OpenAI ships ChatGPT text watermarking to comply with EU AI Act
A finished 2023 detector with 99.9% accuracy sat shelved for three years after a survey found ~30% of users would use ChatGPT less.
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Stripe bought OpenRouter for a reported $8 billion
John Collison confirmed the figure on video; Stripe's spending on Bridge, Metronome, and OpenRouter totals roughly $9.6 billion.
Read storyAnthropic's stock-matching program created a $660 million expense
The Information reports the expense accrued over six months, with early employees able to pledge half their stock to charity at a 3-to-1 match.
Read storySam Altman says next AI incident will catch world off guard
In a Vanity Fair interview, he says Astra 6.1 was delayed for crossing OpenAI's safety threshold and risks can emerge during training.
Read storya16z Top 100 Consumer AI Apps adds a revenue leaderboard
The seventh edition finds the top 1% of AI spenders averaging $903 a month while the median customer spends $25.
Read storyLevelsio ships apartment-style hotel filter as Airbnb ratings compress
Levelsio says rating anxiety had stopped him booking Airbnbs entirely, so he added a filter flagging hotels with kitchens and residential vibes.
Read storyOpenAI sunsets custom GPTs in December, offers plugin migration
Ethan Mollick says creators can move GPTs to private plugins but lose the public distribution that made them a fixture in companies and classrooms.
Read storyDisney returns Pixar content to Netflix after $11B streaming losses
Disney walked away from roughly $150 million a year in Netflix licensing income in 2019 to launch Disney+.
Read storyGoogle launches Motion Assist for motion sickness on Android
Engadget calls the built-in passenger feature Google's answer to Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues.
Read storyGrok 4.7 reportedly tops Frontier v4 benchmark
One user says it beat GPT-6.1 Sol, Opus 5.5, and GPT-6 Astra at every effort level.
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CoreWeave says Vera Rubin outperforming Blackwell for Cognition
EVP Chen Goldberg cites Cognition's experience seeing improvement compared to the Blackwell architecture.
Read storyReflection AI nears open-weight model release, Axios reports
The startup has paid Elon Musk's Colossus $150 million a month for compute since July, on top of a $1 billion Nebius deal.
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