AI — Page 27
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Quilty brings screenplay coverage into Claude and ChatGPT for draft scoring
Founders Simon Horsman and Daniel Wood are putting Quilty's screenplay analysis inside two chat assistants, with tools to compare a rewrite against its prior draft.
- Anthropic uses Claude Science to estimate the missing third of the UV sky
Astrophysicist Brice Menard guided agents through decades of telescope data; about one-third of the finished map is inferred rather than directly observed.
- OpenAI says Codex users can now redirect active tasks instantly
Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux says the change lets users course-correct while a task runs. OpenAI had already previewed GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast as a faster Codex tier.
- GlobalFoundries will make TSMC's AI interposers under a $2B deal
The five-year manufacturing agreement adds capacity at GlobalFoundries' Malta, New York, site, with production expected to ramp in the first half of 2028.
- Google Cloud launches a Gemini agent for work across business apps
Thomas Kurian's new agent can run multi-step jobs, create persistent coworker agents and route work across Google's models and Anthropic's Claude.
- Three fired OpenAI safety researchers press for clearer rules on outside work
Wang says OpenAI told her she was dismissed for accessing an executive's email; Korbak and Balesni describe a separate dispute over outside safety work they say followed the norms in place.
- Anthropic adds live dashboards and editable animations to Claude
Anthropic is bringing exploratory data work and editable explainers into Claude, while routing deeper analysis and video finishing to outside apps.
- OpenAI adds GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast at six times standard API prices
The speed tier launched October 8th across the API, Codex and ChatGPT Work, with access limits for workplace plans and support for US and EU data residency.
- Anthropic adds a cruelty rule to Claude's usage policy, effective November 12th
The update also consolidates bans on deceptive campaigns and clarifies rules for weapons, surveillance and autonomous physical systems.
- Intelic rolls Nexus into Ukraine's battlefield drone operations
Reuters reported on October 8th that the software is being rolled out in Ukraine, where it supplements the country's Delta battlefield-management platform. The report also described a Dutch test linking radar, sensors and interceptor drones; Intelic's Dutch defense partnership is worth more than €30M.
- Everything we know about Google's Gemini 4 Argon
- Pony.ai and Uber plan London tests in push for 2,000 European robotaxis
Founder James Peng is taking Pony.ai's Gen-7 beyond China through Uber's marketplace, after the partners began European operations in Zagreb.
- Anthropic commits $150M to put Claude inside federal science projects
Anthropic says it will provide Claude, Claude Code, API credits and technical support to several hundred projects over three years. CEO Dario Amodei trained as a physicist.
- Artemis launches Orion-1, a security model that commits to a decision
The model enters private preview inside Artemis' security platform, where customers set which responses it can take without human approval.
- Tranquility makes investigative AI available to federal teams through Knox's Class D cloud
Founder Jim Penrose spent 17 years at the NSA; the FedRAMP Marketplace lists Knox's cloud platform, not Tranquility's products, as certified.
- Google Cloud's new work agent can route jobs to Claude and run for days
Gemini agent will connect Workspace, third-party services and long-running sub-agents, but it is still in private preview.
- Scale AI releases visual-reasoning benchmark where top model scores 53.6%
The open HSS benchmark tests inference across 288 images and 234 videos; 20 human participants scored 93.1% under the same free-form conditions.
- Broadcom is arranging more than $50B to finance OpenAI's custom chips
Bloomberg, citing the Wall Street Journal, says Apollo and Blackstone are among lenders in talks; the proposed financing is separate from OpenAI's equity fundraising.
- OpenAI folds college applications into ChatGPT for teens
The planned U.S. tool will track applications and financial aid as OpenAI reports early teen usage amid criticism of its safety protections.
- OpenAI says Codex and ChatGPT Work have 40M active users
Product lead Thibault Sottiaux shared the figure on October 7th, as GPT-6 began rolling out in ChatGPT's Chat tab.
- National Compute plans $100M in compute credits for federal science
The proposed Genesis Mission donation is expected to be announced October 8th. A separate post from Anjney Midha describes subsidized access to hundreds of compute nodes, but does not say how the donation would reach researchers.
- OpenAI launches Intelligent UI in ChatGPT six weeks after RuntimeWire's GenUI report
OpenAI says GPT-6 can generate charts, forms and task-specific tools in answers. RuntimeWire's August 26th report documented interactive-answer infrastructure, without establishing the Intelligent UI branding or a GPT-6 connection.
- Anthropic launches Haiku 5.5, says it costs 75% less to run
The new model is Anthropic's cheapest, fastest and most capable small model to date, according to the company. Its announcement gives no per-token prices or benchmark results.
- Liquid AI releases open d1 models for multimodal edge decisions
Liquid AI released d1-3B for text and images and an experimental 600M model that pairs text with images or audio.