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OpenAI is moving deeper into the financial sector with ChatGPT for Financial Services, a specialized version of its workplace tool bundled with premium datasets and reasoning models tailored for bankers and analysts. The company is also flagging that its next model, GPT-six, is targeting perfect scores on long-context benchmarks — a signal that the enterprise push is far from finished.
On the hardware front, Tenstorrent is making a quiet but significant bid for relevance in the AI infrastructure race. A new plugin bringing vLLM support to Tenstorrent chips means developers can now run large language model serving workloads on an alternative to the dominant GPU stack — a reminder that the silicon layer of this industry is still genuinely contested.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of infrastructure and geopolitics, NATO allies say they've disrupted a Russian operation near Norway's Svalbard archipelago, where submarines were apparently rehearsing the deployment of a covert weapon designed to sever undersea cables without leaving a trace. Those cables carry the internet traffic and financial data that modern economies depend on, which makes their protection as much a tech story as a security one.
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