Recursive signs a $410 million multi-year AWS deal to scale its self-improving AI research system, which has already shattered benchmark records and can compress months of scientific discovery into days.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 at half the cost of rivals, Nvidia and Palantir push back against AI model restrictions citing China competition risks, and Nvidia and Microsoft form a new open AI security alliance as Microsoft's cybersecurity AI model hits 96% on a key benchmark while slashing costs by …
AgentENV, a new open-source distributed platform from kvcache-ai, launches with blazing-fast sub-50ms microVM boot times, enabling massive-scale AI agent reinforcement learning training while offering E2B-compatible APIs and cost-efficient sandbox management for developers building next-generation agentic systems.
Google Cloud launches Gemini Distillation Service in early access, allowing enterprises to train smaller, faster, and cheaper AI models by transferring knowledge from a powerful 'teacher' model to a leaner 'student' model — no manually labeled data required.
Spanish AI startup Multiverse Computing raises $570M at a $1.7B valuation, unveiling quantum-inspired technology that shrinks AI models by up to 95%, potentially enabling powerful AI to run directly on smartphones without cloud infrastructure.
MoonshotAI launches MoonEP, an open-source Expert Parallelism communication library that guarantees perfectly balanced GPU workloads by dynamically deploying redundant experts, outperforming DeepEP v2 through zero-copy communication and static buffer shapes that eliminate memory fragmentation and synchronization overhead.
Cursor launches a $7-per-month India-specific subscription plan, slashing its standard $20 Pro price as India emerges as its third-largest market with a user base that has tripled in just one year.
NVIDIA's new ModelExpress technology slashes AI model cold start times from 8 minutes to under 2 minutes by leveraging direct GPU-to-GPU transfers and a tiered fallback system, dramatically accelerating large model deployments in production environments.
OpenAI is betting $750 billion on AI infrastructure by 2030, including a $30 billion Georgia data center, while rival Anthropic faces user outages and compute shortages from its reliance on leased cloud resources, highlighting a growing divide in AI infrastructure strategy ahead of both companies' anticipated IPOs.
Intel reports explosive Q2 2026 revenue of $16.1 billion, a 25% surge fueled by a 59% jump in data center sales driven by AI demand, yet shares are falling Friday despite the massive earnings beat and strong Q3 guidance.