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AI
OpenAI confirmed it has scrapped the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra, the next step in its flagship line, after internal testing found the model did not meet its safety and alignment standards.
AI
Nvidia released the Open Agent Safety Platform, pairing two components with different jobs. OpenShell is an Apache 2.0 runtime that sandboxes agent fleets with kernel-level isolation and enforces a declarative policy over the files, networks, tools and credentials each may reach.
Economy / Markets
US equities started the week lower after a jump in long-dated bond yields pulled indexes further from record levels. The S&P 500 fell 0.8 percent, the Dow Jones Industrial Average 0.7 percent and the Nasdaq Composite 0.9 percent.
Technology
AMD will acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence company co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, in a transaction valued at more than eight billion dollars. Li becomes AMD's chief scientist as part of the deal.
Sources TechCrunchThe Verge
Economy / Markets
Anthropic's IPO prospectus, reported by Reuters, sets sweeping AI ambitions against the cost of pursuing them: revenue of $4.59 billion alongside a heavy operating loss, and long-term cloud, compute and infrastructure commitments of roughly $518 billion.
AI
The UK AI Security Institute placed GPT-6 Astra inside simulated cybersecurity evaluations, with the model's cyber classifiers switched off so its own inclinations could be measured.
Sources OpenAI Deployment Safety Hub - GPT-6 Astra System CardThe Register
AI
An Australian Senate inquiry into AI and data centres has asked OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei to appear at a public hearing in Canberra on Thursday.
Sources Moneycontrol (Reuters)Benzinga
Technology
SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time in a full ascent profile and released a batch of next-generation Starlink satellites, moving the vehicle past a milestone it had previously only approached.
Sources Ars TechnicaTechCrunch
AI
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family, describing it as a faster and lower-cost complement to the flagship Opus 5.5 rather than a capability step.
Football
Michael Olise came off the bench to score two minutes from time and give France a 1-0 win in Belgium, keeping Zinedine Zidane's record at two wins from two in Nations League Group A1 and leaving Les Bleus three points clear.
Economy / Markets
Nvidia's board of directors authorised an additional $150 billion under the company's existing share repurchase programme, lifting the total remaining authorisation to $235 billion.
Sources NVIDIA Newsroom
Football
Dimitris Kourbelis came off the bench to score the only goal in the 74th minute, a low strike that deflected off captain Joshua Kimmich, giving Greece a 1-0 win in Augsburg and a first victory over Germany in 11 meetings between the sides.
Sources Cyprus Mail (Reuters)7M Sport
Football
Matchday two closes on Tuesday with England away to Czechia and Spain hosting Croatia in League A Group 3, after England lost 2-3 to Spain at Wembley and Czechia went down 1-2 to Croatia in their opener.
Technology
Church groups and community organisations are pressing Microsoft to contribute one percent of its data centre costs to the towns and regions that host the facilities, and the company has not answered publicly.
Sources Ars Technica
Technology
SiMa.ai closed an oversubscribed $150 million Series C that values the physical-AI chip developer at $1.45 billion and takes total funding to $500 million. The company builds silicon for robots, drones, autonomous vehicles and other edge systems, and says the round, co-led by Fidelity and Amplify, funds a next-generation architecture planned for 2028 while it expands deployment of its current platform.