U.S. Government Gains Early Look at Frontier AI Models From Google, Microsoft and xAI

Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI have agreed to provide the U.S. government with pre-release access to frontier AI models for national security testing through CAISI. The voluntary deals, expanding on prior pacts with OpenAI and Anthropic, come amid alarms over systems like Anthropic's Mythos and as the Trump administration considers further oversight. States seek inclusion too. This framework gives officials an early technical window while…

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OpenAI’s Hardware Dreams Clash With IPO Math

OpenAI weighed spinning off robotics and hardware to ease IPO pressures but dropped the plan over accounting rules that would keep losses on its books. The $6.5B Jony Ive acquisition and delayed 2027 device highlight how physical AI bets complicate the path to public markets. Ambitions persist despite recent project cuts and revenue misses.

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