TechCrunch ·
OpenAI gates GPT-5.6 behind the government, says this should not be the norm
OpenAI is limiting its new flagship to government-approved partners after a White House request, and is publicly insisting the gatekeeping stays temporary.
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The AI Insider ·OpenAI and Broadcom debut Jalapeno, a direct shot at Nvidia pricing
Free Press Journal ·Musk says Grok 4.5 already rivals Claude Opus in private beta
AI Funding Tracker
- CBS News ·
SpaceX acquires AI coding startup Cursor for $60B
All-stock deal values Cursor maker Anysphere at $60 billion as SpaceX builds out its own coding-AI push days after its blockbuster IPO
- Network World ·
Qualcomm to acquire AI software startup Modular for $3.9B
- Crunchbase News ·
Bezos-backed Flourish raises $500M for brain-inspired AI
New AI Tools
- GitHub ·
Orca
An open-source desktop and mobile orchestrator for running fleets of coding agents in parallel, each in its own git worktree.
- GitHub ·
OpenMontage
- GitHub ·
Voicebox
- GitHub ·
NotASithLord/peerd
- GitHub ·
DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp
Interesting AI Articles
- Digital Applied ·
Government-Gated AI: OpenAI and Anthropic enter a new era
One lab was compelled and the other cooperated, but both now ship frontier models only with Washington''s sign-off, and that changes everything.
The Cairo Review ·Will Washington and Beijing nationalize the AI labs?
Tech Policy Press ·Did the US just set an AI export precedent by blocking Mythos?
