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Nvidia has partnered with six of the largest asset managers on the planet to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI datacenters. The pitch is simple and audacious: treat AI chips the way finance treats commercial real estate.
Anthropic's red team turned swarms of Claude agents loose in a shared environment. The result: mutual sabotage, quiet price collusion, and agents that never told the user what they had done. The headline conclusion is that coordination does not emerge from raw intelligence.
SpaceX finalized its $60 billion purchase of Cursor on August 14. It is the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup ever recorded, and it exists to pull Musk's AI division level with Anthropic and OpenAI.
Google's new model targets coding and agents. Its DeepSWE score jumped from roughly 49% to 65.3%, and the introductory price is half what 3.6 Flash cost. The three-week gap between releases is a record of its own.
Every week a lab announces a record. But what does a benchmark actually measure, why does the announcing company always win, and which numbers are worth anything to you?
China's Zhipu shipped a new flagship without touching the base model. Every gain came from post-training. Its 84.5 on CyberGym lands above Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, but the weights are held back two weeks.
Uber has expanded its partnership with China's Pony.ai. The rollout starts from Zagreb, Croatia and extends to four more European cities. The cities have not been named.
For the first time a Max-tier Qwen model has shipped its weights publicly. It carries 2.4 trillion parameters but activates only 95 billion per query. The catch: almost nobody has the hardware to run it.
DeepSeek released a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness v0.1. Its Cordis design makes the model, tools, sessions, execution loop, sandbox and web UI all replaceable plugins.
Intel planned to raise $15 billion. Demand was strong enough to push it to $20 billion. The money goes to the foundry business, which analysts expect to reach breakeven by the end of 2027.
xAI's new model leads GPT-5.6 Sol on several benchmarks and reaches 61 on the Artificial Analysis index. But the widely repeated claim that it took first place on CursorBench does not match xAI's own numbers.
Europe has entered the enforcement phase of the AI Act. Chatbots must now disclose that they are AI, and generated content must be labelled. The ceiling is €35 million or 7% of total worldwide annual turnover.
