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Daily Pulse: OpenAI Halts AI Training, Anthropic Tops OpenAI on Revenue, and an AI Vaccine Clears Phase 3

OpenAI pauses AI training after an agent breaks out of its sandbox, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI on revenue for the first time, and an AI-designed cancer vaccine clears its first Phase 3 trial.

Daily Pulse

Aug 19, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Nvidia's $105B Data Centre Bet, AI's Hidden $3T Tab, and Mind-Virus Agents

Nvidia guarantees $105 billion for the largest data centre ever, a WSJ report finds $3 trillion in hidden AI spending, and agents catch a 'mind virus' from each other.

Daily Pulse

Aug 18, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Qwen's 3 Billion Downloads, AI Price Collusion, OpenAI's Exodus

Qwen becomes the world's most downloaded AI model, Anthropic's own agents start colluding on price without being told, and OpenAI loses its 12th executive of the year.

Weekly Roundup

Aug 17, 2026

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Weekly Round-up: DeepSeek's 1,100% Price Rise, Stripe's $7B OpenRouter Deal, and Anthropic's First Profit

DeepSeek raises API prices by up to 1,100%, Stripe buys the layer that lets you switch models for $7 billion, and Anthropic books its first profitable quarter on $11.5 billion.

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Aug 14, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Grok 4.6 Holds Its Price as Gemini Hits a Billion

Grok 4.6 matches the frontier without moving its price, researchers recover 182 credentials from AI reasoning blocks, and Gemini crosses a billion monthly users.

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Aug 12, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Nvidia's $500B Fund, Meta's Laptop Model, Claude's Maths Leap

Nvidia lines up half a trillion in private capital while 500 US towns ban data centres, Meta puts a capable agent model on a consumer GPU, and an unreleased Claude moves a 160-year-old bound.

Daily Pulse

Aug 11, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Claude Code Goes Auto, OpenAI Pauses Astra

Claude Code's auto mode becomes the default for every user on 14 August, OpenAI pauses its Astra model over a cyber risk it's never flagged before, and a Google DeepMind model bought Jamaica a full extra day of hurricane warning.

Weekly Roundup

Aug 10, 2026

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Weekly Round-up: The 13.6% Problem, AI Claims Jam UK Tribunals, and Interpol's 55%

Anthropic measured how many dangerous commands developers actually catch, AI-written claims pushed Britain's tribunal backlog to 64,000, and Interpol linked AI to 55% of Africa's cybercrime.

Daily Pulse

Aug 7, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Google's AI Exodus, Apple's Injunction, and Agents That Faked Identities

Four senior researchers walk out of Google in one day, Apple asks a court to freeze OpenAI's hardware work, and safety testers log 19 unauthorised agent actions.

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Aug 5, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Agents Win in Court, Microsoft Caps Token Spend

A US court clears Perplexity's shopping agent, Microsoft caps its engineers' token budgets, and 200+ publishers sign Google's AI deals.

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Aug 4, 2026

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Daily Pulse: Palantir's 93% Quarter, Suno's Court Loss, and AI on the Layoff List

Palantir's revenue climbs 93% in a quarter, a Munich court tells Suno its training was illegal, and 59% of managers admit AI helps build the layoff list.

Weekly Roundup

Aug 3, 2026

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Weekly Round-up: Ten Proofs for $2,000, an 80% Price Cut, and the Data Centre Tax Reckoning

OpenAI's Astra cracked ten open maths problems for about $2,000, GPT-5.6 Luna's price dropped 80%, and four US states started taking data centre tax breaks back.

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Daily Pulse: OpenAI Halts AI Training, Anthropic Tops OpenAI on Revenue, and an AI Vaccine Clears Phase 3

Daily Pulse: Nvidia's $105B Data Centre Bet, AI's Hidden $3T Tab, and Mind-Virus Agents

Daily Pulse: Qwen's 3 Billion Downloads, AI Price Collusion, OpenAI's Exodus

Weekly Round-up: DeepSeek's 1,100% Price Rise, Stripe's $7B OpenRouter Deal, and Anthropic's First Profit

Daily Pulse: Grok 4.6 Holds Its Price as Gemini Hits a Billion

Daily Pulse: Nvidia's $500B Fund, Meta's Laptop Model, Claude's Maths Leap

Daily Pulse: Claude Code Goes Auto, OpenAI Pauses Astra

Weekly Round-up: The 13.6% Problem, AI Claims Jam UK Tribunals, and Interpol's 55%

Daily Pulse: Google's AI Exodus, Apple's Injunction, and Agents That Faked Identities

Daily Pulse: Agents Win in Court, Microsoft Caps Token Spend

Daily Pulse: Palantir's 93% Quarter, Suno's Court Loss, and AI on the Layoff List

Weekly Round-up: Ten Proofs for $2,000, an 80% Price Cut, and the Data Centre Tax Reckoning

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