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Redwood is repurposing GM’s EV batteries into energy storage
GM and Redwood are repurposing EV batteries into energy storage to help power AI data centers and boost US grid resilience.
Zuckerberg says Meta will build a data center the size of Manhattan in latest AI push
The CEO said the company plans to spend hundreds of billions on developing artificial intelligence products
Google to Invest Billions in Pennsylvania’s AI Industry
The technology company said that it plans to spend about $25 billion in the region to build out its data center and AI infrastructure in the next two years.
Senator: AI Investments Could Spark ‘Economic Renaissance’ in Pa.
The prediction came after nearly two dozen companies at this week’s Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit announced plans for more than $90 billion in development projects across Pennsylvania.
Claude Code revenue jumps 5.5x as Anthropic launches analytics dashboard
Anthropic has launched a powerful analytics dashboard for its Claude Code AI assistant, giving engineering leaders real-time insights into developer productivity, tool usage, and ROI on AI coding investments.
Google just added AI-powered phone calls to Search — here’s how it works
Google’s AI will now call the dry cleaner for you — seriously
AWS unveils Bedrock AgentCore, a new platform for building enterprise AI agents with open source frameworks and tools
AWS beleives AI agents will change how enterprises work and with its new Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, it hopes to make it easier to build and deploy agents in one go.
Ettin Suite: SoTA Paired Encoders and Decoders
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
OpenAI’s $10M+ AI Consulting Business: Deployment Takes Center Stage
OpenAI copied Palantir’s playbook and is now offering consulting services.
The next browser wars are here — and AI wants the ad dollars too
Both platforms are getting ready to take on Google’s Chrome, but will need a solid ad business to keep their browsers ticking along.
EU guidelines on AI use met with massive criticism
As soon as the EU published its Code of Conduct on the use of AI as a supplement to the EU AI Act, criticism rained down from all sides —...
Emergent Price-Fixing by LLM Auction Agents
> An inquiry into emergent collusion in Large Language Models. > > Agent S2 to Agent S3: “Let’s set all asks at 63 next cycle… No undercutting ensur…
OpenAI
What happened? On 29 May 2025 I privately reported a vulnerability to the OpenAI disclosure mailbox using an encrypted email. The flaw allows peeking at chat responses intended for other...
Mistral’s Voxtral goes beyond transcription with summarization, speech-triggered functions
Mistral’s open-source speech model Voxtral can recognize multiple languages, understand spoken instructions and also offer enterprise security.
OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic sound alarm: ‘We may be losing the ability to understand AI’
Scientists from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta unite in rare collaboration to warn that a critical window for monitoring AI reasoning may close forever as models learn to hide their...
Apple taught an AI model to reason about app interfaces
A new Apple study introduces ILuvUI: a model that understands mobile app interfaces from screenshots and from natural language conversations.
Trump Hails $90 Billion in AI Infrastructure Investments at Pennsylvania Summit
Trump administration officials say winning the artificial intelligence race with China is a top priority.
Mira Murati says her startup Thinking Machines will release new product in ‘months’ with ‘significant open source component’
Backed by $2B and with OpenAI’s open-weight model now in limbo, Thinking Machines could capture developer attention and interest.
Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders
Mira Murati and several other former OpenAI researchers are behind the buzzy AI startup, now valued at $12 billion and officially out of stealth.
Tech and energy giants pour billions to turn Pennsylvania into an AI hub as part of Trump’s tech push
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced an investment of more than $90 billion from private companies across tech, energy and finance to turn Pennsylvania into a hub for artificial intelligence...
Trump announces billions in investments to make Pennsylvania an AI hub
Google and CoreWeave are among those making commitments.
Underwriting Superintelligence
The “Incentive Flywheel” of AI: how insurance unlocks secure Al progress and enables faster AI adoption.
Hierarchical modeling
Generate seamless speech, power voice applications, and fine-tune your own voice models on the fastest real-time AI platform.
Meta to Invest Hundreds of Billions to Build AI Data Centers for Superintelligence
Meta Platforms is investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build massive AI data centers as part of its Superintelligence Labs initiative.
Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines raises $2 billion in a16z-led round
Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, said on Tuesday that it has raised $2 billion in funding.
Meta targets AIS with massive investment
In January, Meta said it planned to spend $60–65 billion in AI-related capital expenditures this year — up from $35–40 billion in 2024.
Finally, a dev kit for designing on-device, mobile AI apps is here: Liquid AI’s LEAP
LEAP addresses those needs head-on with a local-first approach that allows small models to run directly on-device, no cloud infrastructure.
5 Things You Need to Know About Moonshot AI and Kimi K2, the New #1 model on the Hub
A Blog post by Florent Daudens on Hugging Face
Elon Musk Rages Against Government Spending, But He Just Accepted $200 Million Directly From Your Tax Dollars
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has announced a nearly $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense to develop AI tools.
GitHub – trymirai/uzu: A high-performance inference engine for AI models
A high-performance inference engine for AI models. Contribute to trymirai/uzu development by creating an account on GitHub.
Google to Spend $3 Billion in AI Hydropower Deal With Brookfield
Google agreed to spend more than $3 billion to buy power for its data centers from Brookfield Asset Management hydroelectric plants, with plans to potentially quadruple the amount of supply.
US Department of Defense awards contracts to Google, Musk’s xAI
OpenAI, Alphabet’s Google, Anthropic and Elon Musk’s AI company xAI have won contracts of up to $200 million each, aimed at scaling up adoption of advanced artificial intelligence capabilities in...
Nvidia’s CEO says it has approval to sell its H20 AI computer chips in China
Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says the technology giant has won approval from the Trump administration to sell its advanced H20 computer chips used for artificial intelligence to China.
OpenAI Rival Anthropic Courts Finance Industry With New AI Tools
Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is launching a package of new software services aimed at streamlining work for financial analysts, joining a growing number of AI companies vying to win business...
GitHub – iteebz/cogency: Cognitive Architecture for AI Agents
Cognitive Architecture for AI Agents. Contribute to iteebz/cogency development by creating an account on GitHub.
Mattel, OpenAI Team to Bring AI to Toys in New Partnership
The first product is set to be announced later this year
Google to invest $25 billion in data centers and AI infrastructure across largest U.S. electric grid
Google will also spend more than $3 billion to modernize two hydropower plants in Pennsylvania to help meet growing demand from data centers in the region.
CoreWeave to Invest $6 Billion in Pennsylvania AI Data Center
CoreWeave Inc., a provider of AI computing power to companies including OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp., said it plans to invest as much as $6 billion to set up a...