OpenAI has working inference silicon and no public benchmark
Jalapeño is running GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark in the lab. OpenAI says a technical report is coming; until then, its efficiency claims remain unmeasured in public.
Thinking Machines releases Inkling with downloadable weights
The 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model uses 41 billion parameters per token and carries an Apache 2.0 license.
Fireworks reports $1B revenue run rate and 40T daily tokens
A $1.505 billion Series D values the inference platform at $17.5 billion, with Nvidia among the participating investors.
The Wall Has Four Clocks, and We Read Them as One
New evidence shows multi-hour agent task horizons and widening control gaps. It still does not establish recursive self-improvement or economy-wide job replacement.
GuardFall Exposed Shell-Guard Bypasses in Ten Coding Agents
Adversa AI's June disclosure names the gap between the command your agent's safety filter reads and the command bash actually runs.
EU AI Office Enforcement Begins August 2
On August 2, Commission enforcement powers over GPAI providers begin, and Article 50 transparency obligations start to apply.
What Tokens per Watt Actually Measures
The metric compares token throughput with power draw, and comparisons require a common workload, latency target, and system boundary.
Chinese Models Take More Than 30% of US Companies' OpenRouter Tokens
DeepSeek V4 Flash lists at $0.14 per million input tokens, versus $5 for GPT-5.5, while Chinese models' share of US-company traffic on OpenRouter has remained above 30% since February.
Five New York AI Bills Await Hochul's Action
The package includes a one-year pause on state permits for data centers above 20MW and a ban on surveillance pricing based on personal data.
Gravitee: 14.4% of Surveyed Organizations Fully Approved Their Agent Fleets
A 919-person survey found full fleet approval was rare, while 59% reported confirmed incidents and 29% reported suspected incidents.
Meta Opens a Metered Muse API
Muse Spark 1.1 lists at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens through Meta's proprietary model API.
FTC Frames AI Output Steering as a Deception Risk
The July 1 policy statement targets undisclosed model steering and sets up a fight with state AI-bias rules.