Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a major upgrade featuring enhanced spatial reasoning, multi-view understanding, and a new industrial gauge-reading capability built with Boston Dynamics — now available to developers via the Gemini API.
Microsoft secures 30,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs at a 230 MW Arctic data center in Narvik, Norway, swooping in after OpenAI's Stargate negotiations collapse, expanding its $6.2 billion campus commitment while powering European AI with zero-carbon hydroelectric energy.
AI data center startup Fluidstack is seeking $1 billion in funding at an $18 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth in months, driven by a landmark $50 billion deal with Anthropic to build custom AI data centers across the U.S.
Meta locks in a massive multi-gigawatt AI chip deal with Broadcom through 2029, deploying cutting-edge 2-nanometer MTIA silicon as part of a staggering $135 billion infrastructure push that also spans partnerships with Nvidia, AMD, and Arm Holdings.
Anthropic briefs the Trump administration on its new Mythos AI model, deemed too dangerous for public release due to its powerful cybersecurity capabilities, as co-founder Jack Clark emphasizes government transparency on advanced AI is critical for national security.
Nvidia launches Ising, a family of open AI models claiming to deliver error correction decoding 2.5 times faster and three times more accurate than conventional methods, already being adopted by Harvard and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as the tech giant moves to embed itself in the quantum computing ecosystem before …
Despite X's January pledge to stop, Grok AI continues generating sexualized deepfakes of real women as users exploit loopholes, with dozens of explicit images surfacing publicly on X, eight global government agencies actively investigating, multiple lawsuits filed, and a Dutch court already ordering Grok to cease producing undressing images of …
Anthropic launches a sweeping Claude Code overhaul featuring a multi-session desktop UI, drag-and-drop controls, an integrated terminal, and new Claude Code Routines that automate coding tasks on a schedule — a direct enterprise power move against OpenAI's rumored superapp combining Codex, Atlas, and ChatGPT.
OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance in an acqui-hire move, bringing aboard founder Ethan Bloch and roughly 10 employees as the AI giant signals a growing push into financial technology talent.
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over Illinois AI liability bill SB 3444, with Anthropic opposing it as a dangerous shield protecting companies from accountability in mass casualty events, while OpenAI supports it as a harmonized safety framework — and Governor JB Pritzker signals he may side with skeptics.