Lark Pemberton

Covers breaking AI news and writes the daily Brief.

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Brief OpenAI’s Images 2.6 adds GIFs and says it is 50% faster Nov. 5, 2026, 5:30 a.m. CT
Brief Tencent unveils Hy4 as Moonshot posts Kimi K3.1 Pro weights Nov. 4, 2026, 5:30 p.m. CT
Brief Microsoft set to close $25 billion bond sale as AI spending climbs Nov. 4, 2026, 7 a.m. CT
Brief Apple opens Siri AI to apps that adopt App Intents in beta Nov. 3, 2026, 6:30 p.m. CT
Brief Deep Principle posts Hydrogen-1.0 science model on GLM-5.3 Nov. 3, 2026, 5:30 a.m. CT
Brief Meituan’s LongCat-2.5 aims at long coding jobs and 3D work Nov. 2, 2026, 5:45 p.m. CT
Brief DeepSeek posts coding agent that opens its own pull requests Nov. 2, 2026, 5:45 a.m. CT
Brief OpenAI curbs weapons details for teens, plans safety reports Oct. 30, 2026, 6 p.m. CT
Brief OpenAI opens election center as midterm voting nears Oct. 30, 2026, 5:45 a.m. CT
Brief Google opens Gemini and Search to outside app developers Oct. 29, 2026, 5:42 p.m. CT
Brief OpenAI widens ServiceNow deal; Nvidia ships speech model Oct. 29, 2026, 5:30 a.m. CT
Brief Cloudflare says a model bug sent users other customers’ data Oct. 28, 2026, 6:05 p.m. CT
Brief Microsoft offers buyouts to about a quarter of its workforce Oct. 28, 2026, 5:20 a.m. CT
Brief Oracle and OpenAI bring ChatGPT and Codex to Oracle business software Oct. 27, 2026, 5:15 p.m. CT
Brief Lenders line up $63 billion for Anthropic’s Broadcom chips Oct. 27, 2026, 5:07 a.m. CT
Brief Sweden’s government offices block ChatGPT and Claude Oct. 26, 2026, 4:47 p.m. CT
Brief Microsoft says China-aligned hackers used AI on ConnectWise Oct. 26, 2026, 5:13 a.m. CT
Brief Claude writes proofs that 239 fuzz tests cannot crash Oct. 23, 2026, 5:06 p.m. CT
Wire Nvidia unveils boxed AI factories it says go live in 14 days Oct. 23, 2026, 5:10 a.m. CT
Brief Uber gives 30,000-plus workers OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work agent Oct. 23, 2026, 5:10 a.m. CT
Brief Meta pauses Muse chat sharing after researchers find links Oct. 22, 2026, 5:04 a.m. CT
Brief Nvidia orders from China top $35 billion, Reuters says Oct. 21, 2026, 5:10 a.m. CT
Wire DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its model-serving engine Oct. 20, 2026, 4:48 p.m. CT
Brief Mastercard opens Agent Pay for Machines to developers Oct. 20, 2026, 4:48 p.m. CT
Wire Anthropic says junior technical hires fell to 9% from 27% Oct. 20, 2026, 5:07 a.m. CT
Wire EU publishes first AI Act harmonized standard, EN 18286:2026 Oct. 20, 2026, 5:07 a.m. CT
Brief Bill Gross opens Idealab.ai with 1.2 million business ideas Oct. 19, 2026, 5 p.m. CT
Brief Anthropic’s Clark says AI could lift US GDP to $44 trillion Oct. 19, 2026, 5:19 a.m. CT
Brief Anthropic opens Singapore office, signs MOU with government Oct. 16, 2026, 5:04 a.m. CT
Brief FTC subpoenas OpenAI, Anthropic in consumer protection probe Oct. 15, 2026, 4:39 p.m. CT
Brief Modal raises $750M; BBC says Anthropic had $16.8B quarter Oct. 15, 2026, 5:43 a.m. CT
Wire Hundreds of scientists urge airgapping cyber-capable AI Oct. 15, 2026, 5:14 a.m. CT
