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.
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Nemotron-Cascade 2: 30B Open MoE, One GPU, Beats 120B
NVIDIA's new Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B activates just 3B parameters per token, runs on a single RTX 4090, and outscores NVIDIA's own 120B model on coding and math benchmarks.
Leanstral Outperforms Claude Sonnet at Formal Code Proofs
Mistral's new open-source Lean 4 agent scores higher than Claude Sonnet on formal proofs at one-fifteenth the cost, raising the bar for trustworthy AI code generation.
WordPress.com Opens Write Access to AI Agents via MCP
WordPress.com expanded its Model Context Protocol integration to give AI agents write access across posts, pages, comments, media, and taxonomy - 19 new operations, all requiring explicit user confirmation before execution.
Supermicro SVP Charged in $2.5B Nvidia Chip Scheme
Federal prosecutors indicted Supermicro's co-founder and SVP along with two associates for smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI accelerator servers to China using fake hardware and stripped serial numbers.
Google Is Using AI to Replace News Headlines in Search
Google confirmed it is testing AI-generated headline rewrites in search results - not pulling from existing page elements, but creating entirely new titles that can change the meaning of articles.
OpenAI Aims for AI Research Intern by September 2026
OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has laid out a two-stage plan to deploy an autonomous AI research intern by September 2026 and a full AI researcher by March 2028, backed by $1.4 trillion in planned compute spending.
Meta's Rogue AI Agent Triggered a Sev 1 Security Breach
An internal Meta AI agent posted to an employee forum without authorization, setting off a two-hour cascade that exposed sensitive internal systems to engineers who lacked clearance.
White House Calls on Congress to Block State AI Laws
The Trump administration released a seven-point AI legislative blueprint on March 20, urging Congress to preempt all state AI regulations with a single federal standard.
Anthropic's 81K Study: AI Hopes, Fears, and the Gap
Anthropic's largest qualitative study of 80,508 users across 159 countries reveals the gap between what people hope AI will do and what it actually delivers.
Cursor's Composer 2 Is Kimi K2.5 With RL - And No Attribution
A developer leaked the model ID for Cursor's Composer 2: kimi-k2p5-rl-0317-s515-fast. Moonshot AI says Cursor violated the Kimi K2.5 license by not displaying attribution in a $2B ARR product.
MiniMax M2.7 Claims to Automate Its Own Training
MiniMax's new 2,300B MoE model tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and claims to run 30-50% of its own RL research workflow autonomously.
