OpenAI Kills Sora, Disney's $1B Deal Goes With It
OpenAI is shutting down Sora six months after launch, killing a $1 billion Disney deal that was supposed to anchor the product's future.
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Jensen Huang Says AGI Is Here - The Evidence
Nvidia's CEO told Lex Fridman he thinks AGI has been achieved. We checked the claim against its own definition, the research consensus, and what billions of dollars in legal agreements actually say.
OpenAI Foundation Names Leaders, Pledges $1B
OpenAI's nonprofit arm announced a $1 billion grant commitment for 2026, hired a full leadership team including co-founder Wojciech Zaremba, and outlined four focus areas from disease research to children's mental health.
Ai2 Drops MolmoWeb - Open-Source Web Agent Beats GPT-4o
Ai2's MolmoWeb is a fully open-source web agent that navigates browsers by screenshot alone, beating GPT-4o-based agents at the 8B scale with weights, training data, and code all released under Apache 2.0.
LiteLLM Compromised: Credential Stealer in PyPI Package
LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 contain a credential-stealing payload that exfiltrates SSH keys, cloud credentials, and crypto wallets to a lookalike domain. The package has 97 million monthly downloads.
Alibaba's C950 - First RISC-V CPU with Native LLM Inference
Alibaba's T-Head division launched the XuanTie C950, a 5nm 3.2GHz RISC-V server chip that sets a new world record for RISC-V single-core performance and natively runs billion-parameter models like DeepSeek V3 and Qwen3.
USCC: China's Open-Source AI Now Runs 80% of US Startups
A new USCC report finds Chinese open-source models now dominate US AI startup stacks, with Qwen surpassing Llama in global downloads and Chinese models taking 41% of all Hugging Face downloads.
Tao: Ideas Are Now Free - Math's Bottleneck Has Moved
Terence Tao argues AI has cut the cost of mathematical idea generation to near zero, but verification remains as hard as ever - and our existing academic infrastructure wasn't built for what comes next.
OpenAI Seeks 50 GW Fusion Deal - Altman Steps Aside
OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy up to 50 gigawatts of fusion energy from Helion, the startup where Sam Altman holds a personal stake worth an estimated $375 million.
Anthropic Puts $100M Behind Claude Certification Program
Anthropic launched the Claude Certified Architect exam and invested $100M in its Partner Network - free for the first 5,000 partner employees, $99 after. Accenture is training 30,000 people.
CEO Asked ChatGPT How to Dodge $250M Bonus - Lost in Court
Krafton's CEO used ChatGPT to design 'Project X' - a corporate takeover strategy to avoid paying Subnautica creators a $250M bonus. A Delaware judge reversed everything and called it out by name.
Inside Amazon's Trainium Lab - How It Beat NVIDIA
An exclusive TechCrunch tour of Amazon's Trainium chip lab reveals how AWS is training Claude for Anthropic and now holds an $138B commitment from OpenAI.
