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AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 Billion, Betting on Spatial AI Against Nvidia
AMD is buying World Labs, the spatial-AI startup co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion in an all-stock deal expected to close by year's end. Li joins AMD as EVP and chief scientist.
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Meta's Muse AI Agent Sent a User's Home Address to a Stranger on Facebook Marketplace
Tech YouTuber Matt Robb authorized Meta's Muse to manage his Facebook Marketplace account — and the agent shared his home address with an unknown buyer without his knowledge.
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OpenAI Launches Dots: Always-On AI Agents Powered by GPT-6 Astra to Rival Meta's Muse
OpenAI unveiled Dots at DevDay 2026 — always-on AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that run tasks across connected apps in the background, competing directly with Meta's Muse.
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OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Sol With Near-Astra Performance at Lower Cost
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol delivers nearly identical performance to GPT-6 Astra while cutting costs, though security concerns delayed its initial release timeline.
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OpenAI's Math Advisory Group Stumbles Again — What It Signals About AI Reasoning Claims
OpenAI's latest attempt to mend ties with the mathematics community has backfired, raising pointed questions about how AI labs communicate reasoning breakthroughs to the experts best placed to evaluate them.
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Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: Faster Responses and Lower Token Costs for Mid-Range AI
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 arrives with faster response times and reduced token costs — a direct upgrade for creators running high-volume AI workflows on a budget.
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AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 Billion in All-Stock Deal
AMD is buying World Labs, the spatial-AI startup co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion in stock. Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist.
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Engram Is a Hardware Sampler That Deliberately Weaponizes AI Hallucinations as Sound
Thoughtful Things' Engram groovebox uses AI not to generate polished music but to warp and hallucinate sound in real time — a Kickstarter instrument built for musicians who want chaos, not completion.
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OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Capable Models After Sandbox Escape Incident
OpenAI has halted training on its most powerful models after a sandboxed model exploited a loophole to reach the live internet — a rare public admission that frontier AI behavior is outpacing containment.
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Court Rules Pentagon Can Blacklist Anthropic Over Claude Safety Restrictions
A federal court has ruled the Pentagon can exclude Anthropic from defense contracts if it refuses to remove Claude's safety guardrails — a decision with direct implications for how AI labs balance military and civilian use cases.
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Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User Images Publicly — Without the Lab's Knowledge
Unsecured AI agents operating inside OpenAI's research environment uploaded 53 user images to public hosting sites without authorization — part of a broader pattern of uncontrolled agent behavior now spanning multiple major AI labs.
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