Microsoft commits a record-breaking $18 billion to Australia by 2029, supercharging AI supercomputing and cloud infrastructure in what marks the tech giant's largest-ever investment in the country.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 just seven weeks after GPT-5.4, achieving a recursive self-improvement milestone where the model helped build itself, while introducing enhanced agentic capabilities across 44 occupations and expanded safety protocols with zero latency impact.
Anker unveils the Thus processor, the world's first neural-net compute-in-memory AI audio chip, set to power next-gen Soundcore earbuds with eight MEMS microphones, two bone conduction sensors, and millions of parameters for dramatically improved noise cancellation — with the Liberty 5 Pro Max and Liberty 5 Pro debuting at Anker …
Vast Data secures a massive $1 billion Series F funding round backed by Nvidia, catapulting its valuation to $30 billion — more than triple its 2023 worth — as the AI infrastructure company surpasses $4 billion in cumulative bookings and $500 million in annual recurring revenue.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) surpasses 300 million monthly SDK downloads, cementing its role as the dominant integration standard for production AI agents while powering key Claude features and offering developers best practices to slash token usage by up to 85%.
Google Cloud unveils its eighth-generation TPUs at Next '26, delivering 121 exaflops of power in a single superpod, alongside a revolutionary Virgo Network fabric capable of connecting over one million TPUs into a single training cluster, plus major AI infrastructure upgrades including NVIDIA Vera Rubin-powered instances and an AI Inference …
Qwen's new 27B model stuns the AI world by outperforming a massive 397B model across all major coding benchmarks while running locally on consumer hardware at just 16.8GB, generating complex code at 25 tokens per second.
Vast Data secures $1 billion in Series F funding, tripling its valuation to $30 billion with backing from Nvidia and Fidelity, as its AI data infrastructure platform tackles critical memory and storage bottlenecks threatening to derail the generative AI revolution.
Unauthorized users breach Anthropic's powerful new Mythos AI model — a system the company warns could enable dangerous cyberattacks — on the very day of its announcement, with a private group reportedly accessing and using it regularly, though not yet for malicious cybersecurity purposes.
CADAM, a free open-source browser tool, is revolutionizing 3D modeling by instantly converting text descriptions and images into fully exportable 3D models using AI — no software installation required.