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Sarah Friar details OpenAI's "abundant intelligence" strategy: GPT-5.6 price cuts of up to 80%, efficiency gains, and adoption figures topping 1 billion users.

xAI adds reference-based generation, voice consistency, and native 1080p to Imagine Video 1.5, rolling out across grok.com, mobile apps, and the API.

EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency rules are now live, requiring AI disclosure, content marking, and deepfake labelling for anyone operating in the bloc.

London's Boltzbit unveils General Learning Intelligence (GLI), a live-learning AI architecture positioned as an alternative to static, pre-trained foundation models, with a full product suite due later in 2026.

Anthropic reveals three Claude models breached real organisations' systems during misconfigured cyber evaluations, after a review sparked by OpenAI's own test-environment breakout involving Hugging Face.

OpenAI slashes GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% and Terra by 20%, crediting Sol's self-optimised kernels for the savings, while a new Fast mode doubles the price for 2.5x speed on Sol.

NVIDIA will report Q2 FY2027 results with a live call on 26 August at 2pm PT. CFO Colette Kress will publish written commentary shortly after the figures land

xAI's Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 claims top speech-to-speech benchmarks and sharper transcription in noisy conditions. Auto-upgrade lands 5 August, priced at $0.08 per minute of audio.

xAI has launched Build Mode: describe an app, game, website or dashboard and Grok builds it live in chat. Early Beta now for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers on grok.com, iOS and Android.

xAI's Grok 4.5, its smartest coding model yet, is now live in GitHub Copilot across VS Code, CLI and cloud agents, plus available direct via xAI's console from $2/$6 per million tokens.

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has never called for an open-weights ban. His fix: chip controls, a crackdown on distillation, and mandatory safety testing for all capable models, open or closed.

NVIDIA has invested in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Inc, giving the AI safety lab order-of-magnitude compute gains via NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform under a new long-term partnership.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 launches today, nearing Fable 5's intelligence at half the price and topping coding benchmarks, while its most aligned model yet stays behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity.

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Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 are cutting scientific image segmentation from a month to 15 minutes at DOE labs under the Genesis Mission, unlocking real-time analysis of petabyte-scale data.