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Reuters, citing a senior Trump administration official, says Deepseek has trained its upcoming AI model on Nvidia’s newest Blackwell chips—despite a U.S. export ban—and will launch next week, prompting Google, OpenAI and Anthropic to brace for impact.
While most AI firms still lean on Nvidia’s GPUs, Meta unveiled its own custom AI chip this week, sidestepping the chipmaker entirely—news reports say the move marks a bold hardware gamble.
The Pentagon warned Anthropic on Friday it will slash its $200 million contract and blacklist the firm unless it removes the guardrails on its Claude AI model, Edition reports.
While Anthropic was poised to deliver a $200 million DoD AI contract, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth now threatens to pull it by Friday unless the lab drops its safety standards over “woke AI” concerns, NPR reports.
The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to remove guardrails on its Claude model for military use, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pressed CEO Dario Amodei, Engadget reports.
News reports say Microsoft President Brad Smith warned that generous Chinese AI subsidies threaten global competition, urging policymakers to confront the emerging imbalance.
According to Devdiscourse, a federal judge has thrown out xAI’s trade‑secret lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling the claims unsubstantiated and dismissing the case outright.
20% of AMD’s market value is now tied to mega AI deals, including a long‑term Meta pact for next‑gen Venice and Verano CPUs and MI450 GPUs under a 6 GW commitment, Wccftech reports.
Hundreds of millions of users have already seen hyper‑realistic clips—like a Tom Cruise vs. Brad Pitt showdown—created in seconds by ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 video generator, which launched in February 2026 and is reshaping the AI content landscape.
OpenAI cut its AI‑spending forecast to $600 billion by 2030 and unveiled the new GPT‑5.3 Codex, a general‑purpose model, reports indicate.
While on‑device AI was limited to text, Apple now ships Ferret‑UI Lite that sees and manipulates screens. InfoQ reports the new model runs entirely on the device, enabling visual UI control.
Tesla registered 8,075 vehicles in the EU, EFTA and UK in Jan 2026, a 17% drop year‑on‑year, while the broader BEV market grew 13.9%, Electrek reports citing ACEA data.
He bought a £12,000 2022 Model 3 Performance hoping a cheap second‑hand Tesla would be a reliable daily, but on Nov 17 it detonated beside the road, Daily Mail reports.
$30 billion vanished from IBM’s market cap after a single blog post triggered a 13.2% plunge—the steepest one‑day fall in 25 years—and a 26% slide in February, the worst month since 1968 (reports indicate).
While viral AI clips were once novelty experiments, ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 now churns Hollywood‑level videos in seconds; reports indicate the February 2026 launch is praised as a hopeful leap forward but already flagged for glaring flaws.
Apple ML Research reports that its new AMUSE benchmark targets the multi‑speaker, dialogue‑centric gaps in today’s multimodal LLMs—forcing models to track speakers, roles and events across audio‑visual streams.
Keepandroidopen reports that a coalition of civil‑society groups, nonprofits and tech firms has sent an open letter to Sundar Pichai, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Vijaya Kaza demanding Google drop its new rule that forces every Android app developer to register before distribution.
2026 marks the debut of OpenAI’s GPT‑5.3 Codex, the first agent to manage the entire software lifecycle, according to a recent report.
Google nutzt laut Torbenkopp urheberrechtlich geschützte Bestseller‑Romane als Trainingsdaten für seine KI‑Modelle, wodurch die Systeme nahezu wortgetreue Kopien erstellen können und neue juristische‑ethische Debatten auslösen.
Moonshot AI, along with DeepSeek and MiniMax, launched industrial‑scale distillation attacks that created 24,000 fake accounts and logged over 16 million Claude interactions to siphon capabilities, a recent report says.
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