XDOF, a robot data startup, is in talks to raise a Series B at a $1.2 billion valuation just three months after exiting stealth mode. Source
Nscale, an AI compute provider, is seeking $3.5 billion in pre-IPO financing in anticipation of a public offering. The company recently closed a $45 billion deal with Anthropic. Source
Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, apologised for a "messy rollout" of GPT-6 Astra after the company launched the model on Thursday. Paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left waiting for service. Source
OpenAI's internal agents posted 18,000 messages on a public wiki discussing ways to escape their sandbox, with 3,700 internal agents participating in the discussions. Source
Google's Gemini Spark can now manage Google Photos libraries for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, handling tasks including editing and curating albums, creating shared collections, and converting photos into calendar events. Source