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A new oversight system lets federal evaluators review frontier AI models for up to 30 days before public release, but key technical standards will stay private, shared only with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
The chipmaker is taking a roughly 20% stake in the Texas energy infrastructure company powering its Stargate AI supercomputer, underscoring that grid capacity — not GPU supply — is now the biggest bottleneck in AI infrastructure buildout.
Unlimited Technology Systems disclosed that hackers accessed Social Security numbers, medical diagnoses, and insurance details for over 3.8 million patients during an October 2025 intrusion that took nearly a year to surface publicly.
The Claude maker is recruiting semiconductor engineers for a custom silicon team, with Samsung reportedly in talks as manufacturing partner, as demand for Claude strains its multi-provider compute strategy.
A judge added $567 million to March's $375 million jury award, ruling that Meta's platforms constitute a public nuisance that harms children and spills beyond the app into the real world.
The two Musk companies are building their own semiconductor supply chain, citing combined chip demand of more than 1 terawatt of compute — far beyond what the world currently produces.
Apple's best-selling laptop is now caught in the same AI-driven memory squeeze that has already hit budget hardware, with online orders slipping to a 2-6 week wait and higher-RAM configurations delayed even longer.
Samsung's new smartwatch lineup, unveiled at Galaxy Unpacked in London two weeks ago, reaches stores today with a shared Snapdragon Wear Elite chip, record-brightness displays, and Ultra2's first-ever dive certification.
Google is turning its Ask Maps chatbot into an agent that can order takeout, book hotels, find event tickets, and pull details from your Gmail and Calendar.
Meta has launched Muse Code, a terminal-based agentic coding tool powered by a new Muse Spark 1.2 model with a 1 million-token context window — entering the competitive market alongside Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot Workspace.
Google has overhauled its AI leadership: Hassabis becomes Alphabet Chief Scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over DeepMind operations, and Jeff Dean departs to co-found Discovery Loop.
Meta's first AI coding agent enters beta for macOS and Linux, putting the company in direct competition with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, with persistent background agents and a 90%-off contributor pricing tier.