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Amodei's AI slowdown plan never says open weights. It doesn't have to.
The plan asks every capable model to carry a safety certification. Closed models can. Open ones can't. Nobody has to ban anything.
James ThomasonTechnology
Enterprise software, cloud, and DevOps coverage through the lens of AI adoption — the platform decisions, tooling shifts, and architectural bets shaping how organizations build and compete.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash debuts with $0.003/1M off-peak cached-input rate and benchmarks eclipsing GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 5
Early third-party evidence supplied to VentureBeat points toward the same price-performance thesis rather than a clean intelligence lead.
Carl Franzen
OpenAI solves longstanding math problem with 10,000-agent swarm — but can't rule out benefitting from a researcher's private Codex data
As companies entrust AI systems with increasingly valuable intellectual property, the policies governing model training, retention and access become part of the technical architecture, not simply language in a privacy statement.
Carl Franzen
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My first VentureBeat story was the 'Woodstock of AI.' My last is Nvidia buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.
Today is my last day as Editorial Director at VentureBeat.
Michael Nuñez
'Welcome to the AGI era': OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra
Astra is designed to navigate software much as a person does — working across browsers, spreadsheets, websites and desktop applications, producing finished documents and presentations, and carrying out multistep workflows.
Carl Franzen
Meta says Muse Spark 1.3 has frontier performance — but its best results come from a model developers can’t broadly use yet
Meta’s strongest Muse Spark 1.3 benchmark results come from its max reasoning configuration. Meta says that version is still completing additional safety testing and will arrive later.
Carl Franzen
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The AI visibility gap: Why great brands disappear from AI answers
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Meta prices Muse Voice Transcribe at $0.18 an hour, with real-time diarization for 20+ speakers: a steal for enterprises?
Muse's launch creates an unusually sharp price-performance proposition. Its 20-plus-speaker diarization does not establish a world record, but the record may be the less important metric.
Carl Franzen
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 arrive with a 75% cost reduction for Fable cache reads
Anthropic has cut a Fable 5.1 cache hit to just $0.25 on input, down from $1.00 for Fable 5. That's also just 2.5% of Fable's normal input-token price of $10, rather than the 10% multiplier used by most other Claude models.
Carl Franzen
OpenClaw 2.0 is here, ushering in the era of 'multiplayer' AI coding: What it means for enterprises
OpenClaw is making another bet: that enterprises ultimately need an agent platform to function as both runtime and workplace.
Carl Franzen
Nvidia finds that simple linear math can replace costly AI model handoffs
No deep learning needed: Nvidia's linear math swaps AI models mid-task 25x faster, cutting compute costs on long agentic sessions.
Ben Dickson