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AI & Tech EdgeOpenAI Launches GPT-6 With Agentic Reasoning, Crushes Benchmarks and Reshapes the AI Race
OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled GPT-6, a frontier model with native agentic reasoning, a 10-million-token context window, and state-of-the-art scores on the ARC-AGI-2, GPQA Diamond, and SWE-Bench Verified benchmarks. Sam Altman called it 'the first model that can finish a knowledge worker's day' — and the launch immediately rattled Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Nvidia's roadmap.
AI & Tech EdgeAnthropic Locks In $1.8 Billion Akamai Cloud Deal as AI Compute Crunch Deepens
Anthropic has signed a reported $1.8 billion multi-year compute agreement with Akamai Technologies, diversifying beyond AWS and Google Cloud as Claude usage outpaces every internal forecast for 2026. The deal lands one day after OpenAI's custom inference chip reveal and confirms what Wall Street already suspected: the AI infrastructure war is now a sovereign-scale arms race for GPUs, power, and edge capacity.
AI & Tech EdgeOpenAI Unveils Custom Inference Chip, Sending Nvidia Shares Tumbling
OpenAI took the wraps off its first in-house inference accelerator on Saturday, claiming a 4x cost-per-token advantage over current Hopper GPUs and confirming Broadcom and TSMC as silicon partners. Nvidia slid 6% in after-hours trading as analysts began rewriting their 2027 AI capex models in real time.
AI & Tech EdgeMeta Acquires Anthropic Rival in $14B All-Stock Deal
The acquisition reshapes the foundational model market and triggers immediate antitrust scrutiny.