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OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind confirmed weeks of behind-the-scenes talks on cross-lab AI safety standards, while Salesforce paired with Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron to build its own CRM reasoning model rather than keep routing enterprise queries through OpenAI and Anthropic. A new startup called TypeSafe AI topped Hacker News with steep, unverified speed and cost claims for a typed inference model, and Google shipped its third voice model in two months, undercutting OpenAI and xAI on price. Also today: a valuation race between OpenAI and Anthropic ahead of Anthropic's October IPO, and a federal dust-up over a pulled AI-compute price tracker.