Nvidia approaches a $2-3 billion acquisition of struggling Israeli AI startup AI21 Labs, paying an extraordinary $10-15 million per employee to secure 200 specialized AI workers in what amounts to the tech industry's most expensive talent grab amid fierce competition for artificial intelligence expertise.
Nvidia licenses Groq's AI inference technology in major partnership deal, with Groq founder Jonathan Ross and key team members joining Nvidia to scale the technology globally while Groq continues independent operations under new CEO Simon Edwards.
AI companies face mounting pressure to slash energy consumption as data centers devour gigawatts of power compared to the human brain's mere 20 watts, while DeepSeek's $6 million breakthrough model challenges trillion-dollar industry spending amid growing concerns over electric grid strain from $61 billion in infrastructure deals.
Scientists successfully simulate an entire mouse brain with 10 million digital neurons on Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, creating a breakthrough that could unlock consciousness mysteries and revolutionize brain disease research including Alzheimer's and epilepsy studies.
Revolutionary AI tool BMVision slashes kidney cancer detection time by up to 52% while boosting diagnostic accuracy by over 6%, enabling radiologists to catch suspicious lesions earlier during routine CT scans and potentially save more lives through faster, more precise diagnosis.
Lemon Slice secures $10.5 million in seed funding to launch its groundbreaking 20-billion-parameter AI model that transforms single photos into real-time digital avatars capable of livestreaming at 20 fps, challenging industry giants like D-ID and HeyGen in the rapidly expanding digital avatar market.
OpenAI launches ambitious 'Superalignment' program targeting 2027 to solve AI safety crisis by creating human-level automated researchers that can align superintelligent systems with human values, though controversies remain over whose values should guide AI and who should make these critical decisions.
Tiiny AI launches the Guinness World Record-verified smallest personal AI supercomputer that runs 120-billion-parameter language models completely offline in a pocket-sized device weighing just 300 grams, delivering GPT-4o level intelligence with total privacy and consuming only 65W of power.
MIT researchers develop a bumblebee-sized robot weighing under 1 gram that flaps its wings 330 times per second, performs 10 consecutive somersaults in 11 seconds using AI-powered flight control, and could revolutionize search-and-rescue operations by navigating tight spaces within the next decade.
Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo, revolutionary language models that process raw UTF-8 bytes directly without tokenizers, offering superior multilingual capabilities and handling of text errors through innovative 'bytefying' technology that transforms existing models cost-effectively.