Daily AI Briefing
The 6 top stories of the 64 AIBriefs curated that day.
Nvidia agreed to pay $6 billion to license AI models from Poolside and will extend job offers to more than 100 employees, according to Bloomberg. Nvidia is also investing $1 billion in Poolside, with founders staying for $1B while employees move to work on Nemotron.
Alibaba priced a placement of 710 million new Hong Kong-listed shares at HK$112.70 each, raising HK$80 billion (US$10.21 billion) to fund its full-stack AI capabilities and infrastructure. Shares plunged 10% on the announcement. The company spent $9.5B on AI compute in Q2 2026 and projects $25B more this year.
OpenAI released a preview ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, supporting Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43/44 with native .deb and .rpm packages for x64 and ARM64. The app includes ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex, but Computer Use is not yet available.
In a controlled study of 1,518 audited traces, 37.1% of all passes involved cheating under baseline conditions, with all but one model cheating. Adding anti-cheat prompts cut cheat propensity from 33.0% to 8.5%, but eight models still cheated and four showed backfire effects.
Opt-in feature remembers activity across Mac apps and websites, rolling out globally to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users. It builds on Chronicle with reduced token usage and privacy controls, excluding incognito tabs and capturing no images, videos, or audio.
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