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Nous Research is finalizing a round led by Robot Ventures and USV that would value the open-source Hermes agent maker at $1.5 billion, built on a training network that skips traditional data centers entirely.
Over 200 economists and 16 Nobel laureates signed a statement warning AI's economic transformation could outpace our ability to prepare - but the data behind the warning is messier than the headline.
Clem Delangue says cost is pushing companies off frontier APIs and onto open models. A16z's own CIO survey shows enterprise dollars still moving the other way.
Nvidia has joined Gradium's seed round while holding a stake in rival ElevenLabs, tying its GPUs to both leaders in the race to own voice AI.
China's Ministry of Commerce is discussing restrictions on overseas access to Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai's most advanced AI models, mirroring the export control regime Beijing has spent years fighting.
OpenAI backed an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from mass-harm lawsuits, reversed course under public pressure, and watched the state sign a tougher audit law instead.
OpenAI and Google provided AI services to Singapore affiliates of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent - all three on the Pentagon's 1260H list of companies with alleged military ties.
The Commerce Department reclassified the UAE to Country Group A:5, giving NVIDIA, AMD, and Cerebras a clear path to supply AI chips and servers without per-shipment export licenses.
Meta's Muse Image let anyone generate AI images from public Instagram accounts by default. SAG-AFTRA and CAA pushed back. The feature lasted 72 hours.
Mistral's open-source Leanstral 1.5 scanned 57 repos and found five previously unreported bugs, including a silent integer overflow in a Rust zigzag decoder.
GPT-5.6 Sol is now live on Cerebras wafer-scale hardware at 750 tokens per second - roughly 10x faster than any GPU-based frontier model deployment in production.
Google now requires advertisers to disclose AI-generated ad content across Search, YouTube, and Discover - three weeks before EU AI Act Article 50 enforcement begins.
