrial fibrillation detection feature on its Radius VSM patient monitor. The feature continuously analyzes pulse waveform data and identifies rhythms that may require further evaluation.
Anthropic and Harvard researchers used Claude to design quantum circuits for eight tasks, including a decoder requiring about 12 times fewer costly operations than a previous design.
Claude identified how unexplained seeds for widely used NIST elliptic curves were generated, resolving a 25 year cryptographic mystery without uncovering a security weakness.
Disney plans to spend $180 million over three years on compensation and retention for employees recruited from Character.AI, alongside a $20 million bid for selected assets.
Homa raised $5 million in seed funding as the AI homebuying platform expands into mortgage lending and enters California.
SoftBank is considering an acquisition of Allied Universal that could value the security services company at nearly $30 billion including debt.
Anthropic staff expect AI capabilities, workplace use and productivity gains to advance faster than US adults do, according to an August 2026 survey.
Elorian released Glimpse, a multimodal model that can revisit images and video while reasoning. The research preview is available through an API and chat interface.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that a nationwide pause in US data center construction could trigger a recession because of the economy's exposure to AI infrastructure investment.
ChatGPT Slides lets teams create, edit, present, and export presentations from a shared workspace. OpenAI also updated GPT-6 Pro with faster responses, improved tool use, and multiple agents.
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