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Meta's open-weight U-turn: Muse Glimmer targets Llama's old market
A 30-billion-parameter model that runs on a single GPU marks Meta's return to open weights and a fresh challenge to Qwen and Gemma.
Anthropic bets $81 billion on compute it doesn't yet own
A six-month-old start-up just landed a $10 billion Anthropic contract, capping a 60-day, $71 billion financing spree built entirely off balance sheet.
OpenAI cuts ChatGPT errors 68% and gives free users unlimited Luna
The update collapses fast and reasoning modes into one model and removes the paywall on unlimited chats, pressuring rivals on both quality and price.
Musk's Terafab lands $16.8bn first phase, far below earlier $55bn talk
Tesla and SpaceX confirmed a Texas chip campus that could eventually run to $119 billion, but the opening commitment is a fraction of what county filings once suggested.
Jeff Dean quits Google after 27 years to chase automated science
Discovery Loop pulls four of Google's most senior AI architects into a new venture Google itself is funding.
Google strips Hassabis of CEO role as Gemini leadership empties out
Alphabet shares fell more than 5% after Koray Kavukcuoglu took charge of Gemini on the same day four senior researchers quit to start a rival.
Apple seeks injunction to slow OpenAI's hardware push before 1 October hearing
Apple wants a federal judge to freeze OpenAI's alleged use of trade secrets just as its first consumer device nears 2027 launch.
DeepSeek's V4-Flash runs 100x cheaper than Claude Fable 5
Artificial Analysis finds the Chinese model averages 3 cents per benchmark test against $3.15 for Anthropic's flagship, sharpening the price war over routine AI work.
The AI Act is live, and nobody knows who checks first
Transparency rules and 3%-of-turnover fines took effect on 2 August. Enforcement is split across 27 national authorities plus two EU bodies. Good luck planning against that.
Google bets Gemini becomes the default brains for humanoid robots
DeepMind's new model family lets one checkpoint drive different robot bodies, aiming to undercut hardware-makers who are building their own AI in-house.
Anthropic's own cyber tests leak Claude onto live systems
A misconfigured vendor environment let Claude models reach real databases and publish malicious code, pressuring labs to prove their safety testing is itself safe.
An 80% cut three weeks after launch isn't generosity. It's a floor being set by DeepSeek
OpenAI says efficiency. The calendar says Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash and a Chinese model at fourteen cents.
Claude finds cracks in HAWK and AES, and cryptography gets an AI-shaped cost problem
Anthropic said its Claude Mythos model cut the effective key size of a post-quantum signature scheme in half and sped up an AES attack by up to 800 times, each for about $100,000.
Frontier labs' own staff ask Washington to help throttle AI progress
More than 1,100 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta want pacing tools built before automation of AI research, not after.
Kimi K3 is 'open' the way a container ship is portable
2.8 trillion parameters, a custom licence, and a 64-accelerator minimum. The weights are public. The capability is not.
Chinese open models cut US firms' AI bills in half
Coinbase, DoorDash and Airbnb are routing routine AI work to Moonshot, Z.ai and DeepSeek, squeezing the margins Anthropic and OpenAI charge for commodity work.
OpenAI opens ChatGPT Health to all US users as scrutiny mounts
The free-tier expansion pushes health queries to 300 million a week just as a lawsuit tests OpenAI's medical-safety claims.
Opus 5 halves Anthropic's top-tier price while beating Fable 5 on most tests
Anthropic's fourth model in under two months undercuts its own flagship on cost and still edges it on 8 of 13 benchmarks.
Google Cloud's 82% surge funds an $811 billion AI spending bet
Alphabet's backlog swells to $514 billion as Gemini's reach and capital commitments both jump.
AMD didn't buy compute demand. It bought someone to fix ROCm
Up to $5bn into Anthropic, two gigawatts of MI450, and a clause putting Claude to work on AMD's software stack. Guess which part AMD actually needed.
Google's silicon bet could cut Gemini serving costs six-fold by 2028
A chip reportedly baking Gemini's architecture into silicon aims to ease Google's compute crunch and undercut OpenAI and Anthropic on price.
Anthropic's $1.5bn book payout sets a price on pirated AI training data
A judge's final approval of the largest copyright settlement in US history hands authors roughly $3,000 a work and leaves rivals exposed.
Microsoft preps cheaper AI rival to Anthropic's Mythos security tool
Project Perception routes tasks across Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic models to undercut Mythos on price for vulnerability hunting.
Apple's brief pass of Nvidia exposes a rotation away from chip risk
A single trading day showed investors trimming Nvidia exposure over AI valuation worries and rewarding Apple's lighter capital spending.