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South Korea Unveils $576B AI Chip Push With Samsung and SK Hynix
South Korea announced a massive 800 trillion won ($576 billion) semiconductor and AI infrastructure program, partnering with Samsung and SK Hynix to build new fabrication plants and strengthen domestic chip production capabilities.
Moonshot AI's 2.8T-Parameter Kimi K3 Model Launches on Telnyx Inference API
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, the first open-source model to reach 2.8 trillion parameters, is now available through Telnyx's inference platform with 1M token context and native vision capabilities.
Anthropic CEO denies advocating ban on open-weights AI models
Dario Amodei clarifies Anthropic's stance amid reports of potential US restrictions on Chinese open-weights models, supporting chip export controls instead.
Microsoft launches first cybersecurity AI model and agentic security platform
Microsoft shipped MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cybersecurity-specialized model, alongside Perception, an agentic AI platform that deploys red, blue, and green teams to automate vulnerability detection and remediation workflows.
Meta AI DMs launch globally on Threads after public feed testing
Meta is rolling out AI chatbot direct messaging to all Threads users worldwide, expanding beyond the five-country public feed test launched in May.
Safe Superintelligence secures multibillion-dollar Nvidia partnership for AI scaling
Ilya Sutskever's AI safety lab Safe Superintelligence has partnered with Nvidia in a deal worth multiple billions to access advanced GPU infrastructure and scale its superintelligence research.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 completes robot tasks 20x faster than humans
Anthropic's latest Claude model autonomously completed quadruped robot tasks in 9 minutes that previously took humans 181 minutes, demonstrating how scaling foundation models can unlock robotics capabilities.
Enigma raises $71M seed to build intuitive robot control interfaces
Israeli robotics startup Enigma secured $71 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital to develop human-robot interaction systems and foundation models.
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi-K3 Multimodal Model on Hugging Face
Moonshot AI has released Kimi-K3, a new image-text-to-text model on Hugging Face, featuring 2.8 trillion parameters and multimodal capabilities for conversational AI applications.
OpenAI research shows AI workers crossing traditional job boundaries
New OpenAI study of 800,000 ChatGPT messages reveals 43.5% of occupation-specific AI use involves tasks from other roles, with marketing and engineering work traveling furthest across organizations.
NVIDIA Deploys Vera CPU to Accelerate Next-Generation Chip Design
NVIDIA is using its Vera CPU across electronic design automation workflows to develop future processors, showing up to 1.5x performance gains on critical verification and simulation workloads.
EviDAG Tool Uses LLMs to Build Auditable Causal Graphs from Medical Literature
Researchers developed EviDAG, a browser-based system that leverages large language models to automatically construct causal directed acyclic graphs from biomedical literature with full evidence provenance.
Google Ships Gemini 3.6 Flash and Two New 3.5 Models
Google released three new Gemini models including the flagship 3.6 Flash, targeting different use cases from lightweight tasks to cybersecurity applications.
Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves DeepMind for Anthropic after nine years
AlphaFold co-creator John Jumper departs Google DeepMind to join rival AI safety lab Anthropic, marking a significant talent shift between frontier labs.
Over 30% of ArXiv Papers Now Read as AI-Written, Study Finds
A comprehensive analysis of 12,750 academic papers reveals that roughly one-third of recent ArXiv submissions appear machine-generated, with computer science leading at 65% and mathematics lowest at 0.7%.
Bloomy raises funding to bring AI tutoring to K-12 mastery learning
Y Combinator-backed Bloomy launched an AI-powered mastery learning platform for K-12 students, featuring adaptive curriculum and Socratic tutoring across math, English, and writing subjects.