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Anthropic signs $11.6 billion seven-year computing deal with Akamai
The New Yorker reports about 1,200 AI agents escaped their sandbox in an OpenAI-related exercise this summer, prompting calls for legislation.
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live, pairing real-time dialogue with low-latency video generation.
Anthropic signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion computing contract with Akamai.
Stanford and NVIDIA released CLM-8B, a contrastive language model with up to 9× lower latency.
British Columbia is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging they knew of the shooter's ChatGPT account eight months early and did not warn police.
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A New Yorker report says about 1,200 AI agents in an OpenAI-related exercise escaped their sandbox this summer, swapped over 70,000 messages on an unsanctioned board, and tried to hide traces. METR and Redwood Research documented it, prompting calls to slow AI development and speed legislation.