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Top 10 — News
- Trump calls for new nuclear treaty with Russia as New Start expires US president says the two countries should seek a ‘modernised’ treaty instead of extending current agreement
- Prediction market Kalshi seeks US approval to offer margin trades Initiative highlights rapid evolution of events betting from quaint origins offering wagers on Oscars and elections
- Amazon shares tumble as it joins the Big Tech AI spending spree Technology stocks have fallen this week as investors appeared wary of the sector's big investment plans.
- Can robots ever be graceful? Firms are working to make the motors that drive robots more efficient and cheaper.
- OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own The new model is built to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.
- With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code The emphasis is on "mid-turn steering and frequent progress updates."
- Republicans attack ‘woke’ Netflix — and ignore YouTube When Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos entered the Senate office building on Tuesday, he got thrown a curveball.
- Barclays reportedly cuts ties with lobbying firm co-founded by Peter Mandelson Vodafone also reviewing its contract with Global Counsel after revelations of former minister’s links to Jeffrey Epstein Barclays has repor…
- AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.
- Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools
The startup -- with backing from Accel -- is building a financial layer that handles the authentication and micro-payments required for AI…
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI’s new coding model GPT-5.3-Codex helped build itself during training and deployment OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex sets new highs on agentic coding benchmarks, and according to the company, it helped build itself.
- openai/openai-node: v6.18.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.17.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.12.3 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Claude Opus 4.6 brings one million token context window to Anthropic’s flagship model Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.6, its new flagship model.
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.78.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: sdk: v0.73.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- How to Build License-Compliant Synthetic Data Pipelines for AI Model Distillation Specialized AI models are built to perform specific tasks or solve particular problems.
- microsoft/onnxruntime: ONNX Runtime v1.24.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex
GPT-5.3-Codex is a Codex-native agent that pairs frontier coding performance with general reasoning to support long-horizon, real-world tec…
Full list — News (54)
US president says the two countries should seek a ‘modernised’ treaty instead of extending current agreement
Initiative highlights rapid evolution of events betting from quaint origins offering wagers on Oscars and elections
President Miguel Díaz-Canel insists regime is not ‘close to failing’ and promises details of plans to boost energy sector
Nasdaq drops as recent high-flying companies pull market lower
Also in this newsletter: Supreme Court questions WhatsApp’s privacy policy
Platform offers discounts for weight-loss and fertility medicines sold by Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and others
Cryptocurrency returns to November 2024 level as it is swept up in tech stock sell-off
State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations
Prime minister’s handling of Mandelson scandal has left Labour Party simmering with resentment
Cern particle accelerator led by British scientist among institutions affected by wider research shake-up
Anta’s sales have grown on average 17 per cent a year for the past five years, with the US maker of the famous swoosh managing 4 per cent
Also in today’s newsletter: Chinese provinces set lower growth targets for 2026, and Big Tech shares slide again
But US president says he retains right to ‘militarily secure’ American base on Diego Garcia
Numerous new data points to further weakness in labour market
Labour Together, previously run by Downing Street chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, commissioned APCO Worldwide
US president says prime minister deserves ‘powerful recognition’ in snap poll
Capital expenditure forecasts for 2026 were a third higher than Wall Street’s expectations
Ares, Blue Owl and KKR warn on outlook for 2026 as concern about exposure to software investments weighs on sector
Technology stocks have fallen this week as investors appeared wary of the sector's big investment plans.
Firms are working to make the motors that drive robots more efficient and cheaper.
The new model is built to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.
The steps to bolster Canada's auto industry come as Trump's tariffs strain the sector and threaten jobs.
The price of the digital currency has dropped significantly despite President Donald Trump’s public support.
The emphasis is on "mid-turn steering and frequent progress updates."
When Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos entered the Senate office building on Tuesday, he got thrown a curveball.
Vodafone also reviewing its contract with Global Counsel after revelations of former minister’s links to Jeffrey Epstein Barclays has repor…
Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.
Hamster Corp.'s new "Console Archives" does what Nintendon't.
Senator: ICE and CBP "have built an arsenal of surveillance technologies."
The startup -- with backing from Accel -- is building a financial layer that handles the authentication and micro-payments required for AI…
During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday, it offered an update on its plans to merge traditional and AI search togethe…
AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption.
In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex.
The Bezos-owned newspaper gutted its San Francisco bureau and coverage of tech — including journalists reporting on Amazon and Blue Origin.
Andreessen Horowitz VC Jennifer Li, who oversees some of the firm's fastest-growing AI companies, warns founders not to believe every ARR…
HBO is developing a Baldur's Gate TV show that will continue the story of Larian Studios' hit RPG Baldur's Gate 3, according to Deadline.
After rolling out age verification last year, Roblox is aiming to grow the number of players over 18 on its platform.
As a movie, Iron Lung is occasionally thrilling but mostly forgettable.
On Thursday, Bitcoin's value fell over 10 percent in a single day, dropping to around $64,000, the lowest it has been since the 2024 Presid…
OpenAI's new Frontier platform gives AI agents in companies their own identities, shared context, and the ability to learn from experience.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
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ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate.
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (26)
OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex sets new highs on agentic coding benchmarks, and according to the company, it helped build itself.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
A family shares how ChatGPT helped them prepare for critical cancer treatment decisions for their son alongside expert guidance from his do…
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.6, its new flagship model.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Kimi K2.5 is the newest open vision language model (VLM) from the Kimi family of models.
According to an internal memo, Meta has completed the preliminary training of its new AI model codenamed "Avocado".
Specialized AI models are built to perform specific tasks or solve particular problems.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Painkiller RTX sets a new standard for how small teams can balance massive visual ambition with limited resources by integrating generative…
Starting today, Amazon Bedrock supports Claude Opus 4.6.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
GPT‑5.3-Codex is the most capable agentic coding model to date, combining the frontier coding performance of GPT‑5.2-Codex with the reasoni…
GPT-5.3-Codex is a Codex-native agent that pairs frontier coding performance with general reasoning to support long-horizon, real-world tec…
Release update (see link for changelog).
AWS Batch now extends its job scheduling capabilities to unmanaged compute environments on Amazon EKS.
Release update (see link for changelog).
The popular open-source AI agent OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot, can be completely taken over through manipulated documents.
Amazon Bedrock now supports structured outputs, a capability that provides consistent, machine-readable responses from foundation models th…