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Reporting on the models, products, companies, and breakthroughs shaping the next phase of AI.
Frontier
4 Checks Before Deploying GPT-6 Astra, the First 'Critical' Cyber Model
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5 as Its New Default for Max
Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5, describing stronger coding and knowledge-work performance at the same price as its predecessor.
Meta Launches Muse Image and Previews Muse Video
Meta introduced its first Superintelligence Labs media models, pairing an available image model with an early video preview.
AI Agents
Foundations
Mistral Expands Regional Inference and European AI Compute Plans
Mistral outlined regional endpoints, third-party open-model support and a roadmap for up to one gigawatt of European AI capacity.
Anthropic Rejects a Blanket Ban on Open-Weights Models
Anthropic said it did not support a categorical ban, while arguing that sufficiently capable open models should face safety testing.
Mistral Releases OCR 4 for Document Intelligence and Retrieval Pipelines
Mistral launched OCR 4 with layout data, typed blocks and confidence scores for search, RAG and document-processing workflows.
Guides
AI Security
EU AI Act Enforcement Starts: 30+ AI Firms Now Face Formal RFIs
Audit .git/config Now: GitSpawn Runs Attacker Code in 4 Unpatched AI Agents
Mistral Releases Shieldstral, a Small Open-Weights Safety Classifier
Mistral released Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal classifier that applies plain-language policies at inference time.
Research
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