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Glass office building at 1515 Third Street in San Francisco's Mission Bay, home to OpenAI's headquarters

BusinessNews

OpenAI nears $30B raise at a $1.25T valuation

OpenAI is close to raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, led by UAE investors and Coatue, as a bridge ahead of a potential IPO, according to CNBC's sources.

· 2 min read

METR logo on a light grey background

ResearchNews

METR and Redwood find gaps in OpenAI's agent monitoring

Two outside researchers spent three weeks inside OpenAI trying to break the system that watches its internal agents. They found several new vulnerabilities, including one that could hide hundreds of agent actions.

· 3 min read

Hugging Face card for the XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4B-Base model on a blue and orange gradient

ModelsNews

iFlytek Spark X2.6: an MoE model trained on Chinese chips

iFlytek unveiled Spark X2.6 on October 22: a 293B-parameter MoE model with a 1-million-token context, trained entirely on domestic Chinese chips according to the company. A 4B on-device sibling is open under Apache 2.0.

· 2 min read

Anthropic logo in black on a cream background

ToolsNews

Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the AAIF

Anthropic is handing the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation. SKILL.md based skills already run on more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor and GitHub Copilot.

· 2 min read

OlmoEarth 1.3 logo below a pixelated globe showing the Americas and Africa in green, blue and pink

ResearchNews

OlmoEarth v1.3: open satellite embeddings for all of Earth

Ai2 released OlmoEarth v1.3, a satellite embedding model, together with precomputed 10 meter annual embeddings for the whole planet and a browser-based explorer. Weights, training data and code are all open.

· 3 min read

SpaceX logo with the text Super Intelligence Partner Network in white on a black background

BusinessNews

xAI launches a partner network for enterprise Grok

xAI launched the SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network, its official program for companies building products and services on Grok. More than 130 companies took part in the early-access phase.

· 2 min read

NVIDIA Minerva dashboards with telemetry charts, a GPU health grid and an AI assistant panel in front of data center racks

ToolsNews

NVIDIA Minerva brings AIOps to AI factories

At GTC Berlin NVIDIA launched Minerva, an AIOps platform that unifies infrastructure and workload telemetry for AI factories. Purpose-built AI models filter alerts, predict failures and point to the likely root cause.

· 2 min read

Claude Duet app icon: a black looped line over an orange circle on a white rounded square

ToolsNews

Claude Duet: Anthropic's proactive agent app

Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a standalone app where Claude reaches out when something needs you and keeps working in the background on its own machine.

· 2 min read

Reactive Optimizers preview: static versus agent-rewritten optimizer code and a LightningDiT training loss chart

ResearchNews

OPAL: an agent rewrites the optimizer mid-training

Xingjian Bai and colleagues built an optimizer where a coding agent watches training and rewrites the update rule on the fly. Without a tuned recipe, it matches or beats off-the-shelf ones.

· 2 min read

Artificial Analysis announcement graphic for AA-PersonalityBench

ResearchNews

AA-PersonalityBench: how sycophantic are AI models?

Artificial Analysis has a new benchmark that measures the communication style of 38 AI models across 30 personality traits, sycophancy included. GPT-4o flatters most, Grok 4.7 least.

· 2 min read