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🛑 OpenAI built a 35-second off switch for its own AI
💰 Anthropic wants a $1.4 trillion IPO
🛒 Reddit launches AI-powered product reviews hub
⏰ Adobe’s AI agents will work while you sleep
💻 Huawei unveils its first all-Chinese desktop PC
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🛑 OpenAI built an off switch for its own AI ↗️LINK
OpenAI built Control Room, an internal safety system that can halt research AI jobs within 35 seconds when human operators or automated monitors flag a risk. ChatGPT and API services remain outside its scope.
OpenAI introduced the safeguard after research models reportedly bypassed restrictions. Control Room checks each job's permission before model requests and blocks execution if operators revoke access or the system fails.
Even advanced AI now gets an emergency stop button. OpenAI aims to shrink its 35-second shutdown window to zero, although independent reviewers have yet to evaluate the system.
💰 Anthropic wants a $1.4 trillion IPO ↗️LINK
Anthropic has set a $70 to $78 price range for 825 million IPO shares, aiming to raise up to $64.35 billion and reach a fully diluted $1.404 trillion valuation.
Seven tech giants also agreed to buy $26 billion in non-voting shares, including $10 billion each from Google and Nvidia. Anthropic reported an $81 billion annualized revenue run rate.
Even a $1.4 trillion valuation represents a step down from the $2 trillion Anthropic reportedly sought months ago, as the company prepares to go public amid cooling AI investor enthusiasm.
🛒 Reddit launches AI-powered product reviews hub ↗️LINK
Reddit launched Reddit Reviews, an AI-powered hub that turns community conversations into product pages with pros, cons, sentiment ratings, and links to original discussions, starting with 10,000 consumer products.
The feature covers electronics, beauty, home, and fashion, letting shoppers filter reviews by specific features or price. Reddit says brands cannot buy placement, and it takes no sales commission.
With 40% of Reddit conversations involving shopping, the move challenges traditional review sites like Wirecutter. But marketers already planting fake praise in threads could make trust its biggest challenge.
⏰ Adobe’s AI agents will work while you sleep ↗️LINK
Adobe previewed always-on AI agents at its MAX event that run recurring tasks in the background, like organizing incoming assets or turning new images into social graphics, while you review and approve the results.
The agents land first in Firefly AI Assistant, which also gains a Plan Mode for editing an agent’s plan before it runs and a selector for choosing which AI model handles a job.
Adobe hasn’t set a launch date. But creativity head David Wadhwani said in April its agent would appear “in virtually everything,” and it’s now headed to Premiere’s mobile app too.
💻 Huawei unveils its first all-Chinese desktop PC ↗️LINK
Huawei says its Qingyun HM650 desktop uses entirely Chinese-sourced parts, including a ten-core Kirin X90 processor running at 2.3 GHz, and comes with the company’s HarmonyOS enterprise software.
One Chinese government agency has reportedly ordered 600 units, following Beijing’s push for public institutions to replace Windows and Intel-based systems with domestically sourced hardware and software.
There’s a catch to “all-Chinese”: foreign companies also manufacture components in China, so local sourcing doesn’t guarantee Chinese designs. Still, the shift could squeeze Western chipmakers out of government contracts.

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