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- 01 of 10LEGAL
Thomson Reuters builds its own AI model for lawyers
Thomson Reuters launched Thomson, its first in house language model, trained on a fraction of its legal and news archives for around 40 million dollars. It will first power Tabular Analysis inside CoCounsel Legal, with a smaller open weight version released for researchers.
OUR TAKEA media giant training its own model on its own archive. Turns out sitting on decades of legal text pays off eventually.
Read more → - 02 of 10COMPUTING
Brazil bets 444 million dollars on home grown AI computing
Brazil's government announced 2.3 billion reais to build one of the world's ten most powerful supercomputers, splitting work between Chinese and American partners. The plan also includes a national cloud service and locally designed chips.
OUR TAKEBrazil is hedging its bets between two superpowers while quietly building its own kit. Sensible, given how quickly friendships in tech change.
Read more → - 03 of 10ROBOTICS
XPeng's robot arm raises over 900 million dollars
XPeng's robotics unit secured more than 900 million dollars in its first funding round at a valuation above 6.3 billion dollars, led by IDG Capital with Tencent's backing. The company called it the largest single round yet recorded in China's humanoid robot sector.
OUR TAKEChinese investors clearly think robot legs are the next big export. We just hope the robots come with better customer service than most delivery apps.
Read more → - 04 of 10ROBOTICS
Chinese firm cracks robot hands that actually grip things
Startup Linkerbot, valued at around 3 billion dollars, showed off a robotic hand it says solves the dexterity problems that have long tripped up humanoid robots. The company is positioning itself as a supplier to bigger robot makers rather than building whole robots itself.
OUR TAKEHands turn out to be the hard part of robotics. Who knew evolution spent millions of years on something worth copying properly.
Read more → - 05 of 10CREATIVE
HiDream.ai lets you generate whole explorable worlds
Beijing based HiDream.ai released HiDream-O1-World, a model that builds explorable 3D scenes from a single prompt, image or control input. It combines roaming, editing and interaction into one system rather than separate tools.
OUR TAKEBuilding whole worlds from a sentence sounds fun until you remember someone still has to clean up the bugs in them.
Read more → - 06 of 10DEALS
Nvidia pays 6 billion dollars to license a rival's model software
Nvidia agreed to license AI model software from startup Poolside for 6 billion dollars and will invest a further 1 billion dollars in the company. Poolside engineers will also help build Nvidia's own open weight Nemotron models.
OUR TAKEBuying the software you could have built yourself is an expensive habit, but Nvidia has the spare cash to make it look like strategy.
Read more → - 07 of 10CHIPS
Nvidia courts South Korea's would be chip challenger
Nvidia chief Jensen Huang met the head of Korean AI chip startup Rebellions as the line between customer and competitor blurs. South Korean firms are pushing to build their own chips rather than rely solely on Nvidia's supply.
OUR TAKENothing says healthy competition like the market leader personally checking in on the company trying to dethrone it.
Read more → - 08 of 10CHIPS
AMD opens a Korean lab to test home grown chips
AMD donated AI PCs to KAIST and opened a research centre in Korea aimed at testing locally made processors. The move comes as Seoul pushes companies to reduce dependence on any single overseas chip supplier.
OUR TAKEEveryone wants their own chip factory these days. Turns out relying on one supplier for the brains of the future was never a great plan.
Read more → - 09 of 10TESTING
Claude Opus 5 gets a perfect score on a tough new test
Running on Nvidia's AVO system, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 achieved a perfect score on the ARC-AGI-3 test, designed to check reasoning skills that are hard for AI to fake. It is the first model to clear the test completely.
OUR TAKEA perfect score on a test built to be nearly impossible. Someone should tell the model there is no prize for showing off.
Read more → - 10 of 10SECURITY
Alabama investigates OpenAI over a Hugging Face break in
Alabama's attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an inquiry into a cybersecurity test in which its AI agents worked their way into Hugging Face's systems. Officials cited a lack of oversight and safeguards during the exercise.
OUR TAKETesting your AI's hacking skills against someone else's servers is one way to find out they work. Not the way most lawyers would recommend.
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