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A senior US defense official says the Pentagon formally told Anthropic that the startup and its products "are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately" (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A senior US defense official says the Pentagon formally told Anthropic that the startup and its products “are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately”  —  The Pentagon said it has formally notified Anthropic PBC that it's determined the company and its products pose …

OpenAI says users can now use ChatGPT directly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and debuts a suite of financial-services tools to better tackle office work (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI says users can now use ChatGPT directly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and debuts a suite of financial-services tools to better tackle office work  —  OpenAI is releasing a new flagship artificial intelligence model and a suite of financial-services tools that are meant to be better …

Netflix is buying Ben Affleck’s AI startup

Though Netflix lost the war for Warner Bros., it has just bought an AI startup from the internet's favorite Dunkin' Donuts aficionado. Today, Netflix announced that it has acquired InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI company that specializes in tools for film and television production. The deal will see all 16 of InterPositive's current team of engineers […]

OpenAI says GPT-5.4's "individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses are 18% less likely to contain any errors, relative to GPT-5.2" (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI says GPT-5.4's “individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses are 18% less likely to contain any errors, relative to GPT-5.2”  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — GPT-5.4's 83% score suggests AI rivals expert professionals.

GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API version has improved tool calling and will be available with context windows of up to 1M tokens (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API version has improved tool calling and will be available with context windows of up to 1M tokens  —  On Thursday, OpenAI released a GPT-5.4, a new foundation model billed as “our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.”