AI
GPT-6 Astra Arrives With a Focus on Finishing the Job
OpenAI's new flagship targets complex work across apps. Its staged rollout brings stronger coding, higher token prices, and a harder oversight problem.
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Healthcare IT
ChatGPT for Healthcare Reaches Epic—Read Only
OpenAI's enterprise workspace can now read authorized Epic charts through FHIR R4 and OAuth. The read-only limit is the point.
AI
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3: Fewer Calls, Longer Leashes
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 cuts tool calls 20% and tokens 25% for agentic coding, holding prices flat while max reasoning waits on safety tests.
AI
Fable 5.1: Cheaper to Run, Fewer False Flags, and It Wrote This Post
Claude Fable 5.1 keeps Fable 5's list price, cuts cache reads 75%, loosens cyber safeguards, and is the first Claude model whose text carries a watermark.
Technology
'Backwards and Poor': Trump Picks a Side in the Data Center Revolt
Trump told communities fighting AI data centers to 'let Data Reign' — against Gallup majorities, a GOP governor's freeze, and his own party's Ohio polling.
AI
Nvidia's $12.9B Run at Hugging Face Puts the AI Commons in Play
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. Nothing is signed, and the neutrality of open AI's default hub is now the question.
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OpenAI Plans to End Its Model Deal With SpaceX-Owned Cursor
OpenAI plans to end bundled model access in Cursor after SpaceX’s $60 billion takeover. Cursor says OpenAI is 5% of traffic, but the platform bargain is over.
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$150,000 a Song: Sony and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic
All three majors' publishing arms are now suing the Claude maker. The new complaint names two co-founders personally and seeks up to $150,000 per song.
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'Not a Blank Check': Judge Voids the Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation of Anthropic unconstitutional — First Amendment retaliation dressed as national security.
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Bill Gates Says AI's 'Bad Stuff Is Imminent.' He Wants a Plan.
Gates says the industry is downplaying AI risks it privately fears, and proposes token taxes, 'Human Reserved' jobs, and new national and global institutions.