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MIT CSAIL researchers report that GPT-6 Astra directly changed a small share of Qwen3.5-0.8B's parameters and sharply reduced a looping failure. The benchmark gains mainly came from helping the model finish answers, not from adding new mathematical ability.

Salesforce agreed to acquire Cresta, a deal that would bring voice agents, real-time guidance for contact-center representatives and conversation intelligence to Service Cloud. The transaction is expected to close in Salesforce's fiscal 2028 first quarter, subject to conditions.

OpenAI has appointed former US Army secretary Dan Driscoll to a newly created role advising its leaders and outside partners on national-security modernization.

Anthropic has named eight intermediaries expected to take part in a proposed Australian retail share offer. The prospectus has not been lodged and applications are not open.

Oracle filed a preliminary prospectus for a $10 billion common-stock offering and disclosed a concurrent $10 billion senior-notes offering, putting its October 28 financing plan into motion. Neither proposed offering had been shown to have closed.

Anthropic’s amended IPO filing lays out $895.4 billion in long-term compute and infrastructure obligations stretching to 2045.

An approved demand-response agreement will let Georgia Power cut delivery to OpenAI’s planned Effingham County campus by up to 1,000 MW when the grid is strained.

ADNOC signed a multi-year deal with OpenAI and G42 to deploy OpenAI Frontier across its energy operations on UAE-based infrastructure.