NVIDIA is hand-delivering its first custom CPU, Vera, to top AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI, featuring 88 custom Olympus cores and 50% faster per-core performance designed for agentic AI workloads, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure set to deploy hundreds of thousands of units at hyperscale starting in 2026.
Google I/O 2026 kicks off with massive announcements including Gemini 4, AI-powered glasses built with Warby Parker featuring maps and real-time translation, and Project Aura, a spatial computing device developed with XREAL, signaling Google's boldest push yet into AI hardware and agents.
A new open-source CLI tool called 'whichllm' instantly scans your hardware and recommends the best local AI models you can actually run, ranked by real benchmark data from top leaderboards with a single command.
Unsloth Studio launches in beta, enabling users to train over 500 open-source AI models locally on Windows, Linux, and macOS up to 2x faster while using 70% less VRAM, with features including reinforcement learning, multi-GPU support, and API inference compatibility with tools like Claude Code.
A new 1B parameter AI model called HRM-Text is making foundation model pretraining accessible to nearly anyone, requiring up to 900x less data and 600x less compute than traditional methods, bringing full pretraining costs down to roughly $1000 using a hierarchical recurrent architecture with strong benchmark performance across GSM8k, MATH, …
OpenAI and Dell Technologies are partnering to bring Codex, now used by over 4 million weekly developers, into secure hybrid and on-premises enterprise environments through integration with Dell's AI infrastructure platforms.
NVlabs launches SANA, a groundbreaking open-source AI framework capable of generating stunning 4K images and video up to 100 times faster than competitors like Flux-12B, with multiple model variants, flexible deployment options including low-VRAM laptop support, and a fully open-sourced codebase under the Apache 2.0 license.
OpenAI quietly releases two powerful open-weight AI models, GPT-OSS-120B and GPT-OSS-20B, just days before GPT-5 launches, offering state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — with the smaller model running on a standard laptop with just 16GB of RAM.
Nvidia is partnering with Ineffable Intelligence, the $1.1 billion-backed AI startup founded by DeepMind reinforcement learning pioneer David Silver, to co-develop AI systems that learn through trial and error using Nvidia's latest Grace Blackwell chips — pushing beyond conventional AI trained on human data toward systems that continuously discover new …
OpenAI is threatening legal action against Apple, alleging the tech giant deliberately buried its ChatGPT integration since June 2024, costing OpenAI significant subscribers and revenue, while Apple cites privacy concerns amid growing tensions between the two companies.