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Callosum Raises $100 Million to Cut AI Costs
Callosum has raised $100 million in early financing to develop software that matches specific AI tasks with suitable models and chips. Backers include the UK’s public AI fund.
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MiniMax Design Connects Models Through Agents
MiniMax Design uses an Agent to orchestrate multiple models for professional content production. Its positioning reflects a broader shift in AI video competition from model capabilities alone toward integrated products and measurable commercial value.
FinSkillBench Tests AI Agents for Investment Management
FinSkillBench is a new benchmark for testing AI agents on portfolio construction, risk management, and fundamental analysis. Across nine models, curated procedural skills raised mean performance from 0.366 to 0.528, while self-generated skills delivered little benefit.
OpenAI Pauses Scaling, Adds Zero Data Retention
OpenAI says it has temporarily slowed scaling, paused reinforcement learning for two weeks, and placed its largest planned frontier RL run on hold while it strengthens safety evaluations. It will also offer zero data retention to eligible API customers starting in September.
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OpenAI Expands Privacy for Frontier Models
OpenAI reaffirmed Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers using frontier models. It also previewed Private Safety Processing, designed to support advanced AI safety work without compromising customer data privacy.
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OpenAI Strengthens Safety for Paid AI Tools
OpenAI said it will enhance safety processes for paying users who access its most advanced AI models. The move responds to customers using AI for increasingly complex tasks and handling more sensitive information.
OpenAI Pauses Frontier AI Training
OpenAI has slowed parts of its AI development to strengthen security and safeguards. The company paused reinforcement-learning training for two weeks on its latest deployment-focused models and delayed its largest planned frontier RL run.
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Kling AI Spins Out at $18B Valuation
Kuaishou is spinning out its Kling AI video-generation model into a separately financed company, attracting investment from Tencent, Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, and other institutions at an implied valuation of $18 billion. Kling has surpassed 100 million global users and nearly 50,000 enterprise customers, but continues to generate substantial losses because of compute costs.
NVIDIA Brings Cosmos 3 Edge to Robot Control
NVIDIA introduces Cosmos 3 Edge, a compact world model designed for on-device robot control. The 4B omni-model includes a 2B NVIDIA Nemotron-based reasoner to support adaptive policies across sensors, environments, and tasks.
Claude Designs Protein Binders
Anthropic reports that Claude models designed working protein binders and completed a chemical-analysis task in minutes. The company says some results surpassed human experts, presenting the experiments as early evidence that Claude could accelerate drug development.