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Models6h ago

Tencent launches Hy4 with vision and computer use

The low-cost model works across GUI and CLI tasks, while open weights and the full system card are still promised rather than available.

Models38 min ago

Pruna turns MiniMax H3 into a 5x faster open-weight image model

P-H3-Image generates and edits 2–16 MP images, while its smallest build is a 20 GB download and uses about 21 GB of VRAM at 8 MP.

Funding39 min ago

Google invests 15 billion dollars in Malaysian data centers

The two-year expansion adds new computing campuses, more than 1 GW of clean-energy capacity and training programs for 800,000 people.

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AMD’s AI data-center revenue nearly doubles to $8.5 billion

Record Instinct GPU and EPYC CPU sales lifted total revenue to $13.4 billion, while AMD guided to about $17 billion next quarter.

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OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer to bring code storage into Codex

The startup’s Git infrastructure is already used by Codex, giving OpenAI more control over where agent-written software is stored and shipped.

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Canva restructures 1,271 roles as growth slows and AI costs rise

The overhaul affects 22% of staff and combines layoffs with role changes and relocations as the design platform faces higher model costs and new competition.

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Oracle reportedly cancels $7B Tencent AI chip lease after US pressure

The five-year deal would have provided access to about 100,000 advanced chips in Southeast Asia; none of the companies has confirmed the cancellation.

Models

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OpenRouter offers a free 1M-context multimodal model for agent work

Pika releases open-weight video model with synchronized audio

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Mistral opens its 1-trillion-parameter model for coding and cyber defense

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DeepSeek and Moonshot reportedly trained new models on GPT-6 Astra outputs

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Funding

fal raises $1.65B and reportedly doubles its valuation to $16B

Meta raises 15 billion dollars in bonds to fund its AI buildout

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OpenAI cuts its funding target to 20 billion dollars

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Nvidia invests $1 billion in Naver and becomes its third-largest shareholder

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Research

A Railway engineer’s AI agents reached into a rival cloud

Anthropic open-sources proofs that identify which AI model answered

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AI agents can now steer a SETI telescope and search its data in real time

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GLM 5.3 built working Firefox exploits for about $1,000 each

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Tools

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Apple opens Siri AI to actions from any app

OpenAI moves ChatGPT and Codex into physical engineering

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Anthropic launches Claude Duet, an agent that works while you are away

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Subvocal opens preorders for glasses that turn silent speech into text

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Policy

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Google makes AI optional for schools — but not inside Search

Claude Code reportedly ran inside a Pentagon network for two months

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ChatGPT will end violent conversations and restrict weapon information for teens

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OpenAI will honor one robots.txt signal for AI training preferences

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Sierra passes $400M in annual recurring revenue

The enterprise AI agent startup says it added more than $150 million in ARR in one quarter and now works with almost half of the Fortune 50.

Cohere targets C$7 billion round as Canada buys an AI stake

The Series E has only reached its initial close; its target would value Cohere at C$35.7 billion, while Ottawa may invest up to C$1.6 billion.

Anthropic reportedly supplied 34.5% of SpaceX’s quarterly revenue

SpaceX’s filing confirms that an unnamed AI-compute customer became its largest client; Bloomberg identifies that customer as Anthropic.

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CrowdStrike: China-linked VAPOR PANDA used AI agents against 200 organizations

The company confirmed post-exploitation at nine organizations; the larger figure describes targets, not successful breaches.

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Claude Enterprise can now analyze employee chats in smart reports

Administrators can map team workflows, costs and failed sessions from transcript samples, with attribution disabled by default and permanent topic restrictions.

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Malicious Claude Code extension in Cursor exposed up to 5,000 users

A tampered marketplace package attempted to install a persistent SSH backdoor; Cursor says Anthropic did not create it.

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Japan faces an AI-assisted cyberattack wave with at least 81 incidents

A government energy-market website and a foreign-exchange platform are among the latest targets as AI tools lower the barrier for attackers.

Wabi raises $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation for personal AI

The startup from Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda is building a shared assistant that creates mini-apps and coordinates everyday life.

Tools5d ago

Roblox says AI tools now help build more than 80% of its top games

Two nearly AI-made titles reached the platform’s top 20, while the prompt-to-game tool Build has already produced more than 70,000 published games.

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Factory makes coding agents call hundreds of tools from one script

Droid 1.0 turns programmatic tool calling on by default and claims better Terminal-Bench results at lower cost.

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Cursor marketplace served a malicious Claude Code extension to up to 5,000 users

The modified package added an SSH backdoor and persistence; simply uninstalling it is not enough.

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Cartesia launches a complete voice-agent platform for enterprise calls

Managed Agents combines speech models, reasoning and telephony, and leads two independent benchmarks at launch.