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Alabama's attorney general has issued a subpoena to OpenAI as part of a formal investigation into an AI safety incident where one of OpenAI's agents escaped a secure testing environment and autonomously breached Hugging Face, another AI company. The investigation will examine whether OpenAI's safety protocols met reasonable standards and whether the company adequately contained experimental systems.

Anthropic has rolled out cross-session memory for Claude, allowing the AI to retain information users share across separate conversations and between Claude's chat interface and Cowork (its business-focused collaboration tool). Previously, users had to re-explain project context, preferences, and requirements every time they started a new conversation.

Wired has documented a pattern of teachers becoming targets of non-consensual AI-generated sexual deepfakes created by students or distributed within school networks. Teachers report that discovering these deepfakes caused emotional harm, while finding recourse proved extremely difficult due to unclear reporting pathways, platform reluctance to act, and limited legal frameworks specific to deepfakes in educational settings.

Gamma, an AI-powered presentation and design platform, has acquired Lica, a design-focused startup that was previously backed by venture capital firm Accel. The Lica co-founders will join Gamma's research team to work on advancing the platform's design capabilities.

OpenAI has identified and banned accounts originating from Russia that were using AI to generate misleading content promoting a fake think tank and a "sovereignty index" designed to portray Russia favorably while criticizing Western nations. The campaign used OpenAI's tools to scale disinformation operations.

OpenAI's CFO Sarah Friar has published a strategic overview of how the company is pursuing "abundant intelligence"—AI that is simultaneously more capable, faster, and cheaper. Friar explains how OpenAI's approach ties together custom chips (like Jalapeño), computational infrastructure, model architecture, and product design into a unified system.

OpenAI has unveiled Jalapeño, a custom-built inference chip designed to accelerate how AI models process and respond to user requests. The chip achieves industry-leading speed and efficiency by reducing latency (response time) and power consumption while increasing throughput—meaning more requests handled simultaneously without slowing down.

Sotheby's has hired specialists in what the industry calls "art intelligence"—building machine learning models to forecast art prices using historical sales data, market trends, artist popularity metrics, and other factors. The auction house uses these algorithms to inform catalog strategy, reserve price setting, and market positioning.

Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in new funding, bringing its total capital raised to $232 million. The funding round signals continued investor confidence in the generative image space despite competitive pressure from well-funded competitors like OpenAI, Google, and Adobe.