OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, one of the company's longest-serving executives, is departing to launch a new venture, adding to a growing wave of senior leadership exits as the AI giant prepares for a major IPO.
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a powerful 30-billion-parameter open AI model, paired with NeMo Switchyard, an open-source routing tool that dynamically assigns tasks to the most cost-efficient model available, slashing inference costs by up to 74% while maintaining frontier-level performance.
A groundbreaking mathematical link between data compression and AI prediction reveals that language models are essentially compression engines, a discovery with major practical implications for making LLMs faster and more efficient through techniques like quantization.
Google DeepMind appoints Koray Kavukcuoglu as SVP to lead Gemini development as the tech giant races to close a growing AI performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic, signaling a major strategic push toward faster model releases and product-focused execution.
ChatGPT and Codex now allow users to seamlessly import projects, settings, memories, and recent chats from rival AI tools Claude and Cursor, making it easier than ever to switch or consolidate AI workflows without losing existing configurations.
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a free, open-source AI model that runs on a single GPU, directly challenging OpenAI and Anthropic while companies like CrowdStrike and Harvey are already putting it to the test.
Oumi, founded by a former Google Gemini lead, launches a platform enabling enterprises to build and own custom AI models in hours, challenging Big AI Labs as major companies like Thomson Reuters ditch costly rentals from OpenAI and Anthropic in favor of full control, customization, and data privacy.
Databricks acquires Electric, the company behind PGlite, bringing full Postgres database power to phones, browsers, and AI agents via WebAssembly, enabling faster AI-assisted development on low-powered devices while syncing locally-run databases to enterprise cloud systems.
Major tech companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta are rolling out AI content watermarking to comply with new EU AI Act regulations, as alarming studies show 97% of music listeners can't distinguish AI-generated songs from real ones, raising urgent questions about the future of content authenticity.
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