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- 01 of 10KOREA
South Korea pledges $1 trillion to chip race
South Korea will invest $1 trillion over ten years in chip plants. This aims to boost memory chip production from Samsung and SK Hynix.
OUR TAKESubsidies the size of a small country, aimed at making sure the next country does not catch up.
Read more → - 02 of 10NVIDIA
Nvidia wants AI to run telecom networks
Nvidia unveiled a stack that lets carriers hand routine network operations to AI agents instead of engineers. The pitch is fewer outages, lower power bills and one less reason to hire night-shift staff.
OUR TAKEYour dropped call will now be apologised for by a model trained on a million complaint emails.
Read more → - 03 of 10SALESFORCE
Salesforce sends three shopping agents to retailers
Agentforce Commerce now ships a Shopper Agent, a Buyer Agent and a Merchant Agent. The first helps customers find products, the second handles wholesale orders, the third runs the store.
OUR TAKEThree agents to replace one shop assistant, sold as progress.
Read more → - 04 of 10OPENAI
Washington vets every early GPT-5.6 account
OpenAI confirmed that around twenty US partners have early access to GPT-5.6, with the government signing off on each one. Overseas developers are politely told to wait.
OUR TAKEA model so powerful you need a permission slip from Commerce to log in.
Read more → - 05 of 10STORAGE
Zilliz launches Loon for one-copy AI data
Zilliz created Loon, a new system. It lets different computer tasks use the same data copy, saving costs and speeding things up.
OUR TAKESaving a copy of a copy of a copy was always going to catch up with someone.
Read more → - 06 of 10OKTA
Okta brings AI agent rules to banks and hospitals
Okta opened a service that gives every AI agent its own identity, audit trail and expiry date. It targets banks, hospitals and other places where a rogue bot would be career-ending.
OUR TAKEFinally, an HR file for the thing replacing HR.
Read more → - 07 of 10CODING
DeepReinforce ships open coding model Ornith-1.0
Chinese startup DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-weight family of coding models from a 9B edge build up to a 397B flagship. The team claims it matches Claude Opus 4.7 on standard coding tests.
OUR TAKEAnother week, another free model that quietly does what the paid one does.
Read more → - 08 of 10EDUCATION
US picks first four schools for AI classroom grants
Digital Promise named four winners of a $20 million programme to build shared AI tools for American classroom testing. Partners include Georgetown and Penn, with grants meant to keep small districts from being left behind.
OUR TAKEA small fortune to make sure children are graded by the same model as the rich kids.
Read more → - 09 of 10GOOGLE
Google pushes Gemini 3.5 Pro release into July
Google delayed its Gemini Pro release to July. Reports suggest some researchers left the company.
OUR TAKEThe model is late because the people building it keep posting goodbye messages on LinkedIn.
Read more → - 10 of 10REFLECTION
Reflection AI bets $6.3B on Musk's chips
A company will pay about $6.3 billion to SpaceX over four years for the use of advanced chips to train its AI models. This is a record amount for such a deal.
OUR TAKEConfidence is renting a billion dollars of chips before you have shipped a single answer.
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