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EU Expands Digital Markets Act to Target Cloud and AI
European regulators will extend the Digital Markets Act to cloud services and AI, targeting Amazon, Microsoft, and major virtual assistant platforms.
Meta Reserves 1 GW of Space Solar to Power Its AI Data Centers
Meta signed deals with Overview Energy and Noon Energy for up to 1 GW of orbital solar and 100 GWh of long-duration storage to power AI infrastructure.
Musk Takes Stand vs Altman in $134B OpenAI Trial
Elon Musk testified for two days in a federal trial seeking $134B from OpenAI and the removal of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman from its board.
Google Signs Classified Pentagon AI Deal as 950 Employees Revolt
Google grants the DoD access to Gemini for 'any lawful' classified use after Anthropic refused — and 950 of its own engineers are publicly objecting.
UPDATE: Musk Takes Stand in OpenAI Trial, Predicts AGI Next Year
Day two of Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk testifies he founded OpenAI as a charity to counter Google and predicts AI smarter than any human within a year.
OpenAI Misses Revenue and User Targets, WSJ Report Rattles AI Stocks
WSJ says OpenAI fell short of internal revenue and ChatGPT user goals as it races toward an IPO. Oracle and AI chip stocks tumbled on the report.
Google DeepMind's Vision Banana Beats SAM 3 by Generating Pixels
DeepMind's new Vision Banana model proves image generators can outperform specialized vision systems on segmentation, depth, and surface normals.
Ineffable Raises $1.1B Seed: AlphaGo Creator Bets Against LLMs
AlphaGo creator David Silver emerges from stealth with $1.1B at $5.1B — a record European seed for an AI built without LLMs or human data.
Microsoft and OpenAI Rewrite Partnership: Multi-Cloud, AGI Clauses Out
Microsoft loses exclusive access to OpenAI as the two amend their deal: multi-cloud freedom, capped revenue share, and the AGI trigger clause is gone.
Moonshot Ships Kimi K2.6: 1T Parameters, 300-Agent Open-Weight Swarms
Moonshot AI's new Kimi K2.6 beats GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro and runs 300 parallel sub-agents — all under an open MIT-style license.
Musk v. Altman OpenAI Trial Begins in Oakland: What's at Stake
Elon Musk's $134 billion lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI heads to a federal jury today, with Satya Nadella expected to testify.
Sereact Raises $110M for Robots That Predict Their Own Actions
German robotics company Sereact lands $110M Series B led by Headline. Cortex 2.0 pairs a vision-language-action model with a world model for warehouse work.
xAI's Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 Tops τ-Voice Bench, Powers Starlink
xAI's new flagship voice model hits 67.3% on τ-voice Bench — nearly 2x Gemini and GPT Realtime — and is already running Starlink's phone support.
Perplexity Launches Computer for Enterprise to Rival Microsoft
Perplexity's Computer agent now ships to enterprises with Slack, Snowflake, and Salesforce connectors, taking aim at Microsoft Copilot.
Google to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic in Cash and Compute
Alphabet will commit up to $40B to AI rival Anthropic — making the search giant Anthropic's biggest financial backer and a primary compute supplier.
Meta Opens AI Business Assistant to All Advertisers Globally
Meta's AI assistant is now live for every advertiser across APAC, EMEA, LATAM, and the US — driving 12% lower cost per result in early use.
Microsoft Pours A$25 Billion Into Australia's AI Build-Out
Microsoft's largest-ever Australia investment expands Azure AI capacity 140%, trains 3 million workers, and ties into national cyber defense.
OpenAI Launches Workspace Agents in ChatGPT for Enterprise Teams
OpenAI's new Workspace Agents replace custom GPTs with shared, always-on agents that run across Slack, Salesforce, Notion, and Google Drive.
Sony's Project Ace Robot Beats Elite Humans at Table Tennis in Nature
Sony AI's autonomous table tennis system reacts in 20ms — ten times faster than elite humans — and just beat three pros in published Nature research.
Tesla Triples Capex to $25B for AI, Optimus, and Robotaxi in 2026
Tesla raised its 2026 capital spending plan to over $25B — nearly 3x last year — to fund Optimus production, an Austin chip fab, and AI compute.
xAI's Grok Build Coding Agent Nears Launch With Arena Mode
Elon Musk says Grok Build ships next week with parallel agents and a CLI, putting xAI directly against Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex.
DeepSeek V4 Preview Drops: 1M Context, 1.6T MoE, Fully Open-Source
DeepSeek's V4 preview lands with a 1M-token context window, a 1.6T mixture-of-experts model, and an open-source license — a direct shot at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Huawei's Ascend 950 'Supernode' Powers DeepSeek V4 Without Nvidia
Huawei trained DeepSeek V4 on Ascend 950 clusters linked by its Supernode fabric — the clearest sign yet China can train frontier models without Nvidia.
Meta's MTIA 400 Nears Deployment as Custom Inference Silicon Ramps
Meta's MTIA 400 inference chip is finishing testing for data center rollout — the second of four custom chips aimed at cutting its Nvidia dependency.