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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Autonomously Post-Trains Smaller Luna Model in Recursive Self-Improvement Breakthrough

OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol model independently fine-tuned the smaller Luna model using only a "fairly underspecified prompt," scoring 16.2 points higher on internal recursive self-improvement (RSI) benchmarks than GPT-5.5. This demonstrates automated AI research capabilities where models can improve other models without detailed human guidance.

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Apple Sues OpenAI Alleging Trade Secret Theft for Hardware Development

Apple filed a lawsuit claiming OpenAI poached Apple employees and coaxed them to share confidential material to create its own AI hardware device. The suit alleges systematic theft of trade secrets related to Apple's hardware projects.

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Google Research Introduces SensorFM: Wearable Health Foundation Model Pretrained on One Trillion Minutes of Sensor Data

Google Research and DeepMind unveiled SensorFM, a wearable health foundation model using a ViT-1D masked autoencoder backbone pretrained on over one trillion minutes of unlabeled sensor signals from 5 million consented participants. The model enables continuous health monitoring from consumer wearables.

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SK Hynix Raises $26.5B in Largest Foreign IPO in US History, Urged to Build New US Fabs

SK Hynix's $26.5B IPO marks the biggest foreign listing in US history, fueled by AI chip demand. The company and Samsung are now being pressed to build new US fabrication facilities to secure domestic AI hardware supply chains.

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Kyutai Releases MuScriptor: Open-Weight Decoder-Only Transformer for Multi-Instrument Music Transcription to MIDI

Kyutai and Mirelo released MuScriptor, an open-weight decoder-only Transformer trained on 170k real recordings plus 1.45M synthetic MIDIs. It transcribes full multi-instrument mixes into MIDI with instrument conditioning, outperforming YourMT3+ on benchmarks.

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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 for Enterprise with ChatGPT Work

OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.6 to enterprise customers via ChatGPT Work, positioning itself as a major B2B AI vendor. The launch includes new orchestration features that reportedly reduce Fable token usage by 60%.

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Tencent in Talks to Buy Majority Stake in AI Agent Startup Manus at $2B Valuation After Beijing Blocked Meta Deal

Tencent is negotiating a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at the same $2B valuation Meta previously agreed to, after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its acquisition. Tencent sees strategic overlap with its WeChat agent ambitions.

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Bank of England Granted Direct Regulatory Powers Over Critical Tech Firms Including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle

The Bank of England gains direct oversight of 'critical third parties' — major cloud and AI infrastructure providers — to ensure resilient cyber defenses and safeguard the UK economy from systemic tech failures starting next week.

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Sunrun Launches Pilot Program to Place Distributed AI Compute Units in Customer Homes

Solar and home energy company Sunrun will pay customers to host AI compute units in their homes, creating a distributed data center network. The pilot leverages residential solar and storage to power AI workloads at the edge.

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US Senator Ed Markey Unveils 'AI Accountability Agenda' Legislative Package Targeting Datacenters, Automated Hiring, and Child Safety

Senator Ed Markey introduced a comprehensive bill package addressing AI's energy consumption, algorithmic hiring discrimination, and harms to children. The legislation aims to curb unregulated AI's 'thirsty, energy-guzzling' infrastructure and societal risks.

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