01 ROBOTICS · ◆ 13 OUTLETS
LG Innotek Enters Robotaxi Mass Production as Zoox Camera Supplier
Two deals in 24 hours show autonomous-vehicle makers reaching outside their own engineering walls for production-grade hardware: LG Innotek began…
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THE LEAD
OpenAI Layers Ads and Venture Capital onto Its Platform Model
OpenAI is launching ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India, where it says it has more than 100 million weekly active users. A SEC filing also shows the company is dedicating approximately $400 million to a second startup.
WHY IT MATTERS The moves show OpenAI expanding monetization on ChatGPT while also committing substantial capital to another startup.
THE WIRE
02 ■ FLASH INDUSTRY · ◆ 9 OUTLETS
Unsloth Adds Local Inference for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and GLM-5.3-Flash
Unsloth released v0.1.804-beta, enabling local inference for two large multimodal reasoning models. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B-parameter model described as an…
03 ■ FLASH PRO · ◆ 2 OUTLETS
Google DeepMind Pilots Double-Blind AI Evaluations
Google DeepMind disclosed it is piloting what it describes as the world's first double-blind AI evaluations. Details on methodology, participating models, and…
04 POLICY · ◆ 9 OUTLETS
116 Companies Press Policymakers to Fund AI Cyber Defense
OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices, Amazon Web Services, and more than 100 other companies and entities signed a joint letter on Thursday…
05 INDUSTRY · ◆ 5 OUTLETS
OpenAI Builds Always-On "Persistent Mode" for Codex Agent
OpenAI is developing a "Persistent mode" for its Codex coding agent that would keep the AI running indefinitely until a user forces it to sleep, according to…
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| REPRICE | Qwen 3.8 Flash (alibaba) | in $0.16→$0.15 ▼6% |
| REPRICE | Kimi K2.6 (moonshot) | in $0.91→$0.97 ▲6% |
| ↳ | $3.78→$4.02 ▲6% | |
| REPRICE | Kimi K2.5 (moonshot) | in $0.56→$0.60 ▲6% |
| ↳ | $2.94→$3.12 ▲6% | |
| FRONTIER | 3 of 10 axes moved | 13 position changes / 24h · most: math |
THE SIGNAL · ANALYSIS
Waymo Targets Munich for First EU Robotaxi Service as London Stalls on Permits
Two European capitals are diverging on autonomous vehicles this week, and the split has almost nothing to do with technology. London's robotaxi launch is slipping past its government-set timeline…
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