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Your daily AI news briefing in under 10 minutes. New models, product launches, research breakthroughs, and industry shifts, explained clearly, no hype.

Microsoft and OpenAI restructure their partnership ending exclusivity, DeepMind's David Silver raises $1.1B for AI that learns without human data, DeepSeek V4 challenges frontier models, and China blocks Meta's Manus acquisition.

Today's AI news covers Cohere's major merger with Aleph Alpha to create a $20B sovereign AI alternative, Anthropic's experiment with AI agents trading on a marketplace, the White House accusing China of industrial-scale AI theft, and more industry developments.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 with state-of-the-art agentic coding capabilities at half the cost. Anthropic publishes a rare transparency postmortem on three bugs that caused Claude Code quality issues. Plus: ChatGPT's new 24/7 shareable agents, Sierra acquires Fragment, and more.

Google Cloud unveils TPU 8t and 8i chips with major performance gains. Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a multi-billion dollar Google Cloud deal. Plus: OpenAI partners with Infosys, Workspace gets AI-powered automation, and a biotech startup raises seed funding for AI drug characterization.

SpaceX announces a potential $60 billion deal to acquire AI coding startup Cursor. OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 with breakthrough text rendering. Sergey Brin personally leads a DeepMind strike team to catch Claude on coding. Plus: Mythos security breach, Meta's employee keystroke recording, and GitHub Copilot restrictions.

Amazon invests up to $25B in Anthropic for $100B in cloud spending, Kimi releases K2.6 with massive agent swarm capabilities, Allbirds pivots to GPU rentals, Snap cuts 1000 jobs citing AI productivity, and Deezer reveals 44% of music uploads are now AI-generated.

Today's AI news covers Cerebras filing for IPO after securing a massive $20B deal with OpenAI, fraud charges against former AI executives who fabricated 90% of their revenue, and Anthropic's thawing relationship with the Trump administration. Plus updates on Uber's $10B robotaxi bet, Tesla's expansion, and breakthroughs in robotics and neuromorphic computing.

Anthropic and OpenAI both drop major releases on the same day: Claude Opus 4.7 with major coding improvements and Codex with computer use capabilities. Plus, Physical Intelligence shows robots learning untrained tasks and OpenAI releases a life sciences specialized model.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber as a direct counter to Anthropic's restrictive Mythos rollout. Plus, a landmark federal ruling that AI chats are NOT protected by attorney-client privilege. Also covered: Nvidia's Ising quantum AI models, OpenAI's Agents SDK update, Adobe Firefly AI Assistant, Claude Code desktop redesign, and more.

Today's AI news: OpenAI's leaked memo attacking Anthropic, a breakthrough in diffusion language models, Japan's sovereign bet on physical AI, and an AI agent running a real retail store in San Francisco.