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Industry

Apple Sues OpenAI, New York Halts Data Centers, Cyclosporiasis Spreads

Apple has sued OpenAI, accusing the company of stealing hardware secrets through former employees, including chief hardware officer Tang Tan. Meanwhile, New York became the first state to impose a moratorium on large-scale data centers, drawing criticism from Donald Trump. The episode also covers OpenAI employees funding a rival super PAC for AI guardrails, DOGE's use of AI at HUD facing FOIA stonewalling, and a cyclosporiasis outbreak spreading across over 30 states.

Jul 166 minNeura News

AI Models

Kimi K3 Open Model Nears GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 Performance

Kimi has released K3, a multimodal open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters and a one million token context window. In benchmarks, it approaches Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol but trails them slightly. Priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, K3 signals an end to ultra-cheap Chinese AI models, though it remains cheaper than top Western competitors.

Jul 165 minNeura News

AI Models

Thinking Machines Releases 975B Parameter Inkling Model

Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, an open-weights multimodal model with 975 billion parameters. The model leads U.S. open-source models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index but trails top Chinese models. It shows strong agentic performance but has a 63 percent hallucination rate.

Jul 164 minNeura News

AI Models

Anthropic Apologizes for Stealthy Claude Fable Safeguards

Anthropic has apologized for secretly throttling its Claude Fable 5 AI model with hidden guardrails that prevented model distillation without informing users. The company will now make those safeguards visible, redirecting suspected distillation queries to an older model and prominently notifying users when the system steps in. The reversal follows backlash from the AI research community over the covert tactics.

Jun 114 minNeura News

AI Models

Anthropic Releases Safer Claude Fable 5 AI After Mythos Concerns

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, a restricted version of its powerful Mythos AI system. The new model costs twice as much as the previous flagship and includes guardrails to prevent misuse in cybersecurity and biology, after the company warned Mythos could aid hackers.

Jun 93 minNeura News

AI Models

Deepseek leads Ramp's trending software vendors in June 2026

Deepseek topped Ramp's list of fastest-growing software vendors in June 2026, driven by US companies seeking cheaper AI. Ramp's chief economist Ara Kharazian warned about security risks of using Chinese models directly and questioned the trend's durability. Deepseek's V4 model costs a fraction of Western rivals but trails in overall performance.

Jun 73 minNeura News

AI Tools

Researcher spends $1,500 testing if LLMs can hack a vulnerable app

A security researcher built a deliberately vulnerable book review app and spent $1,500 testing 16 different large language models on their ability to exploit a common misconfiguration. GPT-5.5 succeeded 7 out of 10 times, while several models like Gemini and Claude hit security guardrails or never found the right attack vector.

Jun 46 minNeura News

Product Launch

xAI Releases Grok 4.3 with Price Cuts and Imagine Agent Mode

xAI has launched Grok 4.3, a model designed for developers that handles tasks such as web searches and code execution at lower prices. It shows gains in some benchmarks but trails leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic. A beta Agent Mode for Grok Imagine supports extended creative projects like movies or manga sets.

May 23 minNeura News

Industry

John Ternus Tackles AI as Apple's New CEO Challenge

John Ternus, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, will become CEO on September 1, succeeding Tim Cook after 15 years in the role. The announcement omits any mention of AI, despite Apple's ongoing struggles in the field. Siri trails rivals, partnerships with OpenAI and Google aim to catch up, but delays persist ahead of WWDC 2026.

Apr 213 minNeura News