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xAI Drops Grok 4.3 with 1M Context, Voice Cloning, and Prices That Undercut Everyone

Elon Musk's xAI shipped Grok 4.3 at $1.25 per million input tokens — 40% cheaper than its predecessor — alongside Custom Voices voice cloning and a 1 million token context window, marking xAI's most aggressive developer push yet.

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Wired / Startup Fortune·4 days ago

OpenAI Turns on Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users

Wired reports OpenAI enabled marketing cookies by default for free-tier ChatGPT users in the US — exposing the commercial pressure beneath AI's infrastructure narrative and creating a two-tier data relationship that mirrors ad-supported social media.

The Hollywood Reporter / Variety / AP·4 days ago

Oscars Ban AI: Only Humans Can Win Acting and Writing Awards

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences drew a hard line against generative AI, ruling that only human-performed acting and human-authored screenplays are eligible for Oscars — while also overhauling international film eligibility rules.

Fortune / Yale CELI·4 days ago

Anthropic Mythos Exposes the Corporate Governance Crisis Every CEO Must Face

Yale's Chief Executive Leadership Institute warns that Anthropic's Mythos model — capable of superhuman coding and autonomous cyber attacks — has exposed a governance gap that could break enterprise AI deployment without immediate intervention.

TechCrunch / The Verge / DefenseScoop·4 days ago

Pentagon Signs 8 AI Giants for Classified Networks, Blacklists Anthropic

The Department of Defense inked deals with OpenAI, Google, SpaceX, Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, and Reflection AI for classified military AI — while Anthropic was designated a 'supply chain risk' after refusing 'any lawful use' contract language.

AI News Briefs / io.net·Apr 29

OpenAI Misses Revenue Targets as $852B Valuation Faces Reality Check

OpenAI reportedly missed user and revenue targets, with its own CFO questioning whether the company can fund future compute contracts—fueling debate over whether the $852B AI giant is overvalued.

Xinhua / CAS·Apr 29

China's CAS Unveils ScienceOne 100: An AI System Built for Scientific Discovery

The Chinese Academy of Sciences launched ScienceOne 100, a multidisciplinary AI model system powering research across mathematics, physics, and biology—marking a shift toward collaborative, platform-based scientific innovation.

Bloomberg / TokenMix Research·Apr 29

US AI Giants Unite Against Chinese Model Theft: The Distillation War

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google formed a united front through the Frontier Model Forum to block adversarial distillation by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax—alleging 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16M stolen Claude exchanges.

OpenAI / Verdant.ai·Apr 29

OpenAI GPT-5.5 Ships: The Model That Turns Chatbots Into Agents

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 launches with agentic coding, computer use, and autonomous task completion—marking a shift from conversational AI to autonomous systems that plan, act, and self-correct.

TechCrunch·Apr 29

Google to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic at $350B Valuation

Google commits $10B now with up to $40B total in Anthropic, alongside Amazon's $5B and a $100B compute agreement, as the AI arms race shifts to infrastructure dominance.

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