Meta AI launches Muse Code in beta, a terminal-based coding agent powered by the new Muse Spark 1.2 model that can autonomously plan, write, and validate code across large repositories, with benchmark tests showing it successfully optimizes GPU kernels over 1,000+ tool calls for significant performance gains on NVIDIA Hopper …
Anthropic signs a massive $10 billion, six-year cloud compute deal with AI startup Volta to build a 133-megawatt data center in Norway powered by Nvidia's cutting-edge Vera Rubin chips, as the AI company aggressively expands its infrastructure amid fierce industry competition.
Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) launch as a powerful new class of multimodal AI supporting text, vision, and audio, optimized for fast on-device and edge deployment across major inference runtimes with flexible formats including GGUF, MLX, and ONNX.
Mistral launches Shieldstral, a compact 3-billion-parameter AI safety model that accepts natural language policies at inference time, outperforms models seven times its size including OpenAI's GPT-OSS-Safeguard, runs on a 16GB GPU, and is released open-weight under Apache 2.0.
Apple seeks a preliminary injunction against OpenAI over alleged stolen trade secrets involving two former employees, but OpenAI fights back by releasing text messages and emails it claims prove its innocence, as the high-stakes legal battle threatens to delay OpenAI's AI hardware launch and shake investor confidence ahead of its …
Anthropic signs a massive $10 billion computing deal with Nvidia-backed startup Volta Infra Holdings to secure critical data center capacity as demand for its Claude AI surges.
Top VC firms including Sequoia, a16z, and Khosla Ventures are pouring billions into nuclear power and critical minerals as AI's explosive energy demands outpace existing infrastructure, with Valar Atomics raising $1 billion for small modular reactors and Mariana Minerals securing $310 million for mining operations.
AMD's MI355X GPUs are outperforming NVIDIA's B200 on the massive 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 AI model, delivering 3.8× higher throughput per node at roughly 2.4× lower cost, thanks to key engineering fixes including speculative decoding patches and attention head optimizations that cut prefill times by up to 3×.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot is leveraging a cluster of 20,000 Nvidia chips through an Alibaba deal to power its Kimi AI models, including the newly launched open-source Kimi K3, which rivals OpenAI and Anthropic on key benchmarks, underscoring China's continued reliance on Western semiconductors to fuel its booming AI race.
China's Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a free open-weight model ranking third globally on Artificial Analysis's AI index, surpassing DeepSeek and Meta's Llama, offering governments and businesses a powerful alternative to costly U.S. AI software — though trust concerns and chip dependency on American hardware may limit widespread adoption.