The EU classifies ChatGPT as a very large search engine, with four months to comply
Built-in web search and at least 45 million EU users crossed the threshold. Reddit and Roblox were reclassified in the same decision.
Policy
Epoka — What's happening in AI, without the noise.
OpenAI starts billing some customers only when the AI actually finishes the job
Outcome pricing instead of a subscription. The hard part is attribution: proving the good result really came from the AI.
Companies
Bank of England chief warns the G20 about inflated AI valuations and borrowed money
What worries Bailey most is not the valuations but the leverage stacked on them. If one AI company stumbles, the chain runs long.
Companies
What the technical report leaves out: how to read the human side of an accident
The 38-page report explains how the failure happened, not why it was not stopped. Safety experts say that is the real question. Step by step.
Safety
Fable 5.1's “45 percent cheaper” claim is disputed
Anthropic announced its new models with a cache discount. Artificial Analysis, which took part in pre-release testing, says the saving does not hold in every scenario.
Models
Astra is the first model past the “critical” cyber line
OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model is the first to cross its own critical cybersecurity threshold. Development had been delayed after the Hugging Face attack.
Safety
Apple accuses OpenAI of destroying evidence
Apple has asked for expedited discovery in its trade secrets case, arguing that forensic traces on a former employee's Apple-owned laptop are at risk of being erased.
Companies
Agent add-ons go unsigned: AIR raises $50M
A software supply chain is forming around the skills, plug-ins and MCP servers AI agents use. AIR has come out of stealth to police it.
Safety
What are benchmark scores actually measuring?
Ai2's BenchMIRT method examines benchmarks at the level of individual questions, and shows that a single score often mixes together more than one capability.
Research
Gemini 3.8 Flash: same token price, bigger bill
Google shipped its third Flash model in six weeks. The token price matches 3.7 Flash exactly, but the model reasons more, pushing cost per task up 40 percent — and Google itself recommends staying on the older model when efficiency matters.
Models
US government backs OpenAI in the NYT lawsuit
The Justice Department entered the New York Times copyright case with a 20-page filing arguing that training models on copyrighted text is fair use. Its oddest feature: it declares its own Copyright Office's opposing report unauthoritative.
Policy
The secret model-review framework goes to court
Protect Democracy has sued four federal agencies to force the release of the framework used to review frontier models before launch. The framework is not classified, yet it still is not being shared.
Policy