- OpenAI introduces Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, which can animate gifs and is 50% faster [OpenAI]
- OpenAI says ChatGPT has reached 20% of Google’s Search volume [The Verge]
- Apple is tightening their AI qouta for engineers, to $200 from $300 per day [MacRumors]
- As Democrats sweep up in new Congress, many are worried about data center developments [TechCrunch]
- Anthropic inks its first ever licensing deal, with Associated Press for election night coverage [AdWeek]
- OpenAI starts «security sprint» to harden systems with Cathedral, quadrouples bug bounty [OpenAI]
- ChatGPT Classic macOS app to retire on January 30, 2027, pointing users to combined Work/Chat app [9to5Mac]
- IPO: Antrhopic’s internal AI use increased 250-fold since January and costs now outstrip wages [Business Insider]
- Anthropic says Recursive Self-Improvement could be imminent, and might not be discovered until it’s already here [TechCrunch]
- IPO: Anthropic has almost $900B in purchase commitments on $17B of Q3 revenue [CNBC]
- OpenAI to adjust future data center electricity demand when the grid is under strain [OpenAI]
- GPT-6 Astra tweaks 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B’s weights to make it 48.1% better at math [GitHub]
- Meta built a humanoid robot prototype named Max, and has been working on Max 2 since September [Engadget]
- Email: OpenAI to merge Work capabilities into ChatGPT Chat in the coming weeks [BleepingComputer]
- OpenAI to respect shared Robots.txt signal to give publishers more control over AI training [OpenAI]
- OpenAI readying PR push for the next Congress, and call data centers «AI compute campuses» [Axios]