xAI launches Grok 4.3 with ultra-low API pricing, a 1M-token context window, and rapid voice cloning, topping legal and financial benchmarks, but critics slam its coding and math weaknesses and report erratic 'narcolepsy' behavior in autonomous tasks.
AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems is targeting a massive $4 billion IPO with a $40 billion valuation, with formal marketing set to launch as early as Monday amid surging investor demand for its shares.
TALOS-V2 brings AI inference to FPGA hardware, running Karpathy's microGPT at a blazing 50,000 tokens per second on a DE1-SoC Cyclone V board using fixed-point arithmetic and SystemVerilog RTL, complete with real-time controls and token output on onboard displays.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft sign landmark Pentagon deals to embed AI into classified military networks, while Anthropic stands alone, locked in a legal battle with the Trump administration after being flagged as a national security risk by the Defense Department.
The Pentagon signs AI deployment deals with Google, OpenAI, and five other tech giants for classified military networks while keeping Anthropic blacklisted as a supply chain risk, though Anthropic's advanced Mythos AI model raises separate national security concerns that could open the door to a potential future deal.
A Chinese court rules that replacing a worker with AI is not legal grounds for termination, upholding a wrongful dismissal case for a Hangzhou tech worker who faced a 40% pay cut, setting a landmark precedent for labor rights amid rising AI adoption across industries.
OpenAI's o1 AI model outperforms physicians in emergency room diagnoses with a 67% accuracy rate versus 55% and 50% for human doctors, according to a Harvard Medical School study, though experts warn the AI remains unready for real-world use and critics question the fairness of comparing it to internal medicine …
OpenClaw, a self-hosted AI agent platform, rockets to 250,000 GitHub stars in just 60 days, overtaking React as GitHub's most-starred project while NVIDIA rushes to address security vulnerabilities by launching NemoClaw, a hardened reference implementation, as autonomous long-running agents drive a 1,000x surge in inference demand and reshape industries from …
IBM launches Granite 4.1, its most expansive AI model family yet, featuring small language, vision, speech, embedding, and safety models built for enterprise use, all released under an Apache 2.0 license with state-of-the-art performance across document understanding, multilingual transcription, and harm detection.
Oracle is simultaneously navigating a massive banking crisis tied to a $300 billion AI data center deal with OpenAI while slashing up to 30,000 jobs, as analysts warn the tech giant may need over $100 billion in additional financing by 2028 amid mounting debt concerns.