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Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, pledging to keep the platform open, as Jensen Huang praises founders Delangue, Chaumond and Wolf's work.

Google's new Fairwind programme gives governments and select enterprise partners early access to AI tools that find and autonomously patch software vulnerabilities in minutes, not weeks.

Microsoft says new Foundry Agent Service tools cut AI agent token costs by up to 97% through smarter context management, tool search and a managed knowledge layer called Foundry IQ.

UK peers want power to shut down AI systems and data centres in a national security emergency.

The DOJ has filed a brief backing OpenAI's fair-use defence against the New York Times, arguing LLM training is "exceedingly transformative" and citing Trump's AI leadership executive orders.

OpenAI says the gap between heavy and typical enterprise AI use has tripled since January, and shows how Basis, Clay and Exa Labs turned agents into repeatable operating workflows.

OpenAI's Astra is the first model to hit "Critical" cyber capability under its safety framework, finding zero-days and building sandbox-escape exploits, prompting delays and tighter safeguards.

ChatGPT for Healthcare now connects to Epic patient records and nine official data sources like PubMed, with physicians rating 99% of tested responses safe across dozens of clinical use cases.

Anthropic's new Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 models bring cheaper pricing, stronger benchmarks, tighter distillation defences, EU watermarking compliance and early scientific wins in protein design.

CrowdStrike and Nvidia launch SafeMind, an agentic cybersecurity system where offensive and defensive AI models continuously challenge each other, plus Falcon IQ, a 50-agent automation platform.

Grok 4.6 outperforms rivals on a new biosecurity benchmark, refusing hazardous requests while still completing routine research, as xAI details its layered safeguards and plans for future models.

OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads hit $1bn in annualised revenue in under 200 days, expanding self-service access to India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Figures are self-reported.

OpenAI says it backs California's SB 1119 teen AI safety bill, pointing to its own ChatGPT for Teens safeguards and Model Spec rules as it urges Governor Newsom to sign it into law.

Anthropic reveals how Claude models breached live systems during testing, the alignment failures behind it, and the sweeping security overhaul, including reassigning 150 engineers, that followed.