Brief UK MPs hear AI labs split on binding rules Oct. 14, 2026, 5:37 a.m. CT
Brief Nvidia contributes Vera Rubin rack designs to OCP Oct. 12, 2026, 5:20 p.m. CT
Brief Deno team, including Ryan Dahl, is joining Cloudflare Oct. 12, 2026, 5:20 a.m. CT
Brief OpenAI’s Codex starts suggesting next messages in Pro beta Oct. 9, 2026, 5:20 p.m. CT
Brief OpenAI says GPT-6 scored worse on self-harm safety tests Oct. 9, 2026, 5:20 a.m. CT
Brief Google ships EmbeddingGemma 2 under Apache 2.0 Oct. 7, 2026, 5 a.m. CT
Brief Trump names Jay Clayton to lead AI Super Intelligence Force Oct. 6, 2026, 5 a.m. CT
Brief NYC Council puts AI labs under oath as SpaceXAI skips Oct. 5, 2026, 5 p.m. CT
Wire Amazon pledges more than $1B over five years to data-center towns Oct. 5, 2026, 5:45 a.m. CT
Brief Google confirms contact with Project Suncatcher prototype Oct. 5, 2026, 5:45 a.m. CT
Brief Devin now bills OpenAI model use to ChatGPT plans Oct. 2, 2026, 5:11 a.m. CT
Brief OpenAI, Synopsys agree to build GPT-Synopsys for chip design Oct. 1, 2026, 5:19 a.m. CT. Updated 4:55 p.m.
Brief AMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion Sept. 30, 2026, 7:23 a.m. CT. Updated Oct. 1, 5:19 a.m.
Brief AI executives set for White House lunch with Trump, Johnson Sept. 29, 2026, 9:18 a.m. CT. Updated 6:53 p.m.
Product Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5.5 is 30% faster at same price Sept. 28, 2026, 4:47 p.m. CT
Policy Amodei set for first one-on-one Trump dinner, reports say Sept. 28, 2026, 5:13 a.m. CT. Updated Oct. 2, 5:50 p.m.
Brief Anthropic’s $11.6 billion Akamai deal leads Friday’s AI news Sept. 25, 2026, 5:01 p.m. CT
Brief OpenAI asks Texas judge to end Musk firms’ antitrust suit Sept. 25, 2026, 3:24 a.m. CT
Wire Xi tells White House AI must stay under human control Sept. 24, 2026, 5:39 p.m. CT
Brief Altman and Amodei brief UN Security Council on AI risk Sept. 24, 2026, 5:08 a.m. CT
Brief MentalHealthBench, Gemini TTS and Claude Marketplace land Sept. 23, 2026, 5:06 a.m. CT. Updated 4:49 p.m.
Brief Alibaba and Qualcomm unveil new chips on the same day Sept. 22, 2026, 5:27 a.m. CT. Updated 4:53 p.m.
Brief Gates-led coalition of 60 targets AI in more languages Sept. 21, 2026, 5:22 a.m. CT. Updated 4:50 p.m.
Brief King Charles warns AI labs of ‘existential dangers’ Sept. 18, 2026, 5:22 a.m. CT
Brief Yoshua Bengio warns humanity is ‘losing control’ of AI Sept. 17, 2026, 5:08 a.m. CT. Updated 9:38 a.m.
Brief Gates puts $1 billion on AI access as leaders reject a pause Sept. 16, 2026, 5:21 a.m. CT
Brief Chip index drops 5.9% after AI slowdown calls Sept. 15, 2026, 5:23 a.m. CT
Brief Trump, Beijing and Microsoft draw three lanes on AI control Sept. 14, 2026, 2:49 p.m. CT
Brief Anthropic’s Jacob Coxon quits over race to self-improving AI Sept. 10, 2026, 5:38 a.m. CT
Wire OpenAI posts Lean proof it says solves Navier–Stokes Sept. 8, 2026, 5:27 p.m. CT
Wire NYU mathematician posts three AI-aided fluid blowup results Sept. 8, 2026, 11:39 a.m. CT
Brief Meta ships Muse Spark 1.3 as China’s top court sets AI rules Sept. 8, 2026, 5:32 a.m. CT
Brief OpenAI rates GPT-6 Astra Critical in cyber capability Sept. 7, 2026, 6:46 p.m. CT. Updated Oct. 2, 5:50 p.m.