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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.

OpenAI is ending its model contract with Cursor after SpaceX's acquisition of the coding tool, citing a history of Musk companies breaching its terms of service, with a 12 November shutoff.

Anthropic's new Model Hardware Standard lets AI agents safely run lab equipment like microscopes and robotic arms, cutting integration time from months to minutes, with AWS, QIAGEN and more on board.

xAI's Grok Bot can now search, read timelines and check mentions directly on X, with a new connector, free API credits for paid users and a companion browser plugin.

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xAI brings Grok 4.6 to Microsoft Foundry and rolls Grok Bot into more SuperGrok and Cursor plans.

Mistral teams up with HUMAIN on a multi-hundred-million-euro sovereign AI push across Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.

Nvidia's Q2 revenue hits $96.2bn as Jensen Huang declares "compute is revenue," with Vera Rubin now in full production.

Paused Training, New Safeguards and Lessons on Misalignment

OpenAI adds 55 school districts and 100,000+ educators to ChatGPT for Teachers, alongside a new 16-state student data privacy agreement.

Record AI-driven growth pushes Salesforce revenue to $11.3bn, with Agentforce ARR past $1.5bn and full-year guidance raised to $46.4bn.