Recursive Superintelligence secures a massive $410 million multiyear compute deal with AWS to scale its self-improving AI systems, with CEO Richard Socher calling it likely the smallest such deal the company will ever sign, as tangible products are expected to launch as early as October 2026.
OpenAI is rolling out cheaper AI models and powerful agent tools, slashing costs by up to 80% after enterprise backlash over massive token bills, while pushing AI agents into the mainstream for its 990 million ChatGPT users.
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 …
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.
Vercel launches DeepsecBench, a new benchmark ranking AI models on cybersecurity vulnerability detection, revealing that while GPT-5.6 Sol tops the leaderboard, budget-friendly models like Grok 4.5 and Kimi K3 offer competitive security scanning at a fraction of the cost.
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.
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.
Reid Hoffman-backed AI startup Prentis is seeking $100M at a $1B valuation, claiming its Hive-32B model beats OpenAI and Anthropic rivals at 10x lower cost, while already securing up to $50M in contracts across healthcare, manufacturing, and retail just weeks after its April 2026 launch.