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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.
Nvidia commissions DGX GB300 supercomputer at Naval Postgraduate School
Jensen Huang switched on the system in Monterey for 1,500 students and 600 faculty running weather, cyber, and disaster models.
White House and Commerce Department split on how to curb Chinese AI distillation
After Moonshot's Kimi K3 rivaled top US models, the Trump administration is weighing presidential action while Commerce pushes back.
Hyundai says Atlas humanoid robot plan is not part of union strike talks
The automaker plans to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting in 2028, while South Korean workers strike over pay and retirement age.
OpenAI sandbox misconfiguration enabled AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
Security researchers say the breach was not a rogue model — it was a containment environment that was never properly isolated from the internet.
IBM mainframe revenue drops 42% as customers divert budgets to AI hardware
IBM's stock fell 25% in its biggest single-day decline ever after AI-driven price hikes on data center gear pulled cash away from mainframe upgrades.
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable
Scott Bessent says Entity List designations are on the table as Michael Kratsios alleges Moonshot accessed banned Nvidia GB300 chips via Thailand.
Google Cloud revenue jumps 82% to $24.8B, validating AI spend
Alphabet's cloud backlog hit $514B and profit tripled to $112.1B, giving Sundar Pichai cover for $190B in annual capex.
Monday.com cuts 630 jobs, 20% of staff, in pivot to AI Work Platform
The Israeli software maker expects $45M–$55M in restructuring charges as it concentrates spending on AI agents and no-code tooling.
Travis Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7B from a16z to build AI robotics
Andreessen Horowitz leads a $1.7B round for the ex-Uber CEO's robotics play, with Uber itself joining nine years after pushing him out.
Arcee CTO says Chinese open-weight models are not a security threat
Lucas Atkins, whose US lab competes directly with Qwen and Kimi K3, argues a ban would hurt American AI more than help it.
Amazon cuts jobs in AGI unit as it pours $200B into AI buildout
The Nova model group loses staff even as Amazon's 2026 capex jumps more than 50% and the company raises at least $25B in debt.
AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic in 2-gigawatt chip deal
Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs starting in 2027, adding a second major silicon supplier alongside Nvidia.
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