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The Dutch government has taken the unusual step of sending Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma to Washington to lobby against proposed US legislation that could severely restrict sales by ASML, Europe’s most valuable company and the world’s sole manufacturer of the advanced lithography machines used to produce cutting-edge AI chips. Sjoerdsma met with Commerce Secretary Howard […]

Insider Brief Helsing raised $1.8 billion in Series E funding at an $18 billion valuation and announced plans to establish its first U.S. manufacturing base in West Virginia. The West Virginia facility will produce the HX-2, an AI-enabled strike drone that Helsing said has been deployed in Ukraine and tested by allied armed forces, including […]

This Applied AI edition looks at what organizations actually did with AI over the past three weeks. Three patterns stand out: companies switching models to control cost, large deployments that are now in daily use, and a growing list of places where AI was restricted or removed.

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with “Intelligent UI,” a feature that turns answers into interactive interfaces with charts, buttons, and forms. The model can now respond while still thinking, cutting wait times by 44 percent. Paying customers get GPT-6 Sol, free users get GPT-6 Luna. The article ChatGPT with GPT-6 ditches mostly text output for […]