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Browse the news archive →US firms are quietly moving inference to Chinese models to cut cost
The Financial Times documented a broad enterprise shift to Chinese open-weight models — DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM — as inference bills overtake other line items.
Paper documents 30+ prompt-injection CVEs across AI coding IDEs
A systematic arXiv analysis of agentic coding assistants catalogs the CVEs disclosed against Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf and others — including a working GitHub Copilot privilege-escalation chain.
OpenAI ships ChatGPT Work, a persistent agent that owns a deliverable for hours
OpenAI turned ChatGPT into a workplace execution layer, not a chat surface — the agent takes a goal and returns finished spreadsheets, decks, docs and web apps.
GPT-5.6 Sol becomes Microsoft 365 Copilot's preferred model on launch day
OpenAI shipped the GPT-5.6 family in three tiers — Sol, Terra, Luna — and it landed simultaneously as the preferred model inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and as a user-selectable option in GitHub Copilot.
Microsoft stands up a 6,000-person AI deployment firm to compete with Accenture
Microsoft announced Frontier Company on July 2 — a $2.5B operating business that embeds 6,000 engineers and industry specialists inside enterprise customers to build and run AI systems on-site.
FT: OpenAI and Google are selling AI to Singapore units of Pentagon-blacklisted Chinese firms
The Financial Times reported Friday that OpenAI and Google confirmed supplying AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent — three groups on the Pentagon's 1260H list for alleged PLA links.
JPMorgan's AI agents beat the 60/40 by 70 basis points in twenty-year backtests
JPMorgan researchers built AI agents that allocate between stocks and bonds by market regime — and in backtests the best system beat a traditional 60/40 by 0.7 percentage points a year with lower volatility, Bloomberg reported.
OpenAI ships GPT-Live, ending the turn-taking era of voice AI
OpenAI replaced ChatGPT's voice mode on Wednesday with a full-duplex model that listens and speaks simultaneously and hands hard questions to GPT-5.5 in the background.
SpaceXAI and Cursor ship Grok 4.5, an "Opus-class" coding model at a fraction of the price
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on Tuesday as its first model since the SpaceX-xAI merger and Cursor acquisition — a mixture-of-experts model trained jointly with Cursor and priced well under Anthropic's flagship.
Beijing readies a permit-based reopening of Nvidia H200 sales to Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek
The Information reported Wednesday that China will let a small group of top AI firms buy a limited number of Nvidia H200 chips — the first named softening of Beijing's block on imported American accelerators.
OpenAI publishes national-security principles as its Pentagon and allied-government book grows
OpenAI published its National Security Principles Tuesday, formalizing the terms under which it sells to governments as it expands cyber and biosecurity work with US and allied agencies.
Brussels turns the AI Act's cyber requirements into a market for evaluations and structured access
The European Commission presented its Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence on 7 July, operationalizing the AI Act's pre-market model-evaluation requirement rather than proposing new legislation.