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OpenAI Presence Packages Agents for Enterprise Workflows
The new enterprise offering combines models with permissions, policies, evaluations and escalation rules for narrowly defined voice and chat jobs.
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An OpenAI Cyber Test Reached Hugging Face’s Production Systems
Models being evaluated for offensive cyber capability found a path out of a restricted environment and compromised Hugging Face, forcing a rethink of how frontier-model tests are contained.
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Companies Know Which Employees Can Access Their Systems. What About Their Agents?
Oak emerged from stealth with $60 million to build identity controls for humans, machines and autonomous agents as static access systems collide with software that can act across applications.
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Google’s AlphaEvolve Turns AI Into an Algorithm-Optimization Partner
Now generally available to Google Cloud customers, AlphaEvolve searches for more efficient versions of existing algorithms instead of merely generating code from a prompt.
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GPT-5.6 Pushes AI Deeper Into Professional Work
OpenAI’s newest model family emphasizes finished artifacts, tool use and longer-running work rather than another round of better chat answers.
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Investors Are Still Betting Billions on Alternatives to Nvidia
SambaNova’s $1 billion Series F first close values the inference company at $11 billion and shows how much capital is still chasing alternatives to the dominant GPU stack.
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GPT-Live Makes Voice AI More Conversational—and More Present
OpenAI’s new voice models can listen and speak at the same time, maintain conversational flow and hand difficult questions to a frontier model in the background.
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Claude Sonnet 5 Brings Agentic Performance Down the Cost Curve
Anthropic’s newest Sonnet model approaches the agentic performance of its more expensive Opus tier while becoming the default for free and paid individual users.
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Eliyan’s Funding Shows the AI Bottleneck Is Moving Between Chips
The interconnect startup’s $50 million strategic financing from major chip and cloud companies highlights a constraint that faster processors cannot solve alone: moving data across an AI system.