
OpenAI Names Its First ChatGPT Futures Class, Backing 26 Student AI Builders
OpenAI awarded 10,000 dollar grants to 26 young people building with AI, the first cohort to start and finish college alongside ChatGPT, in a program that doubles as a talent and goodwill play in education.

Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5, a New Flagship Tier Above Opus
Anthropic introduced Claude Fable 5, its most capable model yet and the first entry in a new tier above Opus, with a 1M-token context window and premium $10/$50-per-million pricing that signals the end of the AI subsidy era.

OpenAI Pulls Back From Full Automation, Betting on Humans and AI in Tandem
Eight months after promising a fully autonomous AI researcher by 2028, OpenAI has rewritten the goal around human-machine partnership and called for an international body that could slow frontier development. The retreat says as much about strategy as it does about safety.

StepFun Races to a Hong Kong IPO, Putting China's AI Six Tigers on the Public Market
Tencent and Alibaba-backed StepFun is set to list in Hong Kong at a valuation near 10 billion dollars, the first of China's AI Six Tigers to test public markets and a barometer for how investors price Chinese frontier AI.