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As enterprises pivot from AI experimentation to production deployment, AI storage infrastructure is emerging as the critical bottleneck determining whether massive chip investments deliver real return

Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek today released a new series of open-source large language models. V4, as the algorithm family is called, comprises two LLMs on launch. There’s the fl

Bloomberg: DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months — DeepSeek rolled out previe

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two preview models, DeepSeek-V

DeepSeek-V4 is an advanced language model featuring a million-token context window that enables practical agentic applications beyond simple retrieval. The model demonstrates improved efficiency and u

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: DeepSeek V4 Pro costs 1.74/1M input tokens and 3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs 0.14/1M and 0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class —

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.6T total parameters, its largest model by the metric, and V4 Flash has 284B parameters; both models have a context window of 1M tokens —

As AI accelerates enterprise transformation, it is simultaneously widening the attack surface organizations must defend — and compressing the time defenders have to respond. The convergence of geopoli

Raphael Satter / Reuters: Diplomatic cable: US State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to what it says are efforts by Chinese companies to steal IP from US AI labs — The U.S. Sta

Elon Musk cofounded OpenAI, and then flounced off in a huff when he wasn't anointed CEO, leaving Sam Altman as the last power-hungry man standing. Now, Musk is back with a lawsuit, and a trial is sche

Europe authorized Moderna's combination mRNA flu-COVID vaccine before the United States did. This dual-purpose vaccine addresses two respiratory viruses in a single shot. The European Commission grant

The Economist: Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete — It wasn't long after blue j

Emma Dunkley / Financial Times: EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions — Gen Z and mi

The FCC has expanded its foreign-made router ban to also cover consumer Wi-Fi hotspots and LTE/5G home-internet devices, though existing products and phones with hotspot features are not affected. Cel

Joe Wertz / Bloomberg: France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting — France's foreca

When a company such as Google LLP demonstrates leadership in large-scale data systems, advantages can begin to accrue in areas not readily apparent from the keynote speeches and press releases. One of

Google-parent Alphabet will invest up to 40 billion in Anthropic, deepening its partnership with the AI startup . The deal consists of 10 billion in immediate cash at a 350 billion valuation, with an

Vercel announced the availability of GPT-5.5 through its AI Gateway service, expanding the model options developers can access through the platform. This integration allows developers to leverage Open

I don’t need to tell you that AI is everywhere. Or that it is being used, increasingly, in hospitals. Doctors are using AI to help them with notetaking. AI-based tools are trawling through patient rec

Mimi Billing / Sifted: Helsinki-based Verda, formerly Datacrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised €100M in debt and equity — The Finnish cloud provider, formerly known

In the first 24 hours of the assault on Iran, the US military struck more than 1,000 targets, nearly double the scale of the 'shock and awe' attack on Iraq over two decades ago. This acceleration was

Daniel Ren / South China Morning Post: Huawei plans to spend up to ~11.7B over five years to boost compute for training and testing autonomous cars, with ~2.64B for autonomous driving R&D in 2026 — Co

Reuters: Huawei says its Ascend supernode based on the Ascend 950 AI chips will fully support DeepSeek V4, as DeepSeek launches a preview of its V4 model — Huawei Technologies said on Friday its Ascen

Gopika Gopakumar / Reuters: India's central bank cancels Paytm Payments Bank's banking license, after imposing business curbs over non-compliance with rules in January 2024 — India's central bank said

Hema Parmar / Bloomberg: Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding — Instacart co-founder Apoorva

Intel Corp. crushed analysts’ expectations as it delivered its first-quarter earnings results today, in a sign that its efforts to turn around its business under Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan could be fi

CNBC: Intel stock closes up 23.6%, its best performance since October 1987, as Intel shows signs of renewed growth amid the AI boom; the stock is up 124% YTD — Intel shares soared 24% on Friday, their

Intercom Inc. is expanding the role of its Fin artificial intelligence customer agent beyond customer support for the first time, positioning it as a sales assistant that operates across all stages of

SkyRL is a reinforcement learning framework from Anyscale that integrates vision-language models to enable agents to learn from visual observations and natural language instructions. The approach comb

Enterprise AI deployments are accelerating, but the velocity of change in models, tools and platforms is quietly creating a new and costly trap: costly failure to build for AI architectural replaceabi

This week's edition of my email newsletter (aka content from this blog delivered to your inbox) features 4 pelicans riding bicycles, 1 possum on an e-scooter, up to 5 raccoons with ham radios hiding i

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Lawmakers and lobbyists say the Trump administration has lobbied against legislation that would regulate AI in at least six Republican-led states — ‘I am disappo

Understanding and predicting motion is a fundamental component of visual intelligence. Although modern video models exhibit strong comprehension of scene dynamics, exploring multiple possible futures

Release: llm 0.31 New GPT-5.5 OpenAI model: llm -m gpt-5.5. #1418 New option to set the text verbosity level for GPT-5+ OpenAI models: -o verbosity low. Values are low, medium, high. New option for se

Jenna Russell / New York Times: Maine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town — Gov. Jan

Fossilized jaws reveal that enormous octopuses growing up to 19 meters long were top predators in the oceans during the Cretaceous Period, potentially making them the largest marine animals and invert

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs — Amazon.com Inc. and Met

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta inks deal to use more Amazon chips — Meta on Friday announced a deal to use Amazon-designed chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models. … - The new pact, which buil

Terje Solsvik / Reuters: Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 — Norway said on Friday

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past 5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher — Nvidia shares close

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 model is now available on Databricks' platform with governance capabilities provided through Unity AI Gateway, enabling enterprises to deploy and manage the model within their data in

Organizations racing to deploy agentic AI are discovering that raw model performance is only part of the equation — context engineering is the key to managing decades of unstructured, ungoverned data

Operational databases are designed to manage and power real-time transactions by handling high-throughput Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads. They differ significantly from data warehouses

We love to muse over how 'real' photography is defined here at The Verge now that generative AI is so prolific, and the World Press Photo competition might have the answer. The prestigious award celeb

Pudu Technology Inc., a leading developer of intelligent service robotics, has raised nearly 150 million in a new funding round. With this capital raise, announced Thursday, the company exceeded 1.5 b

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on building infrastructure for AI agents, balancing internal needs and the demands of customers like Anthropic, and more — This week