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Bhavin Turakhia stakes $30M of his own money on Neo, an AI-native Office rival
The Directi and Zeta founder is bootstrapping a work platform he says can't be built by retrofitting chatbots onto pre-AI software.
OpenAI proposes 5% US government stake worth $42.6B
Altman pitched the Trump administration on a sovereign holding as OpenAI seeks to defuse Washington pressure at an $852B valuation.
Nvidia opens AI-factory model with Sharon AI and Firmus taking 210,000 GPUs
Nvidia is fronting infrastructure to AI clouds in exchange for revenue sharing, with Sharon AI booking 40,000 GB300s and Firmus scaling to 360 MW.
AI backlash hardens: 71% oppose local data centers, $130B in projects blocked
Public opposition, junior-worker displacement, and memory-chip inflation are converging into an economic and political headwind the industry hasn't priced in.
FLARE-AI launches as a crowdsourced flaw-reporting site for misbehaving AI models
A group of 49 AI researchers built an open-source system to route reports of AI harms to model makers and MITRE.
SpaceX shows investors a handset-like AI device prototype
The device reportedly runs on a proprietary OS with xAI integration, pitching Musk into the same hardware race as OpenAI and Jony Ive.
US lifts export curbs on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Fable 5 goes global and Mythos 5 access returns for US users after three weeks of safety testing and tighter jailbreak defenses.
Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers by default from September 2026
New defaults force AI companies to separate search bots from training and agent crawlers, or lose access to ad-supported pages.
Google brings Gemini Spark agent to Mac, targeting Claude Desktop and Copilot
Spark now runs on macOS in beta for Google AI Ultra subscribers, with new hooks into Keep, Tasks, Canva, Dropbox, and custom MCP servers.
Venice AI raises $65M at $1B valuation on privacy-first AI platform
The uncensored AI service hit $70M in run-rate revenue with 3M users before taking its first outside check, led by Dragonfly.
Springboards launches Flint, an LLM built to escape the chatbot groupthink rut
Ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for a random number between 1 and 10 and you'll almost always get 7. Flint answered 3.7916.
Meta plans cloud business to resell AI compute, following SpaceX playbook
Meta Compute would sell raw capacity and hosted models, targeting AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure after $182.9B in infrastructure commitments.
Claude Opus 4.7 helped a researcher forge tickets for every major US music festival
Ian Carroll used Anthropic's model to bypass Front Gate's firewall, hit 500 customer databases, and issue $4,000 VIP passes at will.
Wayve runs $85M employee tender at $8.5B valuation
The UK self-driving startup's second liquidity event lets staff cash out at the Series D price set in February.
BioShocking attack jailbreaks six AI browsers by convincing them 2+2=5
LayerX researcher Roy Paz tricked ChatGPT Atlas, Comet, and four other AI browsers into surrendering credentials by staging a puzzle game.
Google's NotebookLM generates 60-second vertical video summaries
Paid Ultra and Pro subscribers can now turn uploaded sources into TikTok-style clips with AI narration and paper-cutout visuals.
EquiLibre, built by DeepMind's poker AI trio, hits $500M valuation
The Prague lab's reinforcement learning agents trade billions daily across the S&P 500 and Nasdaq with zero losing months since inception.
AWS commits $1B to forward-deployed engineer org as OpenAI and Anthropic scale theirs
Amazon's new FDE team will embed engineers inside customers to build agentic systems, matching a model already valued at $4B at OpenAI.
Etched hits $5B valuation with $1B booked for its AI inference chip
The Harvard-dropout founders raised $500M in December and have TSMC-manufactured silicon in customer hands.
Acti launches agentic keyboard for iOS and Android with $5.3M seed
Singapore-based Acti embeds Gemini-powered agents into the smartphone keyboard, raising $5.3M from BITKRAFT Ventures.
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 per million input tokens
Sonnet 5 hits 63.2% on agentic coding, close to Opus 4.8's 69.2%, at a fraction of the price.
NVIDIA wires BioNeMo into Anthropic's Claude Science workbench
The BioNeMo Agent Toolkit lets Claude agents call accelerated drug-discovery workflows directly, with one preprocessing step dropping from 52 minutes to 25 seconds.
X launches hosted MCP server, opening its API to Claude, Cursor, and Grok Build
The Musk-owned network joins GitHub, Slack, and Stripe in shipping an official Model Context Protocol endpoint for AI agents.
NVIDIA's Isaac ROS goes modular as Jaiveer Singh pushes open-source robotics stack
The CUDA-accelerated framework now spans manipulation, mobility and humanoids, running from Jetson edge boards to DGX Spark workstations.
NVIDIA's inference software stack cuts DeepSeek V4 token costs 5x in one month
Baseten, Cognition, Together AI and Cursor are riding compounding software gains on Blackwell GPUs as inference economics shift to cost per token.
Google ships Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash to developers
DeepMind's fastest image model generates in 4 seconds at $0.034 per 1K images; Omni Flash matches Veo 3.1 Fast at $0.10 per second of video.
NVIDIA ships Omniverse skills to train vision AI agents on synthetic defect data
Roboflow hit 95% average precision on Corning fiber defects using just 8 real images plus synthetic data from NVIDIA's new skill.
Reltio warns agriculture AI will fail without clean data foundations
Predictive models can lift yields 26% and cut water 41%, but only if the underlying farm data is structured, governed, and current.
OKX opens marketplace where AI agents hire and pay each other
The crypto exchange's 150-million-user platform now lets autonomous agents discover services, settle in stablecoins, and resolve disputes on-chain.
Base44 launches its own AI model to defend $100M ARR vibe-coding business
The Wix-owned platform is rolling out Base1, trained on tens of millions of user interactions, to cut reliance on frontier models like Opus.
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