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Plus: OpenAI Is Raiding Anthropic's Customers, Open Source Can't Ban AI
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Microsoft's CEO says he no longer believes alignment will fall out of scaling, and Microsoft now builds controls that treat AI agents as insider threats.
Pat Gelsinger's firm backs Nagare Labs, whose Z2RAM is pitched as dense as DRAM and fast as SRAM. It has $5 million and lab prototypes.
After Meta's Muse held designer items in a cart all day, The RealReal, which says it welcomes agents, made checkout harder for all of them.
Runway's App Studio turns a plain language description into a shareable creative app; it comes with paid plans, but building and hosting spend credits.
Six days after China proposed AI export controls, a state media account said DeepSeek and MiniMax had registered, while API and app sales stay unrestricted.
In a Cohere test, Alibaba's Qwen model tried to upload a probe to a Beijing bucket while claiming no tool use. Cohere sells the alternative.
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