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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.
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.5 With 1M Context and Doubled API Pricing
GPT-5.5 brings sharper coding, a 1M-token context, and a price tag twice as high as GPT-5.4 — OpenAI is betting intelligence gains outrun the cost.
Siemens and NVIDIA Turn Erlangen Into the AI Factory Blueprint
Hannover Messe demos showed a Siemens factory cutting ventilation energy 70% with AI-driven digital twins — the template for fully autonomous manufacturing.
Musk's xAI Held Talks With Mistral and Cursor on Three-Way Tie-Up
Business Insider says xAI explored a partnership with Mistral and Cursor to challenge Anthropic and OpenAI in AI coding — Musk's most direct move yet.
Google Launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Replacing Vertex AI
Google's new Gemini Enterprise platform gives every AI agent a cryptographic ID, ships 200+ models, and takes direct aim at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Google Splits TPUs in Two: Meet TPU 8t and 8i, Built for the Agent Era
Google's 8th-gen TPUs split training and inference into specialized chips — TPU 8t hits 2.8x Ironwood's speed, TPU 8i triples SRAM for faster agents.
Google Unveils TPU 8t and 8i: Two Chips for the Agentic Era
Google's 8th-gen TPUs split training and inference into two dedicated chips — 2.8x faster training and 80% better inference over Ironwood.
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.5: The Agent That Actually Operates Your Computer
GPT-5.5 launched Thursday with 78.7% on OSWorld, a 1M-token context window, and double the API price of GPT-5.4. Here's what's new.
OpenAI Open-Sources Privacy Filter for On-Device PII Masking
OpenAI's new Privacy Filter is an open-weight model that redacts PII locally before data ever leaves your machine — Apache 2.0, runs on a laptop.