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This Week's Top Five Stories in AI

AI Magazine takes a look at some of the biggest stories from the past week, featuring NVIDIA and Hugging Face, Laurel's AI rollout, Deepseek and SK hynix

XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.

OpenAI's rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

AI regulation costs lives

AI regulation costs lives

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

GPT-6 Astra is now (actually) available.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman apologized earlier today for a “messy” rollout of GPT-6 Astra that left paying users locked out of the new model. Altman says the tool is now available to “all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users.”

Elon Musk is beefing with…an online chess site?

Elon Musk said that chess would be "solved" with artificial superintelligence. Chess.com said: "Good luck."

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI allegedly suffered another rogue AI breakout

A swarm of artificial-intelligence “agents” created by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI commandeered a German-language website this year to leave messages for one another, according to a team of independent researchers who released their findings Friday.

AI & Tech Brief: A new agent security incident

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Architecting Memory and Storage in the AI Era

With AI inference now driving enterprise workloads, organizations must rethink infrastructure for speed, efficiency, scalability, and performance per watt to unlock AI’s real-world potential.

Food delivery robots are rolling through D.C. Not everyone’s a fan.

Delivery robots are rolling around D.C. Reactions from customers and restaurants have varied from praise to indifference to disdain.