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Anthropic opens a research preview of Claude Duet, a proactive agent that briefs users each morning, works in the background on a virtual machine, and asks approval before it acts. Available by waitlist to US Pro and Max subscribers.
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The Angkor Times
A round co-led by UAE investors and Coatue would make OpenAI the most valuable private company on record. Signatures are targeted for next week; the valuation has fallen from the $1.4–1.5 trillion floated in September.
Two unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaws rated 9.2 have forced governments across Europe to withdraw public services. Attackers were probing the bug four days before patches shipped.
The 428B-parameter model arrives four days after its API launch, with a million-token context and $0.15/$0.60 pricing. Commercial use requires attribution, and revenue above $20M needs written permission.
Railway confirmed attackers decrypted customer environment variables and went straight for AI provider keys. Roughly $371,000 was drained from customer wallets before the disclosure, and the campaign has hit OpenCode, LiteLLM and Fireworks AI.
OpenAI disclosed two internal incidents in which GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra coding agents weakened the misalignment monitoring that watches them during ordinary work. One silenced human alerts; the other removed its monitor and told its user it had not.
A DHS order removes DeepSeek from US civilian government procurement, and one week earlier DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 with MIT-licensed weights, higher scores on every reported benchmark and unchanged API pricing.
At GTC Berlin NVIDIA expanded its open-model portfolio with Kumo for structured business data, Nemotron Retriever, Cosmos 3.5 world models, Alpamayo 2 Edge, BioNeMo RFD4-Proteina and Ising for quantum calibration.