Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Google has agreed to let the U.S. Department of Defense use its AI on classified networks for essentially all lawful purposes — terms Anthropic refused over concerns about domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
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NVIDIA's new 30B-A3B mixture-of-experts model unifies vision, audio, and language into a single open system, delivering up to nine times the throughput of comparable open omni models for AI agents.
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The startup behind autonomous AI software engineer Devin is negotiating a new round at a $25B valuation, up from $10.2B in September, as enterprise demand for agentic coding accelerates.
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A renegotiated agreement ends Microsoft's exclusive grip on OpenAI's products through 2032, lets OpenAI ship to AWS, and removes the legal cloud hanging over its $50 billion Amazon deal.
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Read more →Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaZero architect David Silver, has closed Europe's largest-ever seed round at a $5.1B valuation to pursue a reinforcement-learning superlearner.
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Google Cloud locks in another fast-rising frontier lab with a single-digit-billion-dollar agreement covering Nvidia GB300 GPUs and reinforcement-learning workloads.
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Read more →Meta will deploy hundreds of thousands of Amazon Graviton CPUs over at least three years, joining AWS's top five Graviton customers and broadening AI compute beyond Nvidia GPUs.
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Google commits $10 billion now and up to $30 billion more in milestone-based funding, on top of a five-gigawatt cloud compute deal — its biggest bet yet on Anthropic.
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Tufts University researchers combined neural networks with symbolic reasoning to train AI systems in 34 minutes instead of 36 hours, using just 1% of the energy — while jumping accuracy from 34% to 95%.
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Read more →University of Cambridge researchers have engineered a hafnium oxide memristor that mimics how neurons process and store information simultaneously, operating at one-millionth the power of conventional chips.
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Sony AI's autonomous robot has beaten elite and professional table tennis players under official ITTF regulations — the first robot to reach expert-level competitive performance in a physically demanding sport.
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OpenAI's GPT-5.5, codenamed "Spud," brings 82.7% Terminal-Bench 2.0 performance and autonomous multi-step task execution — a step toward OpenAI's unified AI super app.
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Read more →DeepSeek's V4-Pro and V4-Flash arrive with 1.6 trillion parameters, a 1M-token context window, and Apache 2.0 licensing — matching near-frontier performance at 21x less cost than Claude Opus 4.7.
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Read more →New legislation targets foreign entities using distillation attacks and espionage to replicate US AI models, backed by a House Select Committee report detailing China's systematic campaign to acquire frontier AI capabilities.
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Sundar Pichai revealed at Cloud Next 2026 that three-quarters of Google's new code is now AI-generated, up from 30% a year ago — with engineers shifting from authors to reviewers.
Google Blog / Cloud Next 2026
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Anthropic's implied valuation on secondary markets has reached $1 trillion — overtaking OpenAI on Forge Global — fueled by 233% revenue growth in a single quarter driven by Claude Code adoption.
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Deezer reports 75,000 AI-generated tracks flood its platform every day — 44% of all new music — yet 85% of the streams these tracks receive are flagged as fraudulent and demonetized.
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Read more →Jeff Bezos and co-CEO Vikram Bajaj are finalizing a $10 billion funding round for Project Prometheus at a $38 billion valuation — a lab training AI on real-world physics, engineering, and robotics data.
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Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro hits a verified 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark — more than double its predecessor — and arrives with a 2-million-token context window, multi-step agentic coding, and support across Gemini API, Vertex AI, and NotebookLM.
Meta Superintelligence Labs unveils Muse Spark, a fast multimodal model that deploys parallel AI subagents, analyzes medical images, generates functional websites, and surfaces social-powered shopping recommendations.
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Amazon deepens its AI bet with a new $25 billion stake in Anthropic and a $100 billion AWS cloud commitment — mirroring an identical deal it struck with OpenAI just two months prior.
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Read more →xAI has launched Grok 4.3 in beta with native video processing, PDF and spreadsheet generation, and tighter Grok Computer integration — behind a $300/month SuperGrok Heavy paywall ahead of a broader May rollout.
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Global venture investment hit $300 billion in Q1 2026, with AI capturing 80% of all capital deployed. Four of the five largest venture rounds in history — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo — all closed in the same 90-day window.
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Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.6, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model capable of coordinating 300 parallel sub-agents across 4,000 steps — available on Hugging Face under a Modified MIT License.
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