AWS launches Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed real-time web search tool that grounds AI agent responses in live, cited web data within a secured AWS environment, available now in US East at $7 per 1,000 queries.
Microsoft is expanding its Phi Silica AI model to Nvidia RTX 30-series and newer GPUs with at least 6GB of VRAM in an early developer preview, bringing local AI capabilities to more Windows users beyond Copilot+ PCs, though GPU-based execution lacks some NPU-exclusive features like prompt compression and speculative decoding.
Microsoft is overhauling Copilot's pricing to a usage-based model amid soaring costs from power users, while simultaneously exploring a fine-tuned, Azure-hosted version of DeepSeek V4 as a cheaper AI alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic, with a decision expected within weeks.
Enterprise AI costs are spiraling out of control as token bills from frontier models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini blow past budgets, forcing companies to adopt smarter model routing and hybrid compute strategies while vendors like Databricks race to offer cost-control solutions.
CoreWeave unveils 'Valvey' and 'Racky,' two groundbreaking infrastructure innovations designed to eliminate AI data center bottlenecks by revolutionizing coolant control and rack management for Nvidia's powerful 72-GPU Vera Rubin NVL72 system.
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork globally after record-breaking Fortune 500 adoption, offering enterprise AI automation that runs 30-40% cheaper than competitors with usage-based billing starting today.
IBM, NVIDIA, and Red Hat are spearheading DocLang, a groundbreaking open AI-native document format built to replace PDFs in enterprise AI pipelines, delivering up to 30x lower token costs while preserving semantic structure and slashing hallucination risks.
AWS WAF launches a groundbreaking AI traffic monetization tool that lets website owners charge AI bots for content access directly at the network edge, as AI bot traffic surges past 50% of web traffic — up over 300% year-over-year — with payments collected in stablecoins via Coinbase's x402 Facilitator at …
Google Cloud launches the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a vendor-neutral, open specification that standardizes how AI systems share metadata and curated knowledge using simple markdown files with YAML frontmatter, requiring no proprietary tools, with reference implementations and full code now available on GitHub.
SpaceX makes history with the largest IPO ever, surging 19% to close at $161 per share and hitting a $2 trillion valuation, driven by its $250 billion xAI acquisition and orbital AI data center plans, even as critics warn a massive AI valuation bubble may be forming in real time.