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.
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Blackburn's 300-Page AI Bill Ends Fair Use for Training
A 300-page Senate discussion draft would declare AI training on copyrighted works is not fair use, sunset Section 230, and preempt 38 state AI laws.
Atlassian Cuts 1,600 Jobs to Self-Fund AI Pivot
Atlassian is laying off 10% of its workforce and splitting its CTO role in two to redirect cash toward AI development - but the company's own CEO pledged a hiring surge five months ago.
Cursor Ships Composer 2 - Its First In-House Coding Model
Cursor launches Composer 2, its first in-house coding model trained via RL on long-horizon tasks, scoring 73.7 on SWE-bench Multilingual at $0.50/M input tokens.
OpenAI Acquires Astral - uv and Ruff Join Codex
OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the startup behind Python's dominant uv package manager and Ruff linter, folding critical developer infrastructure into its Codex coding agent team.
Microsoft Weighs Lawsuit Over OpenAI's $50B AWS Deal
Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI and Amazon after a $50 billion AWS cloud deal may breach its exclusive cloud hosting agreement signed when it backed OpenAI with $13 billion.
Nemotron 3 Nano 4B: NVIDIA Edge Model Runs on 8GB
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano 4B packs a Mamba-dominant hybrid architecture, 262K token context, and 95.4% on MATH500 into a model that fits an 8GB Jetson Orin Nano.
NVIDIA Fires Up H200 for China After 10-Month Wait
Jensen Huang confirmed at GTC 2026 that NVIDIA has export licenses for multiple Chinese customers and is restarting H200 production, with 82,000 GPUs ready to ship after nearly a year of zero deliveries.
OpenAI's New Mini and Nano Slash GPT-5.4 Pricing
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and nano on March 17, bringing near-flagship performance at 70% and 92% lower cost respectively.
Hunter Alpha on OpenRouter - Is This DeepSeek V4?
A 1-trillion-parameter model called Hunter Alpha appeared anonymously on OpenRouter on March 11. Developers say it's DeepSeek V4 in disguise. The signals are strong but the precedent cuts both ways.
Tencent Plans to Double AI Investment to $5B in 2026
Tencent's 2025 results beat estimates, with the company spending $2.6B on AI last year and planning to at least double that in 2026 despite ongoing GPU supply constraints from US export controls.
Linux Foundation Raises $12.5M Against AI Bug Slop
Seven AI and cloud companies pool $12.5M through OpenSSF and Alpha-Omega to build tools that help open-source maintainers cope with a flood of AI-generated vulnerability reports they can't triage.
