DeepSeek releases groundbreaking open-source AI model achieving 10x efficiency boost that could revolutionize how companies process massive datasets, while Meta cuts 600 AI jobs and Reddit launches lawsuits against data scraping operations.
New AI research discovers that training smaller models on more data dramatically outperforms building larger models with limited data when working within tight computing budgets, revealing practitioners should prioritize gathering more training tokens over expanding model parameters as budgets increase.
Google and Anthropic forge a massive tens-of-billions cloud partnership granting access to one million TPUs and over a gigawatt of compute capacity by 2026, fueling Anthropic's explosive growth toward $7 billion annual revenue as Claude AI serves 300,000+ businesses.
Kaggle founders' new startup Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5 million in funding, using AI and knowledge graphs to revolutionize sales intelligence by analyzing web data, social media, and regulatory filings for 2.6 million companies, already attracting 19 enterprise customers including Snowflake and Figma with 550% revenue growth.
Veeam acquires data security firm Securiti AI for $1.725 billion in cash and stock, with founder Rehan Jalil joining as president of security and AI to help enterprises better control and secure their data for AI applications as the deal closes in early December.
AI hiring platform Findem raises $51 million in new funding as its customer base explodes 100x to over 12,000 users in just 12 months, leveraging 1.6 trillion data points to revolutionize talent matching for major companies like Adobe and RingCentral.
AWS suffers massive outage impacting over 108 services across US-EAST-1 region as DNS failures cascade through DynamoDB, EC2, Lambda, and CloudWatch, with internal network monitoring issues triggering widespread connectivity problems before full restoration at 3:01 PM.
Leadbay AI launches claiming to discover 3x more small business leads than LinkedIn by targeting overlooked, data-scarce markets that traditional platforms miss, with founders asserting existing tools cover only 0.001% of digital signals and helped clients close 55% more deals from previously unknown companies.
AI infrastructure company Groq raises $750 million at a $6.9 billion valuation, led by Disruptive with BlackRock participation, as the firm powers over two million developers and Fortune 500 companies with fast compute solutions across multiple continents.
Google launches Grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API, enabling developers to build location-aware AI applications that tap into geospatial data from over 250 million places for enhanced travel planning, real estate insights, and hyper-local recommendations.