A powerful new open-source inference engine called h3.c now enables native AI video generation on Apple Silicon Macs, slashing render times nearly in half using Metal GPU acceleration and cutting memory usage from 36.5 GiB to just 2 GiB.
Meta launches Muse Glimmer, a powerful 30-billion parameter open-weight AI model that runs locally on consumer hardware, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg publishes a sweeping manifesto warning against AI power concentration — even as critics question whether Meta itself represents exactly that.
OpenAI launches a two-tier Daybreak cybersecurity program featuring GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized AI model completing 95% of advanced security requests — compared to just 1.5% for standard models — already uncovering real Chrome vulnerabilities, with strict identity verification and hardware security key requirements to prevent misuse.
Meta Superintelligence Labs launches Muse Glimmer, a powerful 30-billion-parameter open-source AI model that runs locally on consumer devices like MacBooks and PCs, supporting over 100 languages, multimodal input, and advanced agentic workflows — all under 20GB of memory.
Pathway CEO Zuzanna Stamirowska declares large language models fundamentally broken due to architectural limits and unveils Dragon Hatchling, a new AI system promising native memory, continual learning, and abstract reasoning at lower compute costs.
The US government is investigating a loophole allowing Chinese AI firms to bypass export restrictions by renting computing power hosted in third-party countries to access advanced Nvidia chips, following a series of Chinese AI breakthroughs that reveal the limits of Washington's current controls.
OpenAI moves to dismiss Apple's trade secret lawsuit, defending its employees' actions as standard industry recruiting practices and calling Apple's theft allegations completely meritless.
Xiaomi open-sources its robotics AI foundation model, Xiaomi-Robotics-1, trained on over 100,000 hours of data, offering a rare end-to-end blueprint in a proprietary-dominated field, but missing key details like model architecture and parameter count raise serious questions about its real-world utility.
Anthropic is building a custom AI chip design team to co-design hardware and models, as surging demand for Claude outpaces existing infrastructure partnerships with AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD, with Samsung being scouted as a potential manufacturing partner.
SpaceX shares fall after the company reveals a staggering $28.5 billion in AI capital expenditures in the first half of 2026, more than four times last year's spending, alarming investors despite strong inaugural earnings that beat Wall Street expectations.