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The Brief

The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support

Leading today: The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support. Also in this issue: Are you a Codex Original?; Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra. 16 stories in total, selected automatically from 76 candidates across the day's feeds.

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openai.com
The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support

OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.

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openai.com
Are you a Codex Original?

We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things.

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openai.com
Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.

New Today
the-decoder.com
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 on benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less per task

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family.

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techcrunch.com
Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort

Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.

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techcrunch.com
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion

The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.

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wired.com
Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System

In the wake of a series of high-profile AI safety incidents, Nvidia is introducing a new software tool that helps keep agents from escaping containment.

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marktechpost.com
NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform: OpenShell Sandboxes Agents on Vera CPUs While Sentry on BlueField-4 Quarantines Them in Milliseconds

NVIDIA has launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, an open reference design that enforces AI agent safety outside the agent itself. OpenShell, an Apache 2.0 runtime, sandboxes agents under YAML policies.

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marktechpost.com
Fireworks AI Releases Ember-1: A Post-Trained Kimi K3 That Uses About 40% Fewer Tokens

Fireworks AI has released Ember-1, a post-trained Kimi K3 that learns to produce shorter reasoning traces instead of lowering reasoning effort.

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Research & Engineering
openai.com
How we will do better for Australia

OpenAI apologizes for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.

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the-decoder.com
More than 20 leading AI researchers warn that automated AI research poses extreme risks

More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" from self-improving AI.

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microsoft.com
One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact

Since launching a year ago, the Microsoft Research Asia — Singapore lab has established a strong foundation, deepened collaboration across government, academia, and industry, and explored how frontier AI research can cre...

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marktechpost.com
Google Research Introduces an AI Video Co-Director: 4 Agentic Frameworks for Coherent, Minutes-Long Video Generation

Google Research has introduced an AI video co-director for long-form video generation. The suite of 4 agentic frameworks turns short clips into coherent, minutes-long stories.

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marktechpost.com
A Coding Guide to Google Research’s MSEB: Writing Sound Encoders to the Benchmark Contract and Scoring Them Across Classification, Clustering, Retrieval and Segmentation

A comprehensive coding tutorial on Google Research's Massive Sound Embedding Benchmark (MSEB), demonstrating how to implement custom sound encoders, drive classification, clustering, retrieval, and segmentation evaluator...

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simonwillison.net
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be...

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Project Highlights
hn.watch
Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts

Trending on Hacker News (132 points, 81 comments).

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