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Nvidia reportedly in early talks to buy, acquihire or invest more in Reflection AI
Nvidia Corp. is in early talks to acquire open-weight model developer Reflection AI Inc. or invest more in the startup, according to the Financial Times.

[AINews] Claude Haiku 5.5 — better than GPT-6 Luna at the same pricing
It’s been about a year since Anthropic shipped Haiku 4.5, and with successive launches of Sonnet and Opus and Fable up to 5.5 it was seeming a little forgotten, especially as OpenAI launched Luna 6 alongside Astra and Sol 6.

Building advertising for the way people use AI
OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.
Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery
Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery

Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
“Now the AI models are getting capable, the robot hardware is getting capable, and a thing we thought is going to be the next bottleneck is safety,” Amit Goel, head of robotics ecosystem and edge computing at Nvidia, told Ars. “So that's why we launched our Halos for Robotics to unlock the capability of these systems.”
OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected
It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.
Beyond hours saved: Building the business case for agentic automation
In this post, we introduce a framework AI CoE leaders can use to build a business case that captures the full value of agentic automation.

Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI
Subscription plans are still the primary way consumers and small businesses pay for AI.
Expanding our enterprise inference capacity with IBM Cloud and NVIDIA
Enterprises can now run open models at production scale on a dedicated B300 inference cluster, built by Together AI, IBM Cloud, and NVIDIA
What's up with google scholar citations ? [D]
These papers have been there for months, but Google Scholar still has not updated its citations, and it has occurred before, but I ignored it and thought it was a one-time error.
AMD Reportedly Raises GDDR6 Prices for Board Partners
Is an AMD price incoming as well?

[AINews] TypeSafe/Jev at >$100M ARR, $7.5B valuation 3 weeks after launch
As you can see in the AINews X recap section below, everyone on earth has cloned the Jev API, but only one company can ever create the category.
A Comparative Study of Evaluation Metrics for Long-Document Financial Narrative Summarization with Transformers
In addition, we considered multiple evaluation metrics in order to investigate their differing behaviour and applicability on a dataset from the Financial Narrative Summarisation (FNS 2020) shared task, which is composed of annual reports published by firms listed on the London Stock Exchange and their corresponding summaries.
🔮 AI & Math 2.0, Pakistan’s solar hedge & who controls computing++
“I’ve worked in the tech industry for the last 10 years, and Exponential View has guided me and helped me think much larger than I otherwise would have.” — Nicky B., a paying member

6 Guidelines for Governing AI
Today I lead enterprise AI transformation at Lowe’s, the Fortune 100 home improvement retailer.
Show HN: OpenChart – OSS TradingView alternative with your own AI agent
Hi HN, I'm Weilun, cofounder of OpenChart.

Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402
Today, we’re making the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway available as part of a closed beta, and showcasing four customer use cases that are in production today.
VideoOpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’
A cracked cipher, an OpenAI security warning, Gemini 4 Argon, RSI paper (co-authored by a who’s who of AI), Lab White House commitments, new hacks emerging, ‘deep personas’, biology Kasparov competitions, and so much more, ending with an epic Opus outro.

What do you want from AI?
We’re launching a new study using Anthropic Interviewer to learn from your experiences with AI, and we’d like you to participate.

AI is getting cheaper faster than any other transformative technology
Because that’s how fast AI is getting cheaper.
ChinAI #376: Around the Horn (27th episode)
...As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here.
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Figure 1: ThinkingBox runs an agent against isolated MCP tool sessions, then grades the terminal backend state and side effects it leaves behind.
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One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact
On July 24, 2025, Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore (MSRA – Singapore) opened its doors as Microsoft’s first research lab in Southeast Asia.

The Era of Personal Super-Intelligent Agents
Meta Muse is now the SOTA in Personal AI agents.

Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.
Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers
We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network.
LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance: Open-source personal finance app with an AI financial advisor: track your net worth, investments, ETFs, cash and debts on your own computer.
Open-source personal finance app with an AI financial advisor: track your net worth, investments, ETFs, cash and debts on your own computer.
Nvidia, Samsung back $90M round for AI agent startup Nous Research
Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding.
Radisson Hotel Group brings hotel discovery into ChatGPT
Radisson partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin using OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning their trips.
Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action
Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to connect frontier models with enterprise knowledge and help teams plan, build, and deliver work.
Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap
Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap
AI agent developer Manus raises $500M+ at reported $4B valuation
Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than $500 million in funding.
LegalOn halves Codex costs while maintaining development speed
LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed.
OpenAI revenue falls short, models play hopscotch and Trump cracks down on tech green cards
OpenAI told investors this week that it actually had $18 billion less revenue than the $68 [...]
How Jump Trading is scaling quant research with ChatGPT
Jump Trading uses OpenAI to expand quantitative research.

Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience
Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience

The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI
Nvidia has just announced that the Shield TV Pro is getting $100 more expensive, effective immediately.
The Den frees up 10-15 hours a week to grow with ChatGPT Work
As it opens a new location, the social club prepares grant applications in 2 hours instead of 3 days and liquor-license materials in 3 hours instead of 4 days.
Building AI builders: Playbook for closing the AI knowledge-capability gap
The biggest barrier to AI adoption isn’t awareness.
Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months
The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.

🔮 The transition is hiding in plain sight #604
We are continuing to push hard on untangling this data and more over at our AI Investment Brief by Exponential View.
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps.
SLM community telenovela: what do you guys think about this arguement?
If there is something I like about the indie SLM community is there is always some drama every week about something.

Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience
Prior to joining Airbnb as CTO in January, Ahmad Al-Dahle was head of generative AI at Meta and led the launch of its open source Llama models over 2023-2025.
[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more
Since our founding in 2024, World Labs has built leading AI spatial intelligence capabilities for everything from creative work to design.
Same-Number Citation Swaps: Stress-Testing Jev as a Financial Evidence Judge
We evaluate what probabilistic evidence verification adds beyond number matching using Jev as a source-support verifier for GPT-4.1-mini calculation traces.