🤝 OpenAI to acquire Neptune
OpenAI says it’s buying neptune.ai to gain tighter, real-time visibility into how frontier models learn. Think: experiment tracking, training metrics, weird edge cases-all in one pane.
Leadership on both sides framed it as a speed-and-safety win for research, which… honestly, tracks. Tools that surface a model’s mood swings are priceless.
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🧊 Anthropic inks $200M Snowflake deal for agentic AI
Anthropic and Snowflake are expanding their partnership with a multi-year, $200M pact to push Claude-powered agents into big enterprise stacks.
They’re promising governed, on-platform workflows and claiming high accuracy on tough text-to-SQL. Big talk-but the customer count is very real.
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🚀 Nvidia touts 10x inference boost on latest AI servers
Nvidia says its newest server box-crammed with 72 top chips and speedy interconnects-serves mixture-of-experts models up to 10x faster.
Examples included China’s Kimi K2 Thinking and DeepSeek models. Training may be cheaper now, but Nvidia’s betting the serving race is where it still laps rivals.
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🛡️ Report: Big AI firms fall short on safety standards
A new Future of Life assessment says OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Meta, and others are far below emerging global safety bars. Ouch.
Some firms responded, some shrugged, and the broader point lingers-the industry’s sprinting while the guardrails still wobble. It’s a slightly leaky boat, in choppy water.
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🧰 AWS adds ‘powers’ to its Kiro AI IDE
AWS rolled out Kiro powers-bundles that load steering files and MCP servers so you can kit out the IDE’s agent for specific workflows in one click.
It’s plug-in-like, but for AI behaviors. Today it’s Kiro first, with hints of broader tool support later. Handy, slightly nerdy, very on brand.
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🕳️ RCE flaw found in OpenAI’s Codex CLI
Researchers showed how a repo’s .env could redirect CODEX_HOME and load a rogue config, enabling remote code execution via malicious MCP entries.
OpenAI patched in v0.23.0. Lesson learned-again: agentic tools are like power tools; amazing until someone removes the guard.
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📊 Citadel unveils AI assistant for equity research
Citadel’s CTO says a new in-house chatbot helps investors parse filings, transcripts, and research faster-custom lists, risk flags, the works.
Still, decisions stay human. The vibe is augmentation, not autopilot, which is either pragmatic or conservative… or both.
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