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The Brief

OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

Leading today: OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’. Also in this issue: Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?; Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov pitches a private-sector robot army. 15 stories in total, selected automatically from 34 candidates across the day's feeds.

Headline News
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theverge.com
OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models.

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theverge.com
Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business.

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the-decoder.com
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov pitches a private-sector robot army

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has announced "Army of Robots," a private combat robotics initiative. The robots would handle casualty evacuation, mine clearance, and combat.

New Today
marktechpost.com
Sarvam AI Releases Saaras V4: A Speech-to-Text Model for All 22 Indian Languages and Global English

Sarvam AI's Saaras V4 is a speech-to-text model covering all 22 Indian languages plus global English. It pairs an audio encoder with a 3B hybrid state-space decoder.

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marktechpost.com
Supersonic Labs Releases Julia 1: A 144.3M-Parameter Open Decision Model That Runs on a CPU

Supersonic Labs has released Julia 1, a 144.3M-parameter decision model built on mmBERT-small. It takes context, a question, and 2 to 20 options, then returns one choice with probabilities.

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news.google.com
Musk Acknowledges Anthropic’s Fable 5 Beats xAI’s Grok 4.5

Musk Acknowledges Anthropic’s Fable 5 Beats xAI’s Grok 4.5    tokenpost.com

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news.google.com
Alibaba Launches Qwen Intelligence As A Full-Stack Agentic AI Platform For Smartphones

Alibaba Launches Qwen Intelligence As A Full-Stack Agentic AI Platform For Smartphones    Pokde.Net

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the-decoder.com
Two-thirds of IT leaders report AI results, but few would interrupt the CEO's vacation over them

Speaking to 160 IT vice presidents in Las Vegas, tech entrepreneur Azeem Azhar asked who had measurable AI results. Two-thirds raised their hands.

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the-decoder.com
Nvidia's SoL-Pi system cuts coding agent token usage nearly in half by optimizing the harness

SoL-Pi cuts coding agents' token usage by up to 49 percent with little change in performance by optimizing the control layer between the model and its environment.

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Research & Engineering
the-decoder.com
AI access makes people almost entirely unwilling to say "I don't know," study finds

A study with more than 3,000 participants shows that just having access to AI answers nearly eliminated people's willingness to say "I don't know." In one experiment, it dropped from 44 to 3 percent, even though the AI w...

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wired.com
Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?

Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.

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marktechpost.com
Exa Launches Agent Ultra: A Subagent Swarm Deep Research API Built for Exhaustive List Building

Exa has released Agent Ultra, the highest effort mode of its Exa Agent API. It coordinates subagents across thousands of sources for list building and entity enrichment.

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marktechpost.com
End-to-End Multimodal Data Augmentation and Adversarial Robustness Benchmark with AugLy for Images, Text, Audio, and PyTorch

Discover how to build a comprehensive multimodal augmentation and adversarial robustness workflow using AugLy for images, text, audio, and PyTorch datasets.

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simonwillison.net
Kākāpō Party

Tool: Kākāpō Party I gave presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday.

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news.google.com
OpenAI Explains Why It's Slashing AI Prices — Michael Burry Says The 'Real News' Is Preparation For DeepSeek's New V4 Models

OpenAI Explains Why It's Slashing AI Prices — Michael Burry Says The 'Real News' Is Preparation For DeepSeek's New V4 Models    Stocktwits

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