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NYC-based Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4x less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on agentic tasks — Reflection AI, the startup billing itself as America's answer to open-source Chinese AI, is releasing its first model, called Beam.
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X: @mishalaskin, @artificialanlys, @real_ioannis, @reflection_ai, @nayshins, @kimmonismus, @brandondamos, @eliebakouch, @iscienceluvr, @alexpolozov, @gneubig, @alexfinn, @jeremiahdillon, @sriramk, @djlougen, @ziqiao_ma, @zkwentz, @deryatr_, @amasad, @davemorin, @chetantekur, @alfred_lin, @stephzhan, @saranormous, @brianzhan1, @jeremiahdillon, @teortaxestex, @dexhorthy, @zkwentz, @demian_ai, @ccatalini, @natolambert, @_ghorbani, @dsrubinstein, @alexeheath, @clementdelangue, @theahmadosman, @dee_bosa, @ollama, and @natolambert
LinkedIn: Peter Pritchard and Emre Guven
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Sources: DeepSeek is close to raising $12B+ in a round that could reach ~$14.9B, with Tencent and CATL as the biggest contributors, ahead of an early-2027 IPO — DeepSeek is close to securing at least 80 billion yuan ($12 billion) in its latest round of funding, blowing past …
More: CTech, Reuters, Seoul Economic Daily, The Straits Times, and RuntimeWire
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TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed — TikTok announced Monday that it's launching an AI shopping assistant and a new in-app checkout feature that lets users buy directly from brands.
More: TikTok, Social Media Today, PYMNTS.com, WeRSM, and Unite.AI
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To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI plans to add text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU and an opt-in setting for API customers globally — - Starting today, API customers globally will be able to opt in to text watermarking for select models.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, and r/OpenAI
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Sources: Meta and Microsoft are working to cut internal Claude use; Meta employees using Claude Code dropped to ~30,000 from ~60,000 earlier in 2026 — Meta Platforms and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest corporate customers, are working to cut their employees' use of Claude …
More: PYMNTS.com, The Decoder, and DigiTimes
| SemiAnalysis: |
Analysis: Anthropic's subscriptions offer ~5x more API-equivalent value per month than OpenAI's for agentic workloads with Claude Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6.1 Sol — Limit testing every AI subscription plan from Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI, MiniMax, Moonshot, Z.ai, Cursor, and Cognition
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| Bloomberg: |
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety — Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that the race to develop artificial intelligence poses risks that the industry itself …
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X: @jessyednews, @hadas_gold, @nyccouncil, @speakermenin, @ossechi, @cameronwilson, @nyccouncil, @nyccouncil, @firesidealpha, @sen_gounardes, @vmmaloney, @cmcarlwilson, and @vmmaloney. Bluesky: @lorak. Forums: r/Economics
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X: @taylorlorenz, @jasminewsun, @dylanmatt, @laurengoode, @speakermenin, @sharongoldman, @teortaxestex, @david_kasten, @taylorlorenz, and @heidykhlaaf. Forums: r/technology
| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z — For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant who uses math and data to guide his investment decisions. And for a while, he was one.
More: SiliconANGLE. X: @suhasasumukh, @ghostai, @lucasquan, @jamdac, @joshelman, @ccatalini, @gautam_sharda_, @zainmfj, @0xsero, @kirbyman01, and @jamdac. LinkedIn: Zain Javaid
| Jason Shubnell / The Block: |
The CFTC proposes a federal framework for crypto exchanges to offer retail customers leveraged and margined spot trading, without requiring congressional action — The agency floated a new “crypto asset market” exchange category but said it can't require crypto to trade on CFTC platforms without Congress.| Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: |
ChatGPT is not only using New Yorker cartoonists' style but also adding their signatures to the fake cartoons it creates, which have gone viral on social media — OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
SpaceX stock closes up 7.6% after Morgan Stanley called SPCX “cheap”, reaching its highest level since mid-June and returning Elon Musk to trillionaire status — SpaceX shares rose almost 8% on Monday, reaching their highest since mid-June, shortly after Elon Musk's company held its record initial public offering.
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Bluesky: @masnick.com and @davelee.me
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Sources: Seagate and Toshiba are bidding for TDK's HDD magnetic head business in a multibillion-dollar deal, as they compete for AI data center storage demand — Seagate Technology Holdings Plc and Toshiba Corp. are locked in a contest for TDK Corp.'s magnetic-heads business for hard-disk drives … | Lee Harris / Financial Times: |
Analysis: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar claims caused by rogue AI agents, amid concern that Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and others could be held liable — Insurers and lawyers weigh the cost of potential massive lawsuits and damages against the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Senator Adam Schiff on recursive AI becoming a real national security threat, making AI companies retain training data, needing an FDA for AI, and more — Today, I'm talking with Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Sen. Schiff sits on a number of committees … | Vanity Fair: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on his kids, his rivalries, pronatalism, “prepping” for the apocalypse, new products, the IPO delay, Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, and more — In an exclusive video interview, the OpenAI CEO discusses ChatGPT and suicide prevention, safety breaches …
More: The Verge, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Variety, The Wrap, IndieWire, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller, San Francisco Chronicle, Just Jared, ScreenRant, Business Insider, HuffPost, Kotaku, and Reality Tea
X: @vanityfair, @saintdutchess, @ledwards, @emkenobi, @hesamation, @michaelscherer, @benmullin, @dpyoung13, @richardhanania, @chrisharihar, @justinkirkland4, @thetnholler, @jonhernandezia, @codytfenwick, @katiemiller, @stevecla, @dylanbyers, @vanityfair, @ashleymayer, @vanityfair, @katiemiller, @elise_jordan, @aidnmclaughlin, @vanityfair, @viacristiano, @vanityfair, @vanityfair, @vanityfair, @vanityfair, and @vanityfair. Forums: r/singularity
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