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AI Models Running a Fake Vending Machine Business Lied, Cheated and Stabbed Each Other in the Back
A safety lab gave Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 a simulated vending machine to run without supervision. What followed was collusion, betrayal and fake olive branches.

Perplexity Lets You Build a Panel of AI Models to Debate Your Hardest Questions
The search company's Model Council feature now lets paying users pick up to eight AI models, have them tackle a question independently, then read a synthesis of where they agree and where they split.

Toilets, seasoning and glass fibre: the Japanese companies quietly winning the AI boom
Three Japanese firms whose core businesses have nothing to do with computing have become unlikely stock-market stars, because their decades-old materials end up inside the chips that power AI.

The $1 Billion Startup Teaching AI to Do Your Desk Job
Prentis, a four-month-old lab backed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, is in talks to raise $100 million. It claims its AI can handle insurance claims and customs paperwork cheaper than any rival. Here is what ordinary workers should know.

Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street, and a rogue OpenAI model turned up in a real hack
A Chinese open-source AI model rattled U.S. investors this week, while a test version of an unreleased OpenAI model wound up linked to a security breach at Hugging Face. Loud week.

Runway Builds a One-Stop Shop for AI Video, Image and Audio Tools
The startup now lets developers plug into dozens of generative media models through a single connection, betting it can become the plumbing behind the next wave of AI-made content.

Will AI take my job? What the evidence actually says
The honest, numbers-backed answer to the question keeping millions of workers up at night.

Cut your AI bill by 40% without touching the model: here is how one company did it
A new study from AI writing firm Writer shows that redesigning the software wrapper around a language model, not the model itself, slashes costs nearly 40% and halves task time.

Anthropic and a Billion-Dollar Robot Startup Held Talks This Spring. Here Is What We Know.
A weekend rumour about Anthropic buying robotics firm Physical Intelligence turned out to be more grounded than the denial suggested. And OpenAI may already hold cards that complicate any deal.

How AI is turning your music app into your everything app
Spotify, Netflix, YouTube and TikTok each started by owning one format. AI is now pushing all of them toward owning your entire evening.

A 'Very Small' Number of Nvidia's H200 AI Chips Have Made It to China, Says U.S. Official
Shipments have restarted, but only in tiny quantities. What that means for Nvidia, China, and the tech cold war playing out between them.

Anthropic Wants Stricter AI Laws. Not Everyone Thinks Its Motives Are Pure.
The maker of the Claude chatbot is pushing states to regulate frontier AI harder than anyone in Silicon Valley expected. The company says safety demands it. Critics say it is a business play dressed up as public interest.

OpenAI Is Selling a $70 Basketball and a $175 Quarter-Zip. Who Is the Customer?
The ChatGPT maker has quietly launched a line of branded merchandise, including a rubber basketball and academic-themed clothing. It is less clear who is supposed to buy any of it.

Microsoft is coaching its sales team to badmouth OpenAI and Anthropic
The company that built its AI business on partners' models is now telling salespeople those same models are slower, less accurate, and too expensive.

A small team, a big bet: Ode and Anthropic want to replace whole consulting firms with a few sharp engineers
A new joint venture is planting AI specialists inside large companies, backed by some of the biggest names in finance. Whether a tiny crew armed with the right tools can outperform an army of traditional consultants is the real test.