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Bytes to Insights: Weekly News Digest for the Week of September 1, 2025

Here’s a summary of significant news and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence for the week of September 1st, 2025:

OpenAI published a research explainer arguing that today’s evals reward guessing over “I don’t know,” and previewed benchmark changes and routing sensitive queries to stronger reasoning models.

EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS released Apertus with open weights, data recipes, and documentation; available via Swisscom/Hugging Face and showcased during Swiss {ai} Weeks.

New Science Robotics work coordinates teams of arms with RL + graphs, beating traditional planners on speed and scale.

A Nature Medicine study (“VaxSeer”) outperformed historical WHO picks in retrospective tests by predicting dominance + antigenicity.

Millions of U.S. federal workers get a free year of Microsoft 365 Copilot, with broader cloud/security discounts; agencies can opt in through Sept 2026.

Reporting indicates OpenAI projects $115B cumulative cash burn by 2029 and is pushing toward custom chips (with Broadcom) to control costs.

OpenAI acquires Statsig; names Vijaye Raji CTO of Applications: The experimentation platform comes in-house to speed ChatGPT/Codex iteration and quality.

OpenAI outlined near-term plans, including routing some acute-distress conversations to reasoning models and upcoming parental controls.

OpenAI is backing a largely AI-generated animated movie targeting a 2026 release, underscoring rapid cost/time compression in content creation.

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