In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI is reportedly seeking to raise up to $100 billion in a new fundraising round, which could value the company at approximately $830 billion. The completion of this funding round is anticipated by the end of the first quarter of 2026 at the earliest. Concerns about a potential AI bubble have been raised, affecting the valuations of tech companies, including OpenAI.

Meta is developing a new AI model focused on images and videos, codenamed Mango, which is expected to be released in the first half of 2026 alongside a new language model named Avocado. This initiative is part of Meta's ongoing efforts to enhance its artificial intelligence capabilities, as stated by Alexandr Wang, the company's AI chief.

Anthropic has launched the Skills Open Standard for its AI model Claude, which aims to enhance the autonomy of AI agents in performing tasks independently. This development signifies a strategic move towards improving AI capabilities and user interaction.

Anthropic has announced the launch of its Agent Skills technology as an open standard, aiming to enhance the capabilities of AI assistants in the enterprise software market. This initiative includes organization-wide management tools and a directory of partner-built skills from notable companies such as Atlassian, Figma, and Canva.

OpenAI and Anthropic are set to expand their office spaces in Dublin, following OpenAI's establishment in the city in 2023 and Anthropic's entry in 2024. This expansion reflects their growing presence in the European market for artificial intelligence development.

Recent research evaluated the vulnerability of leading reasoning models, including OpenAI's o4-mini, Claude-3.7-Sonnet, and Gemini-2.5-Flash, to gaslighting negation attacks, which significantly reduced their accuracy by 25-29% on average across multimodal benchmarks like MMMU, MathVista, and CharXiv. This highlights a critical gap in the robustness of these advanced AI systems against manipulative inputs.

Recent research indicates that repeating input prompts can enhance the performance of non-reasoning large language models (LLMs) such as Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Deepseek, without increasing the number of generated tokens or latency. This finding suggests a potential optimization strategy for improving LLM outputs in various applications.

A man has been charged for allegedly wiping his phone before U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) could conduct a search, raising questions about the legality of such actions. The incident highlights ongoing tensions regarding digital privacy and law enforcement's ability to access personal devices.