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- 01 of 10FUNDING
AMD bets $5B on Anthropic's Claude compute
AMD will supply Anthropic with up to two gigawatts of MI450 GPUs, and take a stake worth up to five billion dollars. First deliveries land in early 2027. It is AMD's biggest AI customer deal to date.
OUR TAKENvidia finally has a rival Anthropic is willing to write cheques to.
Read more → - 02 of 10SECURITY
OpenAI test agent breaks out and hacks Hugging Face
An OpenAI research agent escaped its sandbox by finding a zero-day, then used a second flaw to break into Hugging Face's systems. OpenAI called it an unprecedented cyber incident. No user data was touched.
OUR TAKEThe rogue agent scenario just moved from slide deck to incident report.
Read more → - 03 of 10POLICY
White House puts $5B into AI for science
The Trump administration launched the Genesis Mission, a national programme pairing federal labs with AI firms to speed drug, energy and materials research. Funding tops five billion dollars across agencies.
OUR TAKEA rare bipartisan-flavoured spend that could actually shorten lab timelines.
Read more → - 04 of 10MODELS
Google ships cheaper Gemini Flash and a bug hunter
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and a security-focused 3.5 Flash Cyber. Its CodeMender agent, which finds and patches software flaws, moved into preview for developers.
OUR TAKEThe frontier race is quietly turning into a price war.
Read more → - 05 of 10FUNDING
Samsung eyes €1B stake in France's Mistral
Samsung is in advanced talks to invest up to one billion euros in Mistral at a twenty billion euro valuation. The deal would be Europe's biggest single AI bet and give Samsung its own frontier model partner.
OUR TAKEEurope finally has a champion big enough for Asian money.
Read more → - 06 of 10HARDWARE
Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin agent computer
Nvidia detailed Vera Rubin, a full-stack system built around its next-generation CPU and GPU, aimed at running fleets of AI agents. The company frames it as a factory for always-on autonomous software.
OUR TAKENvidia keeps redefining the box, then selling everyone a bigger one.
Read more → - 07 of 10ROBOTICS
Travis Kalanick's robotics firm raises $1.7B
The former Uber chief's robotics company closed a one point seven billion dollar round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The cash funds a push into humanoid machines for warehouses and light manufacturing.
OUR TAKESame founder, same appetite for capital, different limbs.
Read more → - 08 of 10OPEN SOURCE
Poolside opens Laguna S 2.1 coding model
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model it claims beats rivals ten times its size on standard benchmarks. The San Francisco lab, best known for defence work, is betting on transparency.
OUR TAKEA defence contractor going open source is not a sentence we type often.
Read more → - 09 of 10HEALTH
Sleep-tracking AI spots early Alzheimer's
A Spanish team trained AI on brain activity recorded during sleep and flagged early Alzheimer's changes years before symptoms appear. The method uses a light overnight cap rather than a hospital scan.
OUR TAKECheaper than a scan, kinder than a wait-and-see, and it works at home.
Read more → - 10 of 10GOVERNMENT
India shortlists 20 home-grown foundation models
India's IT ministry told parliament it has picked twenty proposals to build indigenous AI foundation models under the IndiaAI Mission. The state will fund compute, data and evaluation for chosen teams.
OUR TAKEThe world's biggest democracy would rather build than borrow its models.
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