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We will talk about agents. AI agents.
They will change the way how we do business, how we interract and even how we do our everyday lives.
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I will let that sit in here for a while, so we can imagine and build the future together one agent at a time...
⚡ WHAT'S AT STAKE TODAY ⚡
- 🏛️⚠️ The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns
- 🤖📈 Anthropic's Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT
- 💰🚀 Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster
- 🌏💸 Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment
- 🎨🖼️ Adobe acquires image and video enhancement tool maker Topaz Labs
- ⚡🔋 Databricks' former AI chief thinks he can cut AI's power bill by 1,000x
- 🎮🤖 General Intuition's $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
- 🛡️🧪 Patronus AI lands $50M to build 'digital worlds' that stress-test AI agents
- 🇪🇺🔧 Europe is pushing back on Washington's chip war
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Trump administration pushes OpenAI to limit GPT 5.6 release over AI safety fears.
The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns
OpenAI's latest model, GPT 5.6, will not be rolling out to the general public the way previous models have. Instead, the company plans to make it available only to a carefully selected group of partners — and it's doing so at the request of the Trump administration, according to a report by The Information.
During an internal staff meeting this week, CEO Sam Altman reportedly explained that the government would be "approving access customer by customer" throughout an initial preview period. If that limited rollout goes smoothly, Altman suggested OpenAI hopes to launch a broader, public release just a "couple of weeks later."
It's a notable shift for a company that has historically moved fast and released widely. The development also signals a meaningful change in tone from the Trump administration, which early on positioned itself as taking a largely hands-off approach to AI regulation. In recent months, however, the White House has moved toward greater federal oversight of powerful new models. Earlier this month, President Trump signed an executive order directing certain AI companies to voluntarily submit new models to the government for testing and evaluation before any public release.
The agencies that reportedly pushed for the limited release of GPT 5.6 are the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. According to The Information, OpenAI's staff also worked closely with government officials during the development of the upcoming release — suggesting a level of collaboration that goes beyond a simple last-minute request.
In many ways, this mirrors what Anthropic has already been doing voluntarily. Earlier this year, Anthropic announced that its powerful new frontier cyber model, Claude Mythos, would only be made available to a small group of partners through a program called Project Glasswing. The company argued that the model was simply too capable to release broadly, warning that in the wrong hands it could cause serious harm.
That decision sparked considerable debate. Critics questioned whether Anthropic's cautious framing was a genuine safety measure or a savvy marketing move designed to generate buzz around an exclusive product. The truth likely sits somewhere in the middle — but the underlying concern about powerful AI models falling into the wrong hands is very real.
Cybercriminals have long relied on automated tools to carry out attacks, but generative AI has dramatically expanded their capabilities. Large language models have shown a troubling ability to write functional malware, and some are now capable of executing full ransomware attacks with little to no human involvement.
The specific worry around frontier cyber models like Mythos — and potentially GPT 5.6 — is that they can identify and exploit software vulnerabilities at speeds no human analyst could match. Given that most complex software systems contain hidden bugs that can serve as entry points into corporate and government networks, the implications are significant. Any organization running sophisticated digital infrastructure could be at risk.
That said, because these models remain closed off from public access, it is genuinely difficult to assess how dangerous they truly are in practice. The threats may be real, but without independent testing, much of the concern remains speculative. What is clear is that both the government and leading AI companies are starting to treat the most powerful models as something closer to sensitive technology than consumer software — and that represents a significant shift in how the industry is approaching AI development and deployment.
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Claude is rapidly gaining paying users, challenging ChatGPT's consumer dominance.
Anthropic's Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT
Anthropic's Claude is making serious inroads with paying consumers, traditionally a market dominated by ChatGPT. Credit card transaction data from Indagari shows Claude's paying user base has grown roughly 75% since January 2026.
Online learning platform DataCamp reports that "Claude" is now its most searched term, with demand for Claude courses outpacing ChatGPT three to one among self-directed learners — an 18x surge in just 30 days.
Despite regulatory challenges and government restrictions on some models, Anthropic continues to grow. ChatGPT still leads overall, but Claude is clearly closing the gap.
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Real Conversations with the People Building the AI Future
The Supercharged Podcast is quickly becoming a space for real, unfiltered conversations about AI — beyond the hype, tools, and surface-level takes.
Each episode dives deep with founders, operators, and builders who are actively working with AI — or building AI-first companies — to uncover how it’s truly changing the way work gets done.
From strategy and systems to real-world execution, these conversations are practical, honest, and focused on what actually works — not just what sounds good.
⚡ Trends for the Future
Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster
Netris secures $15M from Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate AI neocloud deployments worldwide.
The AI boom has sparked a surge of new data center businesses, but getting one up and running is far more complex than it might seem. Even after securing the necessary GPUs, switches, and storage, operators still face months of configuration work before they can serve customers — and every idle day means wasted money on expensive hardware.
Network automation startup Netris believes it has the answer. The company provides software that runs directly on network switches and offers a platform that automates setup, configuration, and ongoing operations for neocloud operators. It also handles network abstraction and hardware-level isolation, enabling neoclouds to serve multiple customers simultaneously — a capability known as multi-tenancy.
Historically, large infrastructure players like AWS, Google, and Microsoft solved these challenges by building their own automation or hiring armies of engineers. Smaller neocloud operators rarely have those resources. Netris CEO Alex Saroyan argues that traditional software-defined networking simply isn't enough for AI workloads, where traffic volumes demand full hardware acceleration. "For AI, software is not okay, because the amount of traffic is so high, everything must be hardware accelerated," he told TechCrunch.
The platform is vendor-agnostic and compatible with both Nvidia and AMD server environments. Nvidia itself was impressed enough by an early demo to recommend Netris to several of its own customers. Today, the startup's technology runs across more than 35 GPU clusters worldwide — totaling around one million GPUs — for clients including Lightning AI, Foxconn, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, TensorWave, and Telus.
Netris has now raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Notably, the company's core technology relies entirely on proprietary algorithms rather than AI, which Saroyan says is intentional. "For changing many thousands of switch configurations, you don't need to be creative. You need to be very persistent and repeatable." a16z partner Guido Appenzeller will join the board, and the funding will go toward hiring engineers and sales staff, expanding hardware vendor support, and further developing the platform.
⚡ Let’s Make AI Actually Useful:
What Would Move the Needle in *Your* Industry?
AI has potential — but generic advice rarely helps.
What would be genuinely valuable for AI to do in your industry right now?
• Automate a painful workflow?
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• Replace a manual process that wastes time?
• Help your team upskill faster?
Tell us what you’d want AI to handle — or where you feel stuck.
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