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The Register: Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX racks delivered 3,400 tokens per second in an Artificial Analysis benchmark running Gemma 4 31B with a 100,000-token input sequence — Nvidia's $20 billion bet

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia says its inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production and Nebius has signed on as the first customer, and SpaceX will deploy Vera CPUs — Chipmaker

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute — Following several

Mark Anderson / Bloomberg: Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek — Chinese hack

Ina Fried / Axios: Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang — Prominent AI researcher Lu

Dan Primack / Axios: Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~200M led by 8VC, after raising 400M in June — Generalist has quiet

Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance is merging coding platform Trae and agent-building tool Coze into Doubao, and plans to launch Doubao Work to compete with Tencent's WorkBuddy — ByteDance Ltd. is consolid

Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to 3B at a 12B+ valuation; its revenue this year is estimated to reach 1.5B+ — Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider bac

Reuters: Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export AI servers to China — Taiwan prosecutors said on Monday they had i

Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times: Ukraine says Russia used an Nvidia Jetson Orin computing module in its fully autonomous AI-guided drones; Nvidia says they're widely available on resale markets — Th

New York Times: Ukrainian officials say an AI-guided, fully autonomous Russian drone killed three Ukrainians in a strike on a gas station in the city of Zaporizhzhia — An attack by what Ukrainian offi

Natasha Singer / New York Times: A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools — One

Reuters: Alibaba plans to raise ~10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close — China's Alibaba (9988.HK) on Su

George Hammond / Financial Times: Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 — AI lab's

Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade “a lot of liberty for safety” — OpenAI CEO

Katie Roof / Business Insider: Sources: Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value it at 13B+, up from 4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders' interest — The AI indu

The Information: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity's new equity round valuing it at 30B+; Nvidia considered a tech licensing deal and hiring some of its staff — Nvidia is discussing

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development —

Financial Times: Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come — Beijing policymakers ha

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings — Inherent, a L

Rohail Saleem / Wccftech: Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter — When an unk

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Rundoo, a provider of AI-powered business operations software for independent supply stores, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures — Rundoo Inc., the creator of

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi — A sweeping agreeme

Bloomberg: Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027 — Some of Nvidia Corp.'s bigge

SemiAnalysis: With each successive era of AI, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model — Comparing open vs. closed models

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips — Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a

Claude: Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools — No items found. — Reading time —

Bloomberg: DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests — DeepSeek unveiled an experim

Rashika Singh / Reuters: Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has made a m

Terry Chen / NVIDIA Technical Blog: Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels — The research

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to 4/1M input tokens and 20/1M output tokens — OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the pr

Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks — SAN FRANC

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition — Nvidia Corp. is i

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Space data center startup Starcloud raised a 250M extension, at a 2.3B valuation, to its March 170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested 25M — Starcloud, a startup developing s

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers — Every day t

Julia Hornstein / The Information: Anthropic-backed enterprise AI venture Ode is acquiring four-year-old AI consultancy Casper for an undisclosed fee; Ode has 100+ staff after buying Fractional — A jo

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Binance launches Agent OS, a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf; users set limits on AI agents' access and trades — Binance, t

Marcela Ayres / Reuters: Brazil announces ~444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek — Brazil's government

William Langley / Financial Times: China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns — Co

Bloomberg: London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others — Callosum, a startup that makes s

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI rolls out an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT read, search, and analyze chats, prepare and send messages, and more — Well, this seems interesting.

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using internally over the past three years, in the US; Router is free to use for the rest of 2026 — Corporate expen

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from 100M to 500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at 150M-200M — The near-bottoml

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: Anthropic plans a safety system this year that still requires enterprises to retain data for 30 days but lets them do so on their own cloud systems — Anthropic PBC pla

Bloomberg: Sources: Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise 60B+ in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies — Broadcom Inc. is in talks with a

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules — Nvidia