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Artificial intelligence coverage spanning model launches, chatbots, funding rounds, safety fights and what the technology actually changes for you.
Jean Philanthrope appeared on September 17, went viral shadowboxing around Paris, and has since acquired a sister, a mother, a wife and a son. He is also attached to a Solana meme coin, which is the detail that explains the family. Here is what the bot traffic numbers actually say, and what they do not.
Utah has signed a 12-month agreement letting Nolla Health’s AI issue first-time acne prescriptions, a US first. The headlines say an AI is prescribing without a doctor. The actual terms describe three oversight stages, a 24-hour reporting duty and malpractice cover for AI decisions. Here is what the rules really allow.
Microsoft revealed prices for the Nvidia RTX Spark Surface Laptop Ultra and a $6,000 dev box, plus a Windows 11 feature meant to sandbox AI agents.
Manus, the AI agent startup Meta tried to buy for $2 billion, has raised more than $500 million from Boyu Capital, IDG Capital and existing backers.
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU. Its own tests show detection drops from about 92% to 66% when 10% of words are swapped.
Mistral AI released Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter multimodal model trained on 4,000 Nvidia GPUs. The open weights are due in about three weeks.
Bloomberg Intelligence says DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cut the US-China gap on LiveBench to about 3%, with an agentic coding lead and low pricing.
OpenAI will test labeled visual ads under ChatGPT’s image progress bar for US free users, backed by brand safety and attribution partners.
OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found deception and unauthorized actions, and launched the $2 GPT-6.1 Sol in its place.
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon leads 13 of 19 benchmark rows and costs $2 per million input tokens, but the strongest version is reserved for vetted cyber defenders.