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GLM-5.3-Flash will likely handle 45% of your AI workloads
A week ago, a mystery model called Ox Alpha showed up on OpenRouter — one more entrant among more than 400 models, with roughly 10 new ones launching every week. What made it stand out wasn t just the free price tag; it was quietly good. Hobbyists and indie developers noticed fast, pushing several trillion tokens through it daily, with community estimates for the week ranging from single digits to over 20 trillion.AI enthusiasts spent the next six days doing forensics and speculating who could have built it, and who could have the infrastructure to serve that many tokens for free. First the guess was a U.S. lab: the long-awaited Gemini, or Anthropic shipping a good-enough middle tier, or Elon sitting on so much capacity he dropped Ox Alpha (note the naming). People ran tokenizer traces and networking analysis. A real Sherlock Holmes mystery week.On August 26, Z.ai put its name on it. Ox Alpha was GLM-5.3-Flash. They d been running it on public traffic on purpose, but the real surprise
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.
Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well
The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.
Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company
Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion in overall revenue in the past quarter, a jump of over $10 billion from the previous quarter. Its data center revenue alone more than doubled year-over-year to a record $89 billion, and the company's profits more than doubled to $59.7 billion. Nvidia's "edge computing" category, which includes its consumer gam … Read the full story at The Verge.
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
OpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to find out about any of it. Over a month later, two new reports offer nearly 130 pages of details on the incident and OpenAI's response, many of them previously unreleased. One was written by OpenAI itself, the other by two third-party AI research nonprofits, METR and Redwood Research, which OpenAI allowed to jointly investigate the inciden … Read the full story at The Verge.
Salesforce just put its entire CRM inside Claude — and says you’ll never need its app again
Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes the world s largest customer relationship management platform directly inside Claude — a tacit acknowledgment that the future of enterprise software may not involve enterprise software s own screens at all.The centerpiece of the announcement is Salesforce in Claude, a plugin for Anthropic s Claude CoWork that ships with 37 pre-built sales skills — covering meeting preparation, deal health reviews, and pipeline analysis — and lets sellers query, update, and act on live CRM data without ever opening Salesforce itself. The product is available to select pilot customers today, with an open beta planned for September and additional skills for other business functions beginning to launch in the third quarter.Marc Benioff, Salesforce s chair and CEO, and Dario Amodei, Anthropic s CEO, were scheduled to appear on television together Tuesday afternoon, hours before Salesforce re
All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens
Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times. The settlement stems from a nationwide lawsuit alleging Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap failed to protect children and made their platforms "addictive" by design. A group of 51 US states and territories signed the agreement, including New York, New Jersey, California, Nevada, South Carolina, Washington, Illino … Read the full story at The Verge.
Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.
How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?
Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?
Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
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