NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a massive 550B-parameter AI model delivering frontier reasoning capabilities at 30% lower cost and 5x higher throughput than comparable open models, powered by cutting-edge hybrid architecture and a novel multi-teacher training method, with fully open weights released for enterprise adoption.
Canada launches 'AI for All,' an ambitious national strategy targeting $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 new jobs by 2034, backed by new AI safety legislation, a national literacy initiative, sovereign supercomputing infrastructure, and 12 international partnerships.
OpenAI is rolling out a powerful new 'Dreaming' memory system for ChatGPT that automatically synthesizes and updates user context in the background, giving Plus and Pro subscribers smarter, always-current conversations — with Free users set to gain access in the coming weeks.
The U.S. and Japan launch a historic $1 billion, five-year science partnership uniting 24 top research institutions to drive breakthroughs in quantum science, fusion energy, AI, biotechnology, and particle physics, marking Japan as the first international partner in President Trump's Genesis Mission.
A24's youngest director Kane Parsons, 20, slams generative AI as 'genuinely harmful' and a sign of 'cultural rot,' vowing to never use it creatively while planning to explore its societal impact in future films.
Slack's Workflow Builder is transforming workplace productivity, now powering over 3 million daily automations and delivering up to 35% time savings, with companies like Wayfair reclaiming 25,000 hours annually and Canva slashing meeting times by over 90% using AI-driven, no-code automation tools.
A new open-source AI hiring agent launches on GitHub, capable of parsing resumes, analyzing GitHub activity, and delivering scored, explainable candidate evaluations using either local Ollama models or Google Gemini for flexible, privacy-conscious deployment.
Miso Labs launches MisoTTS, an open-source 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model now live on Hugging Face, featuring voice cloning, highly emotive conversational speech, and built-in audio watermarking for safety.
PRIME-RL launches as a fully open-source reinforcement learning framework capable of scaling to 1000+ GPUs and trillion-parameter models, supporting major AI model families with asynchronous training, multimodal capabilities, and flexible multi-node deployment under the Apache 2.0 license.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising $7.4 billion in its first-ever funding round, valuing the company at up to $59 billion, with founder Liang Wenfeng personally committing $3 billion and Tencent eyeing a major stake, as China accelerates its push for AI dominance following DeepSeek's models shaking confidence in U.S. …