Meta is launching the Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business unit that sells AI tools to companies.

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Nvidia is combining its OpenShell agent software with Sentry, a new hardware watchdog, to create the Open Agent Safety Platform. Sentry is supposed to isolate AI agents that break out within milliseconds. When it happened at OpenAI in September, stopping the run took nearly three hours. Still, Nvidia's watchdog can't reliably stop agents that have been tricked or that hide their intentions on its own.

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Ryan Greenblatt, chief scientist at Redwood Research, puts the risk of an AI takeover at 50 to 60 percent if development stays on its current path. Sam Harris says that doesn't square with how fast the industry is moving, since Manhattan Project scientists would have called things off at 10 percent. Greenblatt blames the race dynamics at Anthropic and OpenAI and is counting on an international agreement.

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The NSA is already spending billions of dollars to test advanced AI models, mostly on computing power, according to The Washington Sun. Lawmakers expect full-scale AI oversight to cost tens of billions of dollars a year, while earlier estimates from the Congressional Budget Office put the figure at just $20 million. In US health care, AI-assisted billing codes drove up costs by nearly $1 billion over two years.

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Google is testing "Call for Me," a feature that lets Gemini call businesses on a user's behalf.

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According to Transluce researchers and the Australian government, OpenAI's AI agents repeatedly broke into government and university websites without authorization, including Australia's Medicare portal on June 18. The cause was a mundane data search. Prime Minister Albanese called OpenAI's three-month delay in reporting the breach "obviously unacceptable." Transluce's investigation traces the activity back as far as November 2025.

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Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu wants to release Gemini 4 "much earlier" than the end of the year. The model is already in post-training and runs internally in the coding tool Antigravity. He calls the AGI question that drove his predecessor Hassabis "not the right conversation" and says trustworthy agents matter more. After Gemini 3.5 Pro quietly disappeared and many top researchers left for OpenAI and Anthropic, the research lab with an AGI mission has turned into a product shop for good.

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At Meta Connect 2026, Meta expanded its AI agent, Muse, and unveiled several new devices.

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Nscale, the Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider, leaves its most important customer, Bytedance, out of the main prospectus for its planned US IPO.

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Meta's AI agent Muse picked up more than 500,000 users in its first week and hit number one in Apple's App Store. But Meta admits the product is "heavily inspired" by the open-source project OpenClaw, and some of the file names and contents are nearly identical. OpenAI is already discussing a response of its own.

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Basecamp Research has raised $140 million from investors including Nvidia and Anthropic's Anthology Fund. The London company trains AI models on genetic material from rainforests, oceans, and hot springs to design antibiotics and tools for cell therapies. In an interview with THE DECODER, CTO Philip Lorenz explains why biology is a far bigger problem for AI than language, and why good scores on paper don't guarantee good molecules.

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The Biological Computing Co. wants to team up with AWS to sell a text-to-video model that's supposed to run five times faster and 80 percent cheaper thanks to a software layer derived from real nerve cells. The tiny layer adds less than 0.1 percent to the base model, but the startup won't say which model that is.

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With MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Xiaomi moves to the top of the openly available AI models and drastically undercuts the competition on price. What makes that possible is massive reinforcement learning that cost $2.62 million. But the success comes with a catch: Anthropic accuses the company of siphoning off training data from Claude.

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SoftBank plans to borrow more than $11 billion from investors through risky bonds to fund another payment for its stake in OpenAI.

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The US and China have agreed to an official AI dialogue. US Treasury Secretary Bessent also proposed a notification mechanism for AI incidents at the national security level. The announcement comes just before Thursday's summit between Trump and Xi in Washington, the first on US soil since 2017.

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Amazon has blocked Meta's new AI agent Muse from shopping on Amazon.com.

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For the first time, Anthropic is releasing metrics on how it builds its own AI. Claude already "leads" 26 percent of the work on future models, up from under one percent in February. But the underlying scale is fuzzy, the scoring comes from Claude itself, and "lead" means less than it sounds.

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OpenAI has introduced Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model built for legal work.

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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shows a sharp jump in video games. Pokemon FireRed in 18 hours instead of 96, plus completions in Factorio, Fallout 3, and Portal. Why? The model distills experience into compact rules. But that same trait led to hours of potato farming instead of progress in Minecraft after a Creeper explosion.

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OpenAI is publishing a framework for systematically reporting AI misalignment and launching it with six reports. In one case an unreleased model from the Astra family wrote prompt injections into its own summaries during training, including a "Breach Alert" intended to override subsequent instructions.

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