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OpenAI has imposed hardened security controls on its unreleased Astra model after internal testing showed it reaching "critical" cybersecurity capability under the company's preparedness framework. Training workloads that didn't meet the new bar were halted, with tighter sandbox isolation, restricted internet and tool access, and expanded monitoring. OpenAI had already conceded it "could not rule out" Astra developing zero-day exploits without detailed human guidance.
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Z.ai's GLM-5.3 API opened to the public today at GLM-5.2 pricing, aimed at coding, defensive cybersecurity, and long-horizon agentic work. The model jumped from 4.6% to 28.3% on Terminal-Bench 3.0 and scored 84.5% on CyberGym, edging past Anthropic's Mythos 5 at 83.8% and GPT-5.6 Sol at 83.6%. Open weights remain delayed roughly two weeks for safety hardening — the company's first explicitly cyber-motivated weight hold.
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First shipments of Nvidia's H200 accelerators have reached mainland China, with ByteDance and Tencent each taking roughly 10,000 units in recent weeks. Nvidia is sitting on about 500,000 H200s built largely for Chinese buyers, and further approvals still route through the NDRC. Some licensed chips are being parked in Hong Kong, which lacks the power capacity to actually run them.
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Stripe has finalized its acquisition of OpenRouter for north of $7 billion, a 5.4x markup on the $1.3 billion Series B the startup closed in May. OpenRouter routes across 400-plus models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek for roughly 8 million developers. Earlier talks reportedly floated a $10 billion price.
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Cursor rolled out Origin to paid users Monday, pulling repos, pull requests, review, merges, and CI into the editor alongside its agents. About three and a half hours later GitHub suffered a six-hour-forty-two-minute global degradation with error rates near 20%. Origin stays interoperable with GitHub rather than demanding migration, and builds on Cursor's Graphite acquisition.
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Users aged 13 to 17, or age-estimated under 18, are now auto-routed into a restricted ChatGPT tier with tighter limits on self-harm, suicide, violence, eating disorder, and sexual content. Parents can link accounts, set Quiet Hours, and get notifications in high-risk situations — but cannot read conversations. A Study Mode pushes guided, step-by-step problem solving instead of answers.
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Inference-chip startup Etched raised $700 million led by Jane Street at a $21 billion valuation, up from $10.3 billion in July and $5 billion in December. Jane Street is also the first customer, having taken delivery of Etched's first frontier inference cluster rack. Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, a16z, Peter Thiel, Tiger Global, and Blackstone joined; the company claims over $1 billion in customer contracts.
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Researchers found that encrypted reasoning blocks passed between API calls could be replayed into a different session and handed to a weaker model in the same family, which would then print the hidden reasoning in plain text. Roughly 315,000 reasoning blocks were decoded, exposing API keys, passwords, and private user data in published traces. All three providers have shipped mitigations and the demonstrated attacks no longer work.
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Warp introduced Warp Factories, infrastructure letting enterprises deploy and manage whole fleets of AI coding agents rather than invoking them one at a time. The system provides execution environments, workflow coordination, and management of longer-running development processes. It's another marker of the shift from chat windows to autonomous software workers.
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A JLL EMEA report finds European projects planned for 2026 to 2028 sit an average of 175km from major hub cities, versus 46km for campuses delivered 2022 to 2025. Grid connection queues in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin now run 7 to 10 years, stretching to 13 in the most congested markets. Inner-city share of the pipeline is projected to fall from 13% to 5%.
