The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6, its newest model, over security concerns. Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, told employees Wednesday that the company will release the model in limited preview form, granting access only to a small group of partners rather than to the broader public. Source
Patronus AI, a startup founded by former Meta AI researchers, has raised $50 million to build digital worlds that stress-test AI agents. The company is experiencing nearly insatiable demand from investors, according to its backers. Source
General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of video-game footage, betting that action data can help artificial intelligence develop something closer to human intuition. The company is leveraging gameplay as training material to develop agents capable of real-world tasks. Source
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of mounting the largest cloning attack on Claude, its flagship AI model. The Chinese company allegedly used 25,000 accounts to mine Claude over 28.8 million exchanges, and Anthropic is calling for punishment. Source
The New York Times has amended its lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing Microsoft of encouraging OpenAI to train its artificial-intelligence systems using copyrighted articles. The new court filing escalates the copyright dispute between the newspaper and the two technology companies. Source