OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost  —  GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrive less than three months after GPT-5.6, with OpenAI claiming major accuracy gains, dramatic cost reductions …

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's “pace the frontier” essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior  —  Claude Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain behaviors, like attempting to escape testing environments.

Patreon co-founder Sam Yam says he is joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product, alongside Patreon's Head of Product Drew Rowny and Head of Engineering Shannon Ma  —  1/ I'm joining @OpenAI to lead Creator Product after over 13 years since starting @Patreon. Coming with me are my favorite crew Drew Rowny and Shannon Ma, Patreon's (now former) Head of Product and Head of Engineering. We're going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to ...

The US criticizes Australia's digital duty-of-care proposal, which has a provision that would require social media platforms to let users opt out of algorithms  —  The US government criticized Australia's plan to clamp down on social media algorithms and harmful content online …

Gallup survey of 37 countries: in 34, positive AI sentiment outweighed the negative; 90%+ of people in China and 66%+ in Nigeria say AI will improve daily life  —  A Gallup poll found that a majority of people surveyed across 37 countries said they were curious or excited about artificial intelligence, more than scared or worried.

Sources: China's SASAC, which oversees state-owned companies, is surveying the number of Broadcom switches in state-backed data centers amid a domestic AI drive  —  Survey comes amid drive to boost domestic players and reduce reliance on foreign AI infrastructure

Xbox has become a shell of its former self, weighed down by job cuts and studio closures, as it focuses on franchises like Halo and reaching “a billion people”  —  The latest changes at Microsoft's gaming division signal a further retreat from the Xbox brand.

ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data, and also defaced the FBI jobs site  —  A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chips  —  Chinese tech giant was AI cloud provider's largest customer last year but is not prominently named in pitch to stock market investors

Discord is rolling out its updated age-verification policy this week, sorting users into either the Adult or Teen group based on account age, activity, and more  —  It will offer several privacy-focused options for users who aren't automatically confirmed as adults.

San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market  —  The city attorney argued that the service, available for up to $100,000 a month, could allow wealthy traders to manipulate the market …

Anthropic and OpenEvidence partner to offer a specialized version of OpenEvidence's AI search tool for physicians in about 100 low- and middle-income countries  —  Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic and medical knowledge platform OpenEvidence are collaborating to bring AI-powered …

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores  —  Extreme by name, extreme by nature  —  Qualcomm has announced not one, but two new flagship mobile chipsets at its annual Snapdragon Summit …

Sources: Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor  —  THE SCOOP  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for President Donald Trump's new “AI czar” …

The UK CMA proposes rules requiring Google and Android OEMs to offer search choice screens on first use and via yearly prompts, new AI assistant rules, and more  —  It would also require smartphone makers to give users a choice of AI assistants.  —  The UK's Competition and Markets Authority …

NADI, a new DARPA-like Dutch government agency, launches a €40M challenge to accelerate chip design with AI in collaboration with its German counterpart SPRIND  —  A new Dutch government agency set up to achieve strategic innovation will work with its German counterpart to pursue breakthroughs …

Seattle-based satellite startup Hubble, which is working to enable global Bluetooth connectivity, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation, for $300M in total funding  —  Satellite startup Hubble Network raised $200 million in a new funding round, taking the company's valuation to $1.6 billion …

Ema, which uses AI agents to automate corporate processes across HR, IT, and finance, raised a $77M Series B led by Creaegis, taking its total funding to $140M  —  Ema, a startup that uses teams of AI agents to automate corporate processes across HR, IT, and finance, has raised $77 million …

Bessemer raised $5.75B, allocating $4B to growth-stage funding, including young companies raising large rounds at high valuations, and $1.75B for early-stage  —  Bessemer Venture Partners is set to announce $5.75 billion in fresh funding to support a broader shift towards more growth stage investments …

Sony Music becomes the first music company to join ARIAM, which advocates for responsible AI adoption in the creative industry and includes the NYT and Disney  —  Sony Music Group has joined the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media (ARIAM), becoming the first music company …

London-based AI life sciences startup Basecamp Research raised a $140M Series C led by S32, with participation from Anthropic, taking its total funding to $225M  —  Basecamp says it will use the funding to train a new generation of its AI models.  —  A UK life sciences startup using AI …

A Facebook co-founder proposes creating an “Office of AI Supervision” to embed teams inside frontier AI labs, with a three-year term to avoid regulatory capture  —  Both industries change rapidly and reach throughout the economy, requiring officials to weigh the benefits of innovation against risks

Chinese chip foundry CanSemi, focused on automotive, industrial, and IoT chips, files for an IPO on Shenzhen stock exchange's ChiNext, seeking to raise ~$919M  —  Chinese chip foundry CanSemi Technology Inc. is seeking to raise about 6.16 billion yuan ($919 million) in an initial public offering …

Anthropic reported disrupting a Beijing-aligned operation to monitor religious leaders and diaspora communities, including a DC-based advocacy group for Tibet  —  Anthropic uncovers a Beijing-aligned operation targeting my organization among other dissidents.

Analysis: 30 Chinese tech stocks with the largest overseas revenue exposure returned 36% YTD, outperforming the 8% return from domestically dependent peers  —  China's push for global AI supremacy is increasingly benefiting companies that supply the rest of the world, with investors favoring …

German publisher C.H.BECK takes a majority stake in Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents and raised a $100M+ Series C  —  The German legal AI company is deepening its ties with European publishers as it expands across the continent and takes on US competitors.

Portuguese surveillance drone maker Tekever raised $580M ed by UC Investments at a $6.4B valuation, after securing a UK MOD contract worth £400M over 10 years  —  Tekever, a Portuguese developer of surveillance drones, is seeking acquisitions after the first close of a funding round that targets raising $580 million.

OpenAI says it will give its AI cyber defense system Daybreak and GPT-5.6 Sol to the Ukrainian government for free to help it protect civilian infrastructure  —  The tech giant OpenAI will share its AI cyber defence system Daybreak for free with the Ukraine government to help …