Anthropic secures a massive $45 billion cloud deal with UK-based Nscale, locking in 460 megawatts of AI compute capacity at a West Virginia data center powered by Nvidia's next-gen Vera Rubin chips, set to go live in 2027.
Google is nearing a $1.5 billion deal to license technology from AI coding startup Mechanize, signaling an intensifying race among tech giants to dominate the AI coding agent market.
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a preview of its next-gen Qwen4 architecture boasting 125B parameters but activating only 6B per token, slashing compute costs by roughly a third while cleverly sidestepping US chip export restrictions — though its commercial licensing terms may put European users at legal risk under the EU AI …
Claude's desktop app now includes a built-in browser that lets the AI independently navigate websites, fill forms, and pull data without extensions, rolling out this week to Pro, Max, and Team plan users on macOS, Windows, and Linux — while keeping Claude completely isolated from users' personal browsing data.
A free 8-week LLM engineering course on GitHub is taking students from AI basics to building fully autonomous Agentic AI, with hands-on projects, local model support via Ollama, and total API costs of just a few dollars.
Tencent's WeChat Vision Team releases WeMM-Embedding, a family of multimodal AI models in 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes that claim top scores on MMEB-v2 and MMEB-v3 benchmarks, supporting text, images, videos, and documents, now publicly available on Hugging Face under Apache License 2.0.
Figure launches Index, the world's largest robot training dataset, boasting 264K app downloads, 16 million videos, and a $1 billion commitment to data and compute, aiming to power its Helix AI and deploy robots as an on-demand service.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, its most advanced speech-to-text model yet, delivering a 70% faster transcription speed, a Word Error Rate as low as 2.6%, and support for 85+ languages — now available in public preview for developers and enterprises.
Nvidia strikes a $6 billion licensing deal with AI startup Poolside, gaining access to cutting-edge coding models and over 100 researchers, as AI model prices plummet industry-wide with OpenAI slashing costs by 20% and competitors like DeepSeek charging as little as $0.66 per million tokens.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, its fastest and most accurate speech-to-text model yet, boasting 70% faster transcription speeds, support for 85+ languages, and smart filler-word filtering — now powering Android's Rambler feature and available to developers via Google AI Studio, threatening to disrupt market leader Wispr Flow.