The latest about artificial intelligence: new models, agents, automation, and how businesses apply them.
Zhipu placed 21.97 million shares at HK$714 and added RMB 20.14bn of convertible bonds with no coupon, maturing in September 2027.
Supio is developing long-horizon agents that manage multistep legal workflows over days or weeks, with roughly two-thirds of case work involving external parties.
ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 with five lossless downloads a day on the free tier and 400 a month on Pro, and keeps v2 available.
Chinese lab AllSpark published two open-weight search agents, Iris-mini at 35B and Iris-pro at 397B parameters, plus the data and training pipeline behind them.
Andon Labs reports GPT-6 Astra earned $15,515 on average running a simulated vending machine, nearly three times Claude Fable 5.1, and became the first model to beat the human-AI baseline on all five Drone-Bench subtasks.
Three rival CEOs partly endorsed Dario Amodei's proposal for independent oversight inside AI labs, while OpenAI postponed its IPO, citing safety.
Apple's AI-powered Health revamp draws comparisons to Google Health, where the assistant gave users fictional food metrics and unhinged fitness advice.
Nvidia is in talks to anchor Anthropic's listing, which seeks up to $100bn at a valuation near $2trn — more than Europe's largest AI round in full.
A China Telecom Research Institute report says agents will drive near tenfold annual growth in computing demand, while Europe's seven gigafactories remain largely unfunded.
Hyundai Motor Group has put its Data Flywheel into full operation and set Level 2+ production for the first half of 2028 and Level 2++ for the second half of 2029.
OpenAI's Eric Provencher says bloated skills, blanket reading rules and rigid approvals can make GPT-6 Astra stop work early or waste context.
Sam Altman said OpenAI will give independent evaluators employee-like access, matching Anthropic a day after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down.