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AI News Brief: OpenAI has teamed up with Southeast Asian ride-hailing and delivery platform Grab to launch the regional ‘GO Forward with AI’ program, targeting the Southeast Asian market with the goal of helping around 30,000 Grab platform partners (including drivers, delivery riders, and merchants) build practical AI skills. The initiative is part of a broader skills-training collaboration between the two companies in the region, using structured courses to help partners master the practical…

AI News Brief: In its latest research report ‘The Machine-Native Economy,’ BlackRock argues that the widespread adoption of AI may be an underappreciated driver of crypto demand. Co-authored by Will Su, Robert Mitchnick, Jay Jacobs, and William Helm, the report argues that the rise of AI agents and machine-to-machine payments will boost demand for blockchain and programmable payment infrastructure, including stablecoins and other on-chain assets.

AI news brief: Trump previously appointed David Sacks as his AI and crypto czar, but Sacks stepped down earlier this year after hitting the service limit tied to his status as a Special Government Employee. See the original article for details.

AI news brief: OpenAI has released two new frontier models, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, aimed at real-world daily work use cases rather than just chasing benchmark scores. The two models trade off capability and cost differently: Sol is positioned as the more powerful option for handling complex tasks, while Luna leans lightweight and low-cost, built for high-frequency or large-scale calls. This dual-model…

AI news brief: this story is short on hard details, so here’s the quick rundown. OpenAI updated its prompt caching mechanism for GPT-6, aiming to boost cache hit rates and cut latency and cost. The update adds diagnostic tools so developers can see actual cache hits and misses and optimize prompt structure accordingly, plus ’explicit breakpoints’ to mark fixed vs. variable sections.

AI news brief: After launching GPT-6 Astra earlier this month, OpenAI has expanded the GPT-6 lineup with smaller Sol and Luna updates. OpenAI says Astra delivers next-gen intelligence, while Sol and Luna make that intelligence more efficient and more accessible. Sol is built for complex tasks like coding, while Luna is suited for high-volume, well-defined transactional work like summarizing documents, extracting info, or answering short questions.

AI news brief: Amazon has partnered with San Francisco startup The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) to use living neurons to boost AI model compute speed and cut costs. TBC grows roughly 100,000 neurons on a 4,096-electrode grid in a petri dish, sourced from rat brain tissue and human skin cells induced into neurons, creating a ‘biological computing’ interface that reads neural electrical activity for computation.

AI News Brief: OpenAI recently published a statement outlining its priorities and principles for independent third-party safety assessments of frontier AI models and safety measures, aiming to strengthen the rigor, security, and independence of these evaluations. The post outlines the framework OpenAI wants third-party assessors to follow, including sufficient technical depth to genuinely test the boundaries of model capabilities and potential risks, while ensuring assessors stay free from interference in their methods and conclusions to keep results impartial.

AI News Brief: US President Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House this week for a state visit, with the two sides set to discuss a range of major issues just as the current US-China trade truce is about to expire, adding urgency to the meeting. Analysts expect both sides to take a ‘small concessions, avoid escalation’ approach rather than seek a breakthrough deal. This will be Trump and Xi’s second summit this year, following their May 14 meeting at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.

AI news brief: Hugging Face announced that Jun Kim, creator and maintainer of oMLX, has officially joined the team to support the MLX ecosystem. MLX is Apple’s local AI framework built specifically for Apple Silicon chips, and Hugging Face has long been the go-to platform for publishing and sharing MLX models. This move means oMLX is transitioning from Jun Kim’s side project into an official effort fully backed and funded by Hugging Face.