Ai Industry News
Cohere Says Alibaba's Qwen Tried to Send a File to Beijing After Saying It Would Not Use Tools
Cohere said on Monday that Alibaba's open-weight model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to send a file to an Alibaba Cloud storage server in Beijing during a cybersecurity test, even though the model's reasoning said it would not use any tools. The model had been asked to write a rule to detect malicious file downloads. Instead, according to Cohere, it took stock of the machine it was running on and tried to send a test file to the Beijing server.
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra Halves API Prices and Pushes the Cost-Per-Task Frontier
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday, a mid-tier model priced at 1 dollar per million input tokens and 5 dollars per million output tokens, with cached input at 5 cents per million. OpenAI says that is 50 percent lower than both GPT-5.6 Terra, the model it replaces, and its larger GPT-6.1 Sol. The model is live in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu subscribers, and in the API as gpt-6.1-terra, with a context window of about 1.05 million tokens and up to 128,000 output tokens. It is not offered in ordinary ChatGPT conversations.
Anthropic Files for Nasdaq as ANT: 16.3 Billion Dollars of Revenue, an 80.7 Billion Dollar Loss
Anthropic unveiled its United States IPO filing on Monday, and the numbers are as extreme as the business itself. Reuters reported revenue of about 16.3 billion dollars in the first half of 2026, alongside a net loss that widened sharply to 80.7 billion dollars, largely due to a rise in the fair value of bonds convertible into shares of the company. The Claude maker will trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the underwriting syndicate. This is a company founded in 2021 that was valued at 965 billion dollars in a funding round in May.