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David Robinson, who recently departed OpenAI, describes how the company now deploys new capabilities and associated risks every week through reasoning updates, tool integrations, and coding agents—a pace that outstrips safety testing.
The company released Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday with dramatic price reductions and new effort controls, positioning its most affordable model for high-speed agent work and computer-use applications.
Dell Technologies has unveiled new components for its AI Data Platform aimed at supporting agentic systems that can reason and act autonomously. The additions include semantic layer capabilities, knowledge graphs and agents designed to streamline how enterprises prepare and serve data to AI models.
MasterClass is building AI teaching agents that adapt to individual student needs, aiming to make one-on-one instruction more affordable and accessible. The effort is driving CoreWeave's production AI infrastructure as companies move beyond experimental deployments.
The enterprise software giant is buying the Belgian AI startup to ground its HR agents in real workplace context, aiming to reduce token consumption and operational costs.
At its Las Vegas Connect event, SAP is moving from strategy to execution with new AI assistants for back-office operations, a payments service, and plans to acquire workforce intelligence platform TechWolf.
An unauthorized WebAssembly conversion of Grand Theft Auto V appeared online briefly before being taken offline, raising questions about how AI is reshaping game development timelines and the limits of browser-based gaming.
Elon Musk has pledged to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI in alignment with President Trump's executive directive to replace the term "Artificial Intelligence" with "Super Intelligence" across federal agencies.
