Chinese AI firm Z.AI unveils GLM-Image, a groundbreaking 16-billion parameter image generation model trained entirely on Huawei processors without US hardware, as customs authorities simultaneously block Nvidia H200 chips, demonstrating China's growing semiconductor independence and confidence in competing with American technology.
Warehouse robotics startup Mytra secures $120 million Series C funding and recruits former Tesla CFO Zach Kirkhorn to its board while expanding from 30 to 150 employees, as cofounder warns the robotics industry faces reality checks due to immature hardware despite AI hype.
OpenAI develops 'Sweetpea,' a revolutionary behind-the-ear wearable device featuring skin contact sensors and ultrasonic transmitters that can listen and sense beyond traditional audio capabilities, with Foxconn manufacturing planned for Vietnam indicating serious consumer-scale ambitions.
DeepSeek introduces revolutionary 'Engram' memory technique that bypasses GPU constraints to dramatically expand AI model parameters, potentially helping China overcome hardware limitations while improving performance on industry benchmarks.
Chamber launches revolutionary AI platform that automatically optimizes enterprise GPU usage, promising to eliminate $240 billion in annual waste from idle computing power while boosting workload capacity by 50% through real-time resource orchestration.
The $699 Humane Ai Pin receives devastating reviews as the futuristic wearable overheats within minutes, hallucinates false information, fails at basic functions like alarms, and becomes unreadable in sunlight, earning dismal 4-5/10 ratings from major tech publications who warn consumers to avoid the unfinished product.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares Apple the company's primary long-term competitor, asserting that future AI battles will be won through devices rather than software alone, signaling a strategic shift toward hardware integration for market dominance.
Meta launches Meta Compute initiative to build tens of gigawatts of AI infrastructure this decade under former Google executive leadership, marking a massive strategic push for competitive advantage amid growing scrutiny of data center construction.
Meta strikes massive nuclear energy deals with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to generate 6.6 gigawatts of clean power by 2035, becoming one of America's largest corporate nuclear buyers while extending existing plant operations and developing advanced reactor technology to fuel its AI infrastructure expansion.
NVIDIA researchers unveil TTT-E2E, a revolutionary AI method that compresses million-token contexts into model weights, delivering 35x faster processing speeds for massive datasets while maintaining constant inference times regardless of context length.