Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue warns that anti-open-source lobbying in the US risks handing AI dominance to a handful of corporations, as the global developer base is projected to surge from millions to 100 million builders and AI agents may soon outnumber human users on the platform.
DeepSeek unleashes two groundbreaking AI models — DeepSeek-V4-Pro and V4-Flash — featuring over 1 trillion parameters and record-breaking low prices, with V4-Flash undercutting OpenAI's cheapest model at just $0.14 per million tokens, powered by dramatic efficiency gains that slash compute costs to a fraction of its predecessor.
xAI launches Grok 4.3 with ultra-low API pricing, a 1M-token context window, and rapid voice cloning, topping legal and financial benchmarks, but critics slam its coding and math weaknesses and report erratic 'narcolepsy' behavior in autonomous tasks.
TALOS-V2 brings AI inference to FPGA hardware, running Karpathy's microGPT at a blazing 50,000 tokens per second on a DE1-SoC Cyclone V board using fixed-point arithmetic and SystemVerilog RTL, complete with real-time controls and token output on onboard displays.
The Pentagon signs AI deployment deals with Google, OpenAI, and five other tech giants for classified military networks while keeping Anthropic blacklisted as a supply chain risk, though Anthropic's advanced Mythos AI model raises separate national security concerns that could open the door to a potential future deal.
A Chinese court rules that replacing a worker with AI is not legal grounds for termination, upholding a wrongful dismissal case for a Hangzhou tech worker who faced a 40% pay cut, setting a landmark precedent for labor rights amid rising AI adoption across industries.
OpenClaw, a self-hosted AI agent platform, rockets to 250,000 GitHub stars in just 60 days, overtaking React as GitHub's most-starred project while NVIDIA rushes to address security vulnerabilities by launching NemoClaw, a hardened reference implementation, as autonomous long-running agents drive a 1,000x surge in inference demand and reshape industries from …
Oracle is simultaneously navigating a massive banking crisis tied to a $300 billion AI data center deal with OpenAI while slashing up to 30,000 jobs, as analysts warn the tech giant may need over $100 billion in additional financing by 2028 amid mounting debt concerns.
Anthropic's Claude AI is now integrated into Autodesk Fusion, allowing engineers and creators to build 3D models using simple natural language prompts, bridging the gap between ideas and manufacturable designs.
Hundreds pack a New York City gallery for the 'AI Psychosis Summit,' a deliberately non-corporate, Diet Coke-fueled celebration of AI creativity featuring art, vibe-coded apps, and quirky projects like a subway-map jazz generator, organized by a scrappy group of online friends aiming to inject culture and humor into the AI …