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The Download: brain-melting heatwaves and unprecedented OpenAI restrictions

This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figure out why.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It’s been hot in London this week.

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The Download: brain-melting heatwaves and unprecedented OpenAI restrictions

This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.
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Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figure out why.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It’s been hot in London this week.
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The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns

OpenAI’s release of its newest model, GPT 5.6, reportedly won’t be like its previous releases.
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Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

AI agents are becoming more sophisticated.
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Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

Consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude, trend data from credit card transaction analysis company Indagari shows.
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From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agen…

As soon as I entered General Intuition’s R&D floor at its New York office, the company’s 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my at...
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Adobe acquires image and video enhancement tool maker Topaz Labs

Adobe on Thursday said it is acquiring Topaz Labs , which offers AI models for video and image enhancement, and that it will make it a part of its...
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Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment

Amazon on Thursday said it would invest an additional $13 billion to expand its AI and cloud footprint in India through 2030.
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How agents are transforming work

A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.
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Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war

In Brief Posted: Connie Loizos Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma visited Washington this week t...
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AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals

In Brief Posted: Amanda Silberling Lucas Ropek AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander...
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Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

In Brief Posted: Lucas Ropek Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks The era of tokenmaxxing is over.
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