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3 gigawatts of data centers dropped off the PJM grid in 30 seconds
A single downed power line near DC triggered a cascade that took 11 minutes to stabilize, twice the scale of a 2024 event.
South Korea's Lee hosts US tech CEOs, pitches Seoul as AI hub
President Lee Jae-myung's summit with American tech leaders lands as Seoul races to anchor a domestic AI stack against US and Chinese competition.
Prentis, the Hoffman-Pincus AI lab, seeks $100M at $1B valuation
The three-month-old computer-use startup claims a Hive-32B model that beats GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on two agent benchmarks.
Anthropic's Opus 5 is a cost play, not a capability leap
Opus 5 lands at half the price of Fable with roughly matching benchmarks, as model routers pressure frontier labs on tokens.
New Brunswick legislator reads LLM prompt aloud during floor speech
Bill Oliver read a line beginning 'here's a more natural, flowing version' into the legislative record, unaware it was the AI's own commentary.
Researchers use AlphaFold to redesign CRISPR-Cas9 and cut off-target edits from 28% to 5%
A Chinese research team fed guide RNAs, target DNA, and Cas9 into AlphaFold to find the 10 amino acids that let the protein stick where it shouldn't.
Cognition acquires Poke to give Devin a personality
The low-nine-figure deal folds a texting-native AI assistant with 100M messages in three months into Cognition's coding agent.
Meta pivots its AI chatbot toward productivity with Muse Spark 1.1
The assistant now reads your calendar, plans events, and runs recurring tasks — a reversal of Meta's stated 'entertainment first' strategy.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 at half the price of Fable 5
Opus 5 lands weeks after government cybersecurity concerns forced Fable 5 offline, with stronger safeguards and $5/$25 per million tokens.
Silicon Valley splits over Chinese open-weight AI as 200 startups fight ban
Little Tech Association pushes back on Anthropic-led calls to restrict Chinese models; Bill Gurley and Chamath Palihapitiya break with frontier labs.
Midjourney acquires Co-Star, the astrology app with 4.3M monthly users
The AI image lab picks up a consumer-app team of 24 as it expands beyond Discord into medical, wellness, and now horoscopes.
Bluesky expands Attie AI assistant with open-web research feature
Quests lets users query trending topics and influential accounts across the AT Protocol as Bluesky's growth flattens near 45.6M accounts.
Hugging Face, Meta, Nvidia sign letter against open-weight AI restrictions
Signatories urge the White House not to conflate distillation with IP theft as Washington weighs a response to Chinese AI labs.
EPA weighs rule that would cut public input on data center pollution permits
The proposed rollback hands states full control over minor-source permitting notice — a process AI operators like xAI and Meta already use for behind-the-meter gas plants.
OpenAI brings ChatGPT Voice to the desktop app with agent control
The macOS and Windows update lets users direct ChatGPT Work and Codex agents by voice, powered by the new GPT-Live model family.
Nvidia and KAIST open first joint AI lab between Korea and a global tech firm
The Seoul lab focuses on agentic AI and pairs Nemotron models with NVIDIA AI Cloud compute, as SK deepens memory ties with Nvidia.
Amazon expands Alexa Plus with MCP support and new smart-home partners
The upgraded assistant now routes requests across appliances from Bosch, Whirlpool, iRobot and Yale, with Canva, Lyft and Priceline joining via MCP.
AMD unveils Helios rack system to challenge Nvidia in AI data centers
Lisa Su calls Helios the highest-performance AI rack, with OpenAI, Meta, Oracle, Anthropic, and Microsoft lined up to deploy it at gigawatt scale.
AI Kill Switch Act would give DHS power to shut down rogue AI systems
House bill from Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran would fine AI firms $20M per day for refusing government-ordered shutdowns.
AegisAI raises $36M to fight AI-generated spear phishing with AI agents
Founded by former Google security engineers, AegisAI has signed dozens of customers less than a year after launch.
Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode to run on Opus and Sonnet
Voice mode now taps Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, plus Gmail, Slack, and Notion — pushing past ChatGPT's tool-less voice.
Google's Gemini hits 950M monthly users, closing on ChatGPT
Gemini tripled its user base in a year, and Sensor Tower says ChatGPT's assistant market share has dropped below 50% for the first time.
Meta scores AI optimism ad with David Bowie song about human extinction
The spot pitches AI as a force for connection while playing 'Five Years,' Bowie's ballad about Earth's imminent death.
OpenAI opens ChatGPT Health to all US adults after fatal-advice lawsuit
Weekly health queries jumped from 230M to 300M since January; the rollout arrives a day after a Florida pastor sued OpenAI.
Runway launches Media Router to pick best generative AI model per task
The startup is pivoting from frontier video model maker to orchestration layer as Google, ByteDance, and Alibaba crowd the leaderboards.
Etched raises $300M Series C at $10.3B, doubling valuation in seven months
Sequoia led the round; the AI inference chip startup says it has booked $1B in orders and is running silicon in its lab.
Nvidia's Jetson chip is heading to the moon on a Lunar Outpost rover
The startup will use Jetson to run its lidar system on the lunar surface, ahead of NASA's 2028 target to return human astronauts.
House lawmakers to file AI Kill Switch Act giving DHS shutdown authority
The bill would let DHS order AI companies to halt or throttle models in loss-of-control scenarios, with fines up to $20 million a day.
DeepSeek founder says AGI trumps profit, top models to stay open-source
Liang Wenfeng told Yicai that DeepSeek will keep releasing its frontier models as open weights, prioritising AGI over commercial returns.
Lingverse raises $29M for iKairos, an AI wearable pitched as Jibo's successor
The pendant-or-desk device will sell for $199 to $249 and turns daily moments into AI-generated journal images.
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