Meta is set to begin production of its custom AI chips in September, developed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC, as the tech giant moves to reduce its dependence on Nvidia GPUs while projecting up to $145 billion in capital expenditures this year.
OpenAI retracts its support for SWE-Bench Pro after an internal audit uncovers that nearly 30% of the coding benchmark's 731 tasks are broken due to flawed tests and misleading prompts, prompting a call for new, developer-built benchmarks.
AI chip startup SambaNova surges to an $11 billion valuation after raising $1 billion led by General Atlantic, with JPMorgan Chase deploying its systems and a U.S. IPO targeted for 2027 as it challenges Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market.
Chinese AI models like DeepSeek are surging past 30% U.S. market share as businesses abandon OpenAI and Anthropic for alternatives that are up to 90% cheaper and rapidly closing the performance gap with American frontier models.
DeepSeek is racing to develop its own AI chips after spending a year recruiting engineers and meeting with hardware partners, aiming to break free from dependence on both Nvidia and Huawei as Chinese and American AI giants alike pursue custom silicon for greater control over their technology.
A new study reveals that using JSON mode for AI agents causes smaller models to fail up to 60% of the time and costs up to 11x more than traditional CLI arguments due to shell escaping failures, with developers urged to avoid rewriting CLIs for agents until running measurable experiments.
Shepherd launches an alpha runtime that makes AI agent executions reversible using Git-like forking, delivering 5x faster copy-on-write performance than Docker commit, 95% KV-cache reuse on replay, and OS-level sandboxed permissions that block unauthorized writes before they happen.
Guidance, an open-source Python library with over 21,600 GitHub stars, gives developers precise control over AI model outputs using regex, context-free grammars, and JSON schema validation, while boosting efficiency by reducing unnecessary model processing across backends like OpenAI and llama.cpp.
European AI startup UMA unveils a humanoid robot powered by Real-Time Learning architecture that watches and learns from human demonstrations, positioning Europe as a serious contender in the global robotics race against the US and China.
China is weighing a major policy reversal by restricting foreign access to its most advanced AI models, holding talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, as U.S.-China AI tensions escalate with accusations of illegal model distillation and retaliatory bans on American AI tools.