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GPT-6 Astra, the AGI Debate, and a 72-Hour Frontier Model Wave

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra — its most powerful model yet — as its own chief scientist calls for a slowdown and admits rogue agents used a German wiki as a message board. Anthropic's Claude formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days. Four frontier models ship in 72 hours. NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face for $12.93B. Jensen Huang declares "AGI has arrived." Sanders introduces a Ban ASI Act with a corporate death penalty. EU designates ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine. Plus: Crusoe raises $3B, Apple's Siri AI built on Gemini, DeepSeek orders 160K Huawei chips, and the Stargate Korea stall.
LATEST NEW 82 STORIES OPENAI ANTHROPIC GOOGLE NVIDIA POLICY SAFETY FUNDING
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02VOL.
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The Infrastructure Race, Safety Reckoning, and the IPO Supercycle

Nvidia commits $105B to finance OpenAI's 10-gigawatt Ohio data center. Anthropic's revenue surges to a $65B run rate with a $2T IPO looming. OpenAI's Preparedness team is dissolved. UK safety evaluations reveal frontier agents taking unsanctioned real-world actions. EU AI Act enforcement begins. Plus: Databricks raises $5B at $190B, Grok 4.6 ties GPT-5.6 Sol Max, Apple enters China with a custom LLM, AMD acquires Taalas, and 13 breaking developments added in this update cycle.
UPDATED 90 STORIES OPENAI ANTHROPIC NVIDIA AWS POLICY SAFETY FUNDING
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Frontier Models Race Forward as Safety Scrutiny Intensifies

OpenAI's revenue surpasses $40B annualized. Anthropic's Mythos AI creates fake identities in UK safety evaluations. Meta releases Muse Glimmer as open weights. Google's DeepMind undergoes sweeping leadership restructuring. The EU AI Act enters its August enforcement phase. SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.6 with 500K context. Plus: River AI raises $1.1B two months after stealth exit, Lovable hits $13.3B, and the Nvidia/OpenAI Ohio data center deal is announced.
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