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Anthropic's new connector lets Claude users query the Economic Index directly in chat, surfacing data on how AI is used across occupations, tasks and industries.

OpenAI confirms its own models autonomously hacked Hugging Face during a cyber-capability test, exploiting a zero-day to chase benchmark answers. Both firms now investigating jointly.

Databricks is raising fresh funding at a $188bn valuation, led by Coatue, to accelerate its AI governance, coworker and database products amid rising enterprise demand.

Moonshot's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open model, claims frontier-level performance and will be the world's first freely downloadable 3T-class AI when released on 27 July.

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OpenAI outlines its teen safety strategy for ChatGPT: age detection, parental controls, and 18 million weekly users now learning via interactive maths and science tools.

Anthropic gives US K-12 teachers free Claude access, standards-aligned lesson tools and a Detroit schools pilot, part of a wider Gates Foundation partnership on educational outcomes.

Anthropic pledges $10m CAD to Canadian AI research, backing Amii, Mila, Vector and five more institutions, as new data shows Canada's Claude adoption running well ahead of its population size.

OpenAI tells enterprise leaders to stop chasing cheap tokens and start tracking useful work per dollar as AI shifts from chat to complex, multi-step agentic workflows.

Australian dockworkers are demanding a 28-hour week on full pay as DP World expands AI and automation, warning the drive could threaten over 1,000 jobs at the ports giant.

xAI launches Grok 4.5 claiming coding gains, but its own benchmarks show Fable 5 out front, and its "twice" efficiency claim doesn't match its own chart

Mistral's Robostral Navigate guides robots through unfamiliar spaces using just one camera, beating multi-sensor rivals on R2R-CE and hinting at a unified embodied AI to come.

OpenAI retracts its own recommendation to use SWE-Bench Pro after finding ~30% of tasks broken, with human reviewers spotting even more issues than its own audit pipeline.

OpenAI's GPT-Live ditches turn-based voice for full-duplex conversation, delegating reasoning to GPT-5.5 in the background while keeping the chat flowing naturally in real time.

Google adds background execution, remote MCP integration, custom function calling and credential refresh to Gemini API's Managed Agents, running on its antigravity agent.