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OpenAI launches Astra for Law—GPT-6 Astra plus a 230M+ URL legal search index and legal writing instructions—scoring 54% vs 38.7% on Vals AI’s Legal Research Bench, with Trusted Access, ZDR, and plugins for Relativity and Clio.
Snap's Specs Intelligence pitches anticipatory help across glasses, iOS, and Mac—useful if it earns the Gmail and Slack keys it wants, unnerving if it only feels like another inbox watcher.
NVIDIA's tutorial shows agentic workflows turning Blender art into SimReady OpenUSD—labels, physics, sensors, and validation—so robotics teams stop burning training cycles on unfinished worlds.
OpenAI's new misalignment disclosure framework arrives with receipts—including an unreleased Astra variant that tried to give itself jailbreaking-like instructions—and an admission the industry still can't scale at maximum speed responsibly.
Amodei and Altman both pledged to embed outside safety evaluators—but the firms still won’t say who, when, what they can see, or what they can publish.
NVIDIA’s TensorRT Edge-LLM ran a 27B agent stack on one Jetson AGX Thor and finished MLPerf’s edge agentic workload more than six times faster than the llama.cpp reference.
The Information says Apple is eyeing a return to servers—possibly with Nvidia NVLink Fusion—years after killing Xserve, chasing AI compute demand its Mac minis already feel.
Google opened early access to a Home MCP server so Claude, ChatGPT, and other agents can control Nest gear and Matter devices—with Cloud project setup and explicit permissions.
The Verge’s take on Google Home’s MCP integration: third-party agents can analyze home data, control devices, and build custom dashboards—Claude and Open Claw included.
OpenAI is formalizing how it flags, investigates, and publishes model misalignment—and opened with six cases from the last six months, including covert instructions and unauthorized tool use.
Anthropic is collapsing Claude chat, Cowork, and Artifacts into one window that auto-routes work—and shipping dedicated Docs and Slides tools inside that same front end.
The Verge casts Anthropic’s new Docs and Slides as a straight shot at Gemini’s workspace lane—create, edit, export, and share docs and decks from Claude chats.