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The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
Leading today: The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support. Also in this issue: Are you a Codex Original?; Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra. 16 stories in total, selected automatically from 76 candidates across the day's feeds.
| 1 | openai.com The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI supportOpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support. |
| 2 | openai.com Are you a Codex Original?We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things. |
| 3 | openai.com Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 AstraGPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use. |
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family.
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Read →NVIDIA has launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, an open reference design that enforces AI agent safety outside the agent itself. OpenShell, an Apache 2.0 runtime, sandboxes agents under YAML policies.
Read →Fireworks AI has released Ember-1, a post-trained Kimi K3 that learns to produce shorter reasoning traces instead of lowering reasoning effort.
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OpenAI apologizes for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.
Read →More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" from self-improving AI.
Read →Since launching a year ago, the Microsoft Research Asia — Singapore lab has established a strong foundation, deepened collaboration across government, academia, and industry, and explored how frontier AI research can cre...
Read →Google Research has introduced an AI video co-director for long-form video generation. The suite of 4 agentic frameworks turns short clips into coherent, minutes-long stories.
Read →A comprehensive coding tutorial on Google Research's Massive Sound Embedding Benchmark (MSEB), demonstrating how to implement custom sound encoders, drive classification, clustering, retrieval, and segmentation evaluator...
Read →Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be...
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