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New York requires large frontier AI developers to register by January 1, 2027

New York opened a registration portal for large frontier AI developers, with registration required by January 1, 2027. The RAISE Act requires covered developers to publish safety frameworks and model transparency reports and report critical safety incidents within 72 hours.

Why it matters

Frontier AI developers can check whether their annual revenue exceeds $500 million to determine whether they fall within the law’s stated scope.

Read at techcrunch.com

Yesterday

  1. Google DeepMindAI

    Google DeepMind rolls out Gemini Robotics 2.5 to robotics partners

    Google DeepMind is rolling out its new vision-language-action model, Gemini Robotics 2.5, to robotics partners. DeepMind reports a 30% to 100% higher task success rate than previous baselines, with tasks completed 20% to 30% faster.

    Why it mattersRobotics developers can use the new open-source ASIMOV-Jailbreak benchmark to test resistance to disguised unsafe requests.

    Read at deepmind.google
  2. Hacker News, Google DeepMind, Vercel, The VergeAI

    Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon for complex coding and reasoning

    Google has made Gemini 4 Carbon available for complex coding, scientific reasoning, and extended agent workflows. Paying developers and enterprises can access Carbon at introductory rates of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

    Why it mattersFor the public-access model, plan around rates of $4 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens after the introductory period expires on November 30, 2026.

    Read at blog.googleRead at deepmind.googleRead at vercel.comRead at theverge.com

Monday

  1. Appndo price tracker · 1d ago

    Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B is cheaper on DeepInfra

    Input $0.085 → $0.075·Output $0.40 → $0.40

    −12%

  2. Appndo price tracker · 1d ago

    GLM 5.3 Flash is cheaper on Prime Intellect

    Input $0.105 → $0.0525·Output $0.50 → $0.25

    −50%

  3. Appndo price tracker · 1d ago

    GLM 5.3 is cheaper on Prime Intellect

    Input $0.50 → $0.40·Output $3.08 → $2.46

    −20%

  4. Appndo price tracker · 1d ago

    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is cheaper on Prime Intellect

    Input $0.0874 → $0.0437·Output $1.20 → $0.70

    −50%

  5. Appndo price tracker · 1d ago

    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is cheaper on Prime Intellect

    Input $0.078 → $0.039·Output $1.20 → $1.20

    −50%
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