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Wednesday, September 30

7 items
Business and investment only one source so far

Australian government reportedly negotiating on training frontier models, says politician Tim Wilson

According to politician Tim Wilson, the Australian government is negotiating with AI companies about training frontier models in Australia. The politician links domestic training to influence over the direction of models and warns against dependence on foreign companies. The article does not state a specific agreement.

Part of a broader thematic overview; only this AI event has been covered.

The Conversation — Artificial Intelligence Original source ↗
Regulation and law only one source so far

Trump ordered the US government to use the term "Super Intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence"

Trump issued an executive order under which the US government will refer to AI as "Super Intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" in official documents and communications. Old documents do not have to be changed. Trump met with tech leaders at the White House and emphasized that AI is not artificial, but powerful and…

Tuesday, September 29

17 items
Business and investment confirmed by 3 independent sources

AMD clarifies terms of the $8.2 billion World Labs acquisition

AMD has released further details on its $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs: it is an all-stock transaction, with co-founders and funding history clarified. Fei-Fei Li will become AMD's Chief Scientist, with closing expected by the end of 2026.

TechCrunch AI · and 2 more sources Details and sources →
New models confirmed by 2 independent sources

GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI is generally available on Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI has made GPT-6.1 Sol generally available on Amazon Bedrock with enterprise data security controls. The model was released in late September as a cheaper replacement for the postponed GPT-6.1 Astra, with coding performance that, according to OpenAI, approaches that flagship version at one-fifth of the price.

OpenAI API Changelog · and 3 more sources Details and sources →
Tools and apps only one source so far

Simon Willison compared output samples of the GPT-6.1-Sol model with the GPT-6 family

Simon Willison published pelican samples created using the GPT-6.1-Sol model. According to his comment, they do not differ significantly from samples created using models from the GPT-6 family. The text does not provide the price or performance comparison mentioned in the heading.

Simon Willison — AI tag (leading independent LLM commentator) Original source ↗
Business and investment clearly official source

OpenAI simplifies API usage tiers from five to three

Starting October 5, OpenAI is introducing three API usage tiers instead of the previous five: Build, Launch, and Grow. Organizations are moved to a higher tier automatically based on the total volume of credits purchased.

OpenAI API Changelog Details and sources →
Tools and apps only one source so far

AWS describes the Contract Intelligence Platform architecture, which replaces RAG for aggregation queries over contracts

AWS has published a case study of a platform architecture for analyzing vendor contracts: instead of classic RAG, it uses AI agents for structured extraction of data into a database, because RAG fails at questions requiring sums and comparisons across hundreds of documents.

AWS Machine Learning Blog Details and sources →