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Inception says its Mercury 3 diffusion model runs at 1,068 tokens a second and outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5. Its own benchmark table is mixed, and outlets report lower speeds on OpenRouter.
24 Oct 2026The site that tracked game decompilation progress has disabled its public index, saying AI-assisted forks and rushed ports have broken the community. Two days earlier, Xbox announced Xbox Labs.
23 Oct 2026Uber told TechCrunch on Thursday that its entire global workforce, some 30,000 people, will now use OpenAI's ChatGPT Work. Earlier this year, 1,000 employees piloted the tool.
22 Oct 2026Federal disclosures show OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, The Verge reports. By The Verge's figures, together they spent about $5.8 million.
22 Oct 2026Reuters reports that DeepSeek is wrapping up a round of about 100 billion yuan ($14.98bn) with CATL and Tencent among the biggest investors. The US ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products two days earlier.
22 Oct 20261Password says its new platform lets personal AI agents sign in on a user's behalf while the password stays in 1Password. Its blog lists some integrations as rolling out and others as coming soon.
22 Oct 2026Anthropic and Citrini Research used an unreleased Claude model to design proteins against scorpion toxins. Seventeen designs met the binder criteria; Anthropic says it does not claim to have produced an antivenom.
22 Oct 2026Google Cloud says OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out in private preview to select enterprise customers in its Model Garden.
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