The Axios story floating around about OpenAI limiting the release of their newest model Spud isn’t true. Just spoke to OpenAI, and it appears the story conflated two things. They do have a cyber product they are testing with a trusted tester group. But this is not the same
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OpenAI Cyber Product Clarification: Not Related to Spud Model
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I just spoke to OpenAI, and this is actually false. OpenAI is working on a cyber product with a trusted tester group. But this is NOT related to Spud, their newest model. Unfortunately seems like the Axios story conflated the two, and has now been updated.
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OpenAI Develops Cyber Product Separate from Spud Model
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Update: I just spoke to OpenAI and this is false. OpenAI is working on a cyber product with a trusted tester group. But this is NOT related to Spud, their newest model. Unfortunately seems like the Axios story conflated the two, and has now been updated.
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Meta’s Consumer Push Squeezes OpenAI’s Market Position
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Enterprise is Anthropic's. Consumer is OpenAI's. Meta entering consumer puts OpenAI in a squeeze.
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Copilot in Word: Retrofitting AI onto Legacy Software
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Retrofitting Copilot onto Word is the software equivalent of adding electric motors to a horse carriage. The vehicle is still the wrong shape for what comes next.
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Digital Infrastructure Control: Key to Corporate Wealth in 2026
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The richest corporations in 2026 aren’t just big. They control the infrastructure of the digital economy. Scale matters, but positioning matters more. #Business #AI #Economy Source 🙏🏻@ Alvin Foo @IanLJones98 @NevilleGaunt @bamitav @altiamkabir @sijlalhussain @marcusborba @jblefevre60 @Nicochan33 @TerenceLeungSF @KirkDBorne @CurieuxExplorer @enilev @Eli_Krumova @pascal_bornet @anand_narang @sulefati7 @Xbond49 @Hana_ElSayyed @engmlubbad @Timothy_Hughes @mcanducci @RLDI_Lamy @segundoatdell @engmlubbad @rvp @ipfcoline1 @PatGrant7777 @NigelTozer @Ronald_vanLoon @pierrepinna @Khulood_Almani @BetaMoroney @AKWY
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Anthropic’s Internal-Public AI Capability Gap Exposed by Mythos
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The gap between what Anthropic uses internally and what gets released publicly is something every AI lab has. Mythos just made that gap visible and documented it in 244 pages.
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India AI Summit 2026: $200 billion investment surge announced
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The #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026 catalysed landmark investment announcements across the AI stack from Reliance Industries' $110 billion commitment to Google's $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam. Over $200 billion in AI-related investments are expected in the years ahead. India is
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Safety Company Alignment Issues Compared to Competitors
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I’m not surprised, defo an alignment issue tho, funny how the safety company here is far worse than the competition.
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Microsoft Launches Tool to Convert Files into Markdown
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Breaking: Microsoft just shipped a tool that converts almost any file format into clean Markdown automatically. PDFs, Word docs, Excel sheets, PowerPoint decks, audio files, YouTube URLs. All of it. Clean output every time. Markdown is the format large language models process best and getting files into it has always been messier than it should be. No clean parser, broken layouts, scrambled text. This removes all of that. One install. Clean structured markup. Ready for any model to consume. (Link in the comments) [Translated from EN to English]
